BEIJING — The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says it is following the case of a Chinese-born Kazakh man who had been fighting attempts by Beijing to return him to China from neighbouring Uzbekistan and whose current whereabouts are unknown. Halemubieke had filmed a video from inside the transit zone at the airport in Uzbekistan’s capital, pleading for help, saying the Chinese Embassy there wanted him sent back to China. “We inform that he did not enter the territory of Uzbekistan and on February 9, 2019 flew out to Bangkok,” it said. The statement said Halemubieke had earlier flown from Thailand to Kazakhstan’s capital Almaty after transiting in Tashkent, but gave no details. Numerous Western nations have called previously on Beijing to close the camps and end persecution of its Muslim minority groups.

Source: National Post February 11, 2019 04:41 UTC