This Man Says China Is Jailing His Relatives After He Met With US Officials Over The Crackdown On Uighurs
A Uighur-American man who met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his family members have been jailed in apparent retaliation for the meeting.Jawdat, 26, discovered the news about his aunt and her husband — who he said lived in Ili, in the northwest of the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang — through WeChat messages sent between two people he is close to.
“I’m feeling very sad now… they took them to a different city, they weren’t in Ili last night,” said a person who had heard directly about the cases of Jawdat’s aunt and uncle in the messages he shared. “Eight years.”Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims have been targeted by the Chinese government in athat has ensnared upwards of a million people in Xinjiang. The government says the camps are for education and vocational training.
“For the past few days I’ve been thinking about what to do. I don’t want to stop [public advocacy] because there’s no guarantee they’ll release anyone,” he said. “But my name has become huge back home now. People are getting in trouble because of my stuff here.”
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