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Kazakh police arrest activist who campaigned for human rights in Xinjiang
Source: Agence France-Presse
Kazakh police arrest activist who campaigned for human rights in Xinjiang
Agence France-Presse
Mon 11 Mar 2019 04.18 GMT
Kazakh police have arrested an activist who has campaigned for victims of China’s internment camps in Xinjiang, sealing his group’s office and taking its computers.
Serikjan Bilash, who has led a high-profile awareness drive centred on ethnic Kazakh victims of China’s crackdown in the region, was arrested in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty and flown to the capital Astana, his partner told AFP.
Bilash appeared on Sunday in a video filmed by Kazakh police confirming he was facing charges of inciting hatred, although it was not immediately clear what motivated the charges.
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The central Asian country, which shares a border with Xinjiang, has been on diplomatic tiptoes since China began to forcibly send ethnic Kazakhs to internment camps under its anti-extremism policy.
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Agence France-Presse
Mon 11 Mar 2019 04.18 GMT
Kazakh police have arrested an activist who has campaigned for victims of China’s internment camps in Xinjiang, sealing his group’s office and taking its computers.
Serikjan Bilash, who has led a high-profile awareness drive centred on ethnic Kazakh victims of China’s crackdown in the region, was arrested in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty and flown to the capital Astana, his partner told AFP.
Bilash appeared on Sunday in a video filmed by Kazakh police confirming he was facing charges of inciting hatred, although it was not immediately clear what motivated the charges.
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The central Asian country, which shares a border with Xinjiang, has been on diplomatic tiptoes since China began to forcibly send ethnic Kazakhs to internment camps under its anti-extremism policy.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/kazakh-police-arrest-activist-who-campaigned-for-human-rights-in-xinjiang
