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Reason
Politics
Ilya Somin

Trump's Attempt to Deport Chinese Dissident Guan Heng is Part of an Awful Pattern

Guan Heng pictured on a background with images about immigration and detainment camps
Guan Heng. (Illustration: Adani Samat Photo: guanguanofficial/Youtube)

 

The Trump Administration's effort to deport Chinese dissident Guan Heng has rightly drawn widespread outrage and condemnation. Guan is a hero for his exposure of the Chinese government's oppression and persecution of the Uyghur minority, and he faces near-certain imprisonment or death if he is deported to China, or to Uganda (a Chinese-aligned state to which the Trump administration may be trying to send him). Legally, he has an rock-solid case for asylum.

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