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.
[…]
People in China don’t know about the situation in the US.
I mean, I only know what it’s like cuz I’m inside the US. But if I hadn’t ever left China, I’d probably falsely assume the negative news about the US is purely CCP propaganda.
People like him are still making decisions on old, outdated info that “the US is a safe haven” which was sort of true, at least before trump got elected a second time.
It’s like you hear about this rebel base, then you go there to defect, but it’s too late the Empire already taken control.
So this dude is basically in a “Snowden” type situation, went against one government and now he can’t criticize his new host government.