Xinjiang Rights Campaigner Says Denied Entry By Kazakhstana

The United States says that Beijing is carrying out genocide against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic people in Xinjiang.

A prominent campaigner who has documented the plight of Muslim minorities in China's Xinjiang region said Monday he was barred from entering neighbouring Kazakhstan. The United States says that Beijing is carrying out genocide against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic people in Xinjiang, where experts estimate more than one million people are incarcerated in camps and jails. Central Asian Kazakhstan is one of several former Soviet states that have appeared to toe Beijing's line on Xinjiang. Thousands of Kazakhs have family ties to Xinjiang, where Kazakhs are the second largest Turkic group after the Uyghurs.