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

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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.

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