Popular Uyghur Singer’s Whereabouts Unknown, Believed Detained in Xinjiang Re-Education Camp
2018-05-18
A Uyghur pop star in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), who had worked to bridge the divide between his ethnic group and the country’s Han Chinese majority, is missing and believed detained in a “political re-education camp,†according to sources.
Ablajan Ayup, 34, known as the “Uyghur Justin Bieber,†was taken into custody by a state security unit in the XUAR capital Urumqi on Feb. 15 as he returned from Shanghai, where he had traveled to perform as part of a music tour, a friend told RFA’s Uyghur Service, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The friend said that Ayup’s arrest followed a “brief detention and questioning in December 2017,†although he was unsure of why the singer, who is also known as “AJ,†had been investigated at the time.
Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/singer-05182018131924.html
The "Uyghurs" are the largely Muslim people in the Western part of China that China has had some problems with. Now this guy? I don't know. He looks pretty current.
