A Kazakh human rights activist fears his sister could be repatriated to China after police in Kazakhstan arrested her at home on June 25.
Serikzhan Bilash, a naturalized Kazakh citizen who was born in China, is the founder of Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights, a civic group that has documented the detention and other human rights abuses of ethnic Kazakhs, Uyghurs, and other Turkic Muslims in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.
In 2019, Bilash was detained in Almaty, about 60 miles from the Xinjiang border in southeastern Kazakhstan, and released after agreeing to stop his Xinjiang-related activism.
Now living in exile in the United States, Bilash said that he believes the Kazakh authorities arrested his sister as a form of retaliation for his advocacy efforts, under pressure from China. …Â
Kazakh Authorities Arrest Family of Activist Who Spoke out Against Xinjiang Abuses
