A prominent human rights activist and China critic based in Kazakhstan has been arrested by Kazakh police and charged with inciting ethnic strife, according to his lawyer
Serikzhan Bilash is the co-founder of Atajurt, an Almaty-based organization that brings attention to the crackdown on Muslims in China's western region of Xinjiang.Aiman Umarova, Bilash's lawyer, said that her client was arrested on Saturday night in Almaty and transferred to Astana, the Kazakhstan capital. Umarova added that Bilash was"roughed up" during his arrest.If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison. Kazakhstan authorities could not be reached for comment.
Bilash and other critics argue the facilities are re-education camps for political indoctrination and are an attempt to erase any Islamic presence from the region under a so-called policy of sinicization -- a process that attempts to assimilate minority cultures into the majority Han Chinese culture.Muslim minoritiesAtajurt has publicly lobbied for the closure of the Xinjiang camps and published accounts of those who had been detained and released.
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