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Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to halt plans to extradite two Uyghur men to China, where the rights group said they are “likely” to face detention and torture. Aimidoula Waili and Nuermaimaiti Ruze – described as religious scholars by Amnesty – have been detained in the kingdom since November 2020 with no reason given for their arrest. The human rights organisation said they are at “imminent risk” of being forcibly repatriated to China, where a well-documented “genocide” against Muslim minority communities in Xinjiang – involving mass detention and indoctrination – has b…