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ethnic Kazakhs in China
August 19, 2019
What’s the Price of Freedom? Kazakh Activist Accepts Plea Deal
By Catherine Putz
Serikzhan Bilash was released with a fine and a promise to end his activism for ethnic Kazakhs detained in China.
July 29, 2019
Kazakh Xinjiang Activist’s Trial Begins With Relocation, Incitement Charges Linger
By Catherine Putz
A judge quickly agreed to send the case to Almaty; Serikzhan Bilash is charged with inciting violence against Chinese.
June 03, 2019
Xinjiang Camp Whistle-blower Sauytbay Seeks Asylum Elsewhere
By Catherine Putz
Sauytbay has reportedly left Kazakhstan for Sweden, still seeking asylum after blowing the whistle on China's Xinjiang camps.
May 01, 2019
Kazakhstan’s Xinjiang Dilemma
By Nazira Kozhanova
China’s crackdown on Muslims in its far west has become a domestic issue for the Kazakh government.
March 15, 2019
Kazakh Activist Complains of Pressure by Authorities
By Nataliya Vasilyeva
Under house arrest, Serikzhan Bilash says authorities made him sign blank documents.
March 11, 2019
Is This the Closing of the Kazakh Window Into Xinjiang?
By Catherine Putz
With the arrest of Serikzhan Bilash, a movement that gave the world a view into the Xinjiang crisis has an uncertain future.
March 06, 2019
The Kazakh Window Into the Xinjiang Crisis
By Catherine Putz
Kazakhs remain the most accessible window into the crisis in Xinjiang, but how long will that window remain open?
February 28, 2019
Meeting the Kazakh Diaspora
By Colleen Wood
Recent documentaries explore the contours of the Kazakh diaspora and challenge mainstream assumptions about migration and assimilation.
February 13, 2019
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Kazakh-Chinese Refugee
By Shannon Tiezzi
A Chinese-born Kazakh was fighting deportation in Uzbekistan. Now no one is sure where he is.
December 04, 2018
Central Asians Organize to Draw Attention to Xinjiang Camps
By Catherine Putz
Efforts in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to garner attention on the Xinjiang camps have grown, but still to little effect.
July 27, 2018
Sauytbay Trial in Kazakhstan Puts Astana in a Bind with China
By Catherine Putz
The complexities of international relations aside, is Kazakhstan going to choose China over Kazakhs?
June 14, 2018
Carefully, Kazakhstan Confronts China About Kazakhs in Xinjiang Re-Education Camps
By Catherine Putz
Astana can't afford to push Beijing too hard, even on behalf of its own citizens detained in Xinjiang re-education camps.
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