Leila Adilzhan, wife of Serikzhan Bilash, says she is afraid he will be turned over to Beijing.
A prominent activist campaigning for the release of ethnic Kazakhs caught in a sweeping crackdown on Muslims in China has been arrested in the Kazakh city of Almaty, his wife and a lawyer said Sunday.
The detention of possibly more than a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities into Chinese internment camps has been a touchy issue in neighbouring Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country of 18 million people. China is a major trading partner, and Kazakhstan’s state-restricted media had generally avoided reporting on the camps.
Aiman Umarova, a lawyer advising Atajurt, said she was on her way to Astana to represent Bilash in court and called the case “politically motivated.”
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