Six years later, Uyghur dentist held hostage in Xinjiang as wife and daughter wait in the U.S

Adalet Sabit and her daughter in front of the White House with Representative Christopher Smith, chair of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China, on September 21, 2022. [Curtesy of Adalet Sabit]

In 2019, the government of China warned Uyghur Ablimit Abliz that he would never see his family again. This dismayed his wife, Adalet Sabit, when she heard the news from him via a WeChat message, their only method of communication over the past six years.