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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/49874493
A Chinese national who exposed human rights abuses in Xinjiang has been granted asylum in the United States, after an immigration judge found he had a “well founded fear” of persecution if he returned to China.
In 2020, Guan Heng secretly filmed detention facilitates in the north-western Chinese region, where human rights groups say more than one million ethnic Uyghurs have been detained against their will.
Guan, 38, applied for asylum after arriving in the US illegally in 2021, but was detained in August as part of a mass deportation campaign by the Trump administration.
Plans to deport him to Uganda were dropped in December after his situation raised public concerns.
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Boy I would not want to be an asylum seeker here in 2026. Does he not have other options?
I mean, Snowden managed to survive just fine in Russia.
This is kinda similar but instead of USA --> Russia, it’s China --> USA.
He was granted asylum - his petition started in 2021 and was exactly as fucking awful an ordeal as you’d expect. But in terms of countries that can reasonably keep you safe from chinese reprisal… no, there’s not many options.
And deported in 3 … 2 …
He is a Tren de Antifa member
From a dictatorial communist regime to a dictatorial fascist regime.
Don’t worry, the fascist regime will ignore the judge’s ruling and deport him to China as soon as the chief felon is offered a pathetically meagre bribe or asspat from the Chinese government.
