Anwer Ablimit, a renowned Uyghur musician, used to work for an oil extraction unit in Karamay. His nephew in exile lost contact with him in 2017. In 2019 he heard that Ablimit had been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Chinese government. The nephew does not know his whereabouts.
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During the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference on Wednesday, US Special Climate Envoy John Kerry dodged a question concerning China’s use of slave labor, saying the issue was “not my lane.”
Just as the world is coming to grips with the Xinjiang cotton war, there is another conflict looming on the horizon: the Xinjiang tomato war!