Leave everything and stay here if this is your concern," Mijit's son-in-law Arslan Hidayat told As It Happens guest host Helen Mann. They face intense security and surveillance by Chinese authorities looking to crack down on extremism and separatism. Human rights organizations and the United Nations have estimated there are more than one million Uighur Muslims locked up in massive Chinese detention or "re-education" camps. Two weeks before he went missing, he underwent heart surgery, and his daughter told Adile told Radio Free Asia that she's worried about his health. "There is nothing official that has been sent by the Xinjiang authorities or the Chinese authorities — and this is quite typical," Hidayat said.

Source: CBC News December 31, 2018 22:07 UTC