My Sister's Abduction: Rushan Abbas on the CCP’s Tactics to Control and Manipulate the Uyghur Diaspora

<p>Back in September 2018, just days after Rushan Abbas spoke at a Hudson Institute panel about the genocide of the Uyghurs, authorities in China arrested her sister and her aunt.</p><p>“Two of my closest living relatives left back home, they both got picked up on the same day from 1,400 kilometers away from each other … as retaliation for my speaking out,” Ms. Abbas says.</p><p>Her sister was sentenced to 20 years in prison.</p><p>Many Uyghurs abroad are being blackmailed by the Chinese regime and their families held hostage, Ms. Abbas says. She is the founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs.</p><p><br></p>