After being detained for five months in the Broome County Correctional Facility, Guan Heng was transferred last Thursday to a facility in Batavia and was released this Tuesday after a judge granted his asylum application.
Guan Heng, a Chinese whistleblower detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August, was granted asylum by an immigration judge last Wednesday. After being transferred to another facility, he was released on Tuesday.
At a Jan. 28 hearing in Napanoch, New York, Ulster County Judge Charles M. Ouslander ruled that Guan was a credible witness and affirmed his eligibility for asylum after denying him bail in December. Guan was held at the Broome County Jail for about five months after he was arrested by ICE while they executed a search warrant for other tenants in his residence.
“We did not call any other witness except Mr. Guan himself,” Chuangchuang Chen, Guan’s lawyer, said in an interview with Pipe Dream. “The judge found that Mr. Guan testified credibly and he has very strong supporting documents.”
Guan fled China after allegedly filming the Chinese Communist Party’s “reeducation camps,” where over one million Uyghurs have been imprisoned since 2017. The U.S. government has classified this treatment as genocide since January 2021.
After filming the camps, Guan travelled to Hong Kong, before heading to Ecuador and then the Bahamas to publish the footage without fear of retaliation from the Chinese government. He released much of...
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