“I feel like I’m being watched even in the United States _ they have all of our information. They know where we live.” Members of China's persecuted Uighur minority living in the U.S. tell AP how they still fear Beijing surveillance.
March 8, 2020 GMT
He hadn’t heard from his family in western China for two years while he studied at a U.S. university.crackdown Even Uighurs who now live in the relative safety of the United States, where their situation has sparked bipartisan concern in Congress, say they still fear being monitored and worry that speaking freely may spur reprisals against family members in Xinjiang.
Last May, when she was briefly released, she called and told him not to speak out about Uighur issues. He later learned from relatives that she had contacted him at police insistence and was taken back into police custody the very next day. They described calls from Chinese government officials instructing them to “check in” at Chinese consulates. Some were told their Chinese passports would not be renewed and were offered one-way travel documents back to China. Several said relatives back home were visited by local police looking for information about family members abroad.
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