Guan Heng

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Guan Heng (born 1986 or 1987) is a Chinese immigrant in the United States who gained international attention in 2021 for publishing video evidence of the Xinjiang internment camps. [1] [2] In 2020, Guan had traveled to Xinjiang and gathered footage of the internment camps identified earlier in a 2020 BuzzFeed News report. [3] [4] [5] He then fled to the United States, first by flying to the Bahamas, then by boat to Florida. From there, Guan published his videos on YouTube under the username guanguan, and filed for asylum. [1] [6] In August 2025, Guan was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York, and faced the possibility of deportation. [7] The case attracted widespread media attention and U.S. representative Raja Krishnamoorthi publicly advocated for Guan's asylum. [8] In December 2025, Guan's lawyer announced that his deportation order to Uganda was dropped. [9]

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  1. 1 2 Qin, Amy; Buckley, Chris (15 December 2025). "He Recorded China's Detention of Uyghurs. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him to Uganda". The New York Times .
  2. ↑ Areddy, James T. (12 December 2025). "ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "Xinjiang footage sheds new light on Uyghur detention camps". Deutsche Welle . Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Buschek, Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, Christo (27 August 2020). "China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims". BuzzFeed News . Retrieved 16 December 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Video from Xinjiang provides fresh evidence of China's Uyghur repression". Radio Free Asia . 19 November 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  6. ↑ guanguan (5 October 2021). 寻找新疆集中营 - 城乡随拍[5/8] (Searching for concentration camps in Xinjiang - Footage of the city and villages) . Retrieved 16 December 2025– via YouTube.
  7. ↑ "Man who documented Uyghur camps in China may face removal from US after ICE arrest". The Guardian . Agence France-Presse. 15 December 2025. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  8. ↑ Feng, Emily (17 December 2025). "A Chinese man who filmed secret footage in Xinjiang risks deportation from the U.S." NPR . Retrieved 20 December 2025.
  9. ↑ Martina, Michael (19 December 2025). "US drops Uganda deportation order against Chinese dissident, lawyer says". Reuters . Retrieved 20 December 2025.
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