Key Highlights
- “I would be prosecuted, I would be jailed, I would be tortured.
- All of that could happen,” Guan, 38, told The Associated Press in a recent call from the Broome County Correctional Facility in New York.
- A judge on Monday is to consider his appeal to remain in the United States, where he sought asylum after fleeing his homeland more than four years ago to publish video footage of detention facilities in China’s Xinjiang region. The Department of Homeland Security initially sought to deport him to Uganda, but dropped the plan in December after his plight raised public concerns and attracted attention on Capitol Hill.
- But his future remains unclear.
- Guan said the public attention has given him hope.
