‘A Daily Cloud of Suffering’: A Crackdown in China Is Felt Abroad

November 11, 2021

Mustafa Aksu was already sinking into depression when he learned of the successive deaths of his brother, uncle and two cousins back home.

Home was Xinjiang, the western region of China where the government has conducted a campaign of repression against largely Muslim ethnic minority groups, particularly Uyghurs like Mr. Mustafa’s family. The repression includes punishing those who had overseas ties, so Mr. Mustafa — then a graduate student in the United States — did not want to risk contacting his family to find out what had happened.

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