Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.

January 31, 2020

In a China increasingly hostile to its Uighur minority, Zulhumar Isaac’s parents tried for years to live as model citizens. Then one day they stopped answering her messages. In our cover story this week, Sarah A. Topol reports on the perilous game that Zulhumar played with the state to get them back.

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Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.

When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.

By Sarah A. Topol

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