U.S. Grants Asylum to Chinese Man Who Exposed Uyghur Concentration Camps

Chinese national Guan Heng, 38, was granted asylum in the United States at a hearing on Wednesday in Napanoch, New York.

Guan was arrested in August during a deportation sweep, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was at one point planning to deport him to Uganda, but his fears of facing retribution for exposing Chinese human rights abuses against the Uyghurs drew national attention to his case.

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Guan took photos in 2020 of China’s abusive practices at the massive concentration camps it constructed in the Uyghur homeland, East Turkistan, which China refers to as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) or Xinjiang province. He conducted his research by driving alone to Xinjiang