Critic Who Exposed China's Muslim Camps is Detained, Even Across the Border

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From the article:

For six days a week, every week, in a crowded office in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Serikzhan Bilash had been ringmaster of one of the most influential efforts detailing China’s internment of Muslim minorities....

The police detained him early Sunday in Almaty, the city in southeastern Kazakhstan where his organization is, and flew him to the capital, Astana, where he was placed under house arrest....

In the months before his detention, he warned that the Chinese authorities were trying to use their influence in Kazakhstan to silence his group...

The Chinese authorities have bristled at foreign criticism of the camps. First, officials denied their existence, then they said the camps were part of a training program for poor Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities to help them find jobs and resist extremist ideologies. On Tuesday, a Xinjiang official said the camps were “like boarding schools.”

To read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/world/asia/china-kazakh-activist-camps-xinjiang-muslims.html

We all know that intolerance is a universal behavior. In this case, the officially atheist Chinese Government puts theists in jail for the crime of theism.