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Dear John,

Dilnur Enwer is a Uyghur from Xinjiang, China who lives in Montreal. Since her January 2019 arrival in Canada, she's received repeated calls from the Chinese embassy and unidentified people urging her to pick up an "important" document. Before contact with her relatives was cut off, a family member warned that the embassy would “catch” her and send her back to Xinjiang.

	Dilnur, a Uyghur living in Canada, has been targeted by Chinese authorities.

Dilnur has been afraid to speak of her parents’ detention in April 2017 out of fears for her own safety and the safety of her other relatives back in Xinjiang. 

She's not alone. Uyghurs living overseas are being harassed and intimidated by Chinese authorities. Around 400 people living in 22 countries have told Amnesty their stories, recounting intrusive surveillance, intimidating phone calls and even death threats. Their family in China are also targeted to suppress their activism abroad. 

No one should be forced to live in fear because of their religious beliefs or cultural identity. 

Call on the Chinese government to stop targeting Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim groups inside and outside China.

In 2017, China launched an unprecedented campaign of mass detention of up to one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim groups in Xinjiang.

Friends and relatives of those detained don’t know where their loved ones are. Now, they don’t even feel safe outside China. 

Help us keep up the pressure on China to end the harassment and abuse.

Together, we can expose what China is trying to keep secret. Thank you for speaking out to end these horrific human rights abuses. 

Yours in solidarity, 

Hilary Homes
Crisis Campaigner
Amnesty International Canada


P.S. In late 2019, leaked documents revealed the global scope of China's campaign against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others originally from Xinjiang, with Chinese embassies and consulates abroad collecting information about members of these groups. Please urge Chinese authorities to stop this Islamophobic campaign.

 

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