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Interview on CBC Radio today with Guan Heng's lawyer, about his current status and about his story: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/china-whistleblower-asylum-9.7071354

Unfortunately Guan Heng is still in immigration detention pending appeal of the asylum decision by the US government, in the same overcrowded conditions as we have seen with others in detention

#freeguanheng #GuanHeng #HengGuan #china

U.S. judge grants asylum to Chinese whistleblower who got scooped up by ICE raid | CBC Radio

A Chinese whistleblower fled to the U.S. with footage of detention camps and requested asylum, only to be arrested by ICE agents and face deportation to Uganda. Now, five years after his saga began, his asylum claim has been granted.

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Uyghur Crisis Response Team Jan 4

We are greatly relieved to learn that the US government has dropped its plan to #deport Guan Heng, a #hero who took great risks to film concentration camps in which Uyghurs were imprisoned. Fearing that the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) would persecute him for releasing his video, he fled to the US and applied for #asylum. We hope he will receive it soon.

Recent news article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/us-drops-plan-deport-chinese-national-uyghur-rights-abuses

Older #longread with more details of #GuanHeng's extraordinary story: https://hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-filmed-uyghur-concentration