Zenz and his team spent months developing the search tool, which they hope will empower the Uyghur diaspora with concrete information about their relatives, after years of separation and silence.

Uyghur activists and rights groups say the men are innocent and expressed alarm over their possible deportation, saying they face persecution, imprisonment, and possible death back in China.

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The ongoing repression of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region has been one of the gravest human rights crises of the 21st century.

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