"For going on a decade now, the Muslim Uyghurs have been rounded up into massive camps and compounds (estimates are 1 to 3 million in detention) by direct order of Beijing, "reeducated," split apart, dispersed and suppressed. Knowledge of the human rights abuses has been tightly suppressed as well, through the Chinese government's all-encompassing intimidation campaigns of mass surveillance and censorship, police violence and more."
"Guan did all of this while knowing that the result would very likely be that he would never see his family again, as he would be forced to flee China in order to escape government persecution if he published his videos. And now, just over four years later, and despite a progressing asylum case, the United States and ICE are preparing to deport Heng Guan to Uganda, where he will almost certainly then be sent back to China."
Heng Guan secretly filmed detention camps and other abuses in Xinjiang after bypassing government firewalls, producing footage that aided Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the Uyghur genocide. He risked family separation and exile to reach the United States in order to share the evidence. The Chinese government has detained an estimated one to three million Uyghurs in camps, subjected them to "reeducation," surveillance, censorship, police violence, and suppression. U.S. immigration authorities arrested Heng in an ICE raid and are preparing to deport him to Uganda, where he would likely be returned to China, placing him at grave risk of persecution or death.
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