The Uighur Australian who got his family home after 1,338 days

Sadam Abdusalam, with his wife and two sons, has published a book on his campaign to get them out of Xinjiang [Courtesy of Sadam Abdusalam]

Sadam Abdusalam, an Australian man of Uighur heritage, has spoken out for the first time on the painful experience of being forcibly separated from his wife and child for 1,338 days after she was prevented from leaving China.

Then-pregnant Nadila Wumaier found herself unable to leave the Chinese region of Xinjiang in 2017 when the Chinese authorities seized her passport, derailing her plans to join Abdusalam in Australia.