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An estimated 1m Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were detained in “re-education” camps during a security crackdown in China from 2017 to 2019.
Belly in the dust, Guan Heng risked everything to film sites in China’s north-western region of Xinjiang. Once uploaded online his videos showed the world where Chinese authorities were detaining Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. In 2021 the first Trump administration declared China’s campaign in Xinjiang a form of genocide. A few months later Mr Guan fled China and made his way across the American border to seek asylum. But that made him a target of the second Trump administration, which detained Mr Guan in August for having crossed the border illegally.