Kazakhs take Xinjiang protest to China’s doorstep

Thu, March 18, 2021, 4:40 AM

At Beijing’s consulate in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty, a small picket has persisted for over a month despite police intimidation. The demands of the mostly female demonstrators are simple: safe passage home for their relatives, who are missing, jailed or trapped in China’s crackdown on minorities in the farwestern Xinjiang region.