U.S. Moves to Deport Man Who Filmed China's Camps

The United States is seeking to deport a Chinese asylum seeker who provided crucial video evidence of Beijing's mass detention of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group. The man, Heng Guan, fled China after secretly recording the crackdown in Xinjiang. His footage, showing guarded camps and security checkpoints, offered rare visual proof of a system human rights groups call a campaign of repression. Heng Guan applied for asylum in the U.S., claiming he would face imprisonment or worse if returned to China. However, U.S. immigration authorities have rejected his claim. Officials now plan to send him to Uganda, a country with no asylum agreement with the U.S. His legal team and supporters argue this puts him at extreme risk of being seized and sent back to China. Human rights advocates call the case a critical test of U.S. commitment to protecting witnesses of severe abuses. China denies all allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang.