the government offer this kind of school to us for free. the climate of fear can be felt half way around the world. i lost contact with my family in 2017. that was the last time you heard your mother s voice? yes. and your father? yes. reporter: this 21-year-old came to the u.s. three years ago to get a university education. but gradually, his parents stopped sending tuition money and stopped calling him. then last september he made this desperate appeal on youtube. i have confirmed that my father is sentenced to nine years in prison and mom is in concentration camps. if both of your parents are detained, who is taking care of your 10-year-old brother? i don t know. if you could say something to your parents right now, what would you say? i hope they are alive. reporter: afraid to go home, he s been granted asylum in the u.s. many students are similarly
them. translator: all of us found we have something wrong with ourselves. the communist party and government offer this school to us for free. reporter: the climate of fear can be felt halfway around the world. i lost contact with my family in 2017. reporter: that was the last time you heard your mother s voice? yes. reporter: and your father? yes. reporter: this 21-year-old came to the u.s. three years ago to get a university education. gradually, his parents stopped sending tuition money and stopped calling him. then, last september, he made this desperate appeal on youtube. i have confirmed my father is in nine year prison and my mom in concentration camps. reporter: if your parents are detained, who is taking care of your 10-year-old brother? if you could say something to your parents, what would you say? i hope they are alive. reporter: afraid to go home,
around the world. i lost contact with my family. reporter: that was the last time you heard your mother s voice? yes. reporter: and your father? yes. reporter: this 21-year-old came to the u.s. three years ago to get a university education, but gradually, his parents stopped sending tuition money and stopped calling him. then last september, he made this desperate appeal on youtube. i have confirmed that my father is sentenced to nine years in prison and my mom is in concentration camp. reporter: if both of your parents are detained, who is taking care of your 10-year-old brother? i don t know. reporter: if you could say something to your parents, what would you say? just hope they re alive. reporter: afraid to go home, he has since been granted asylum in the u.s. many uighur students are similarly stranded here. they re terrified because they don t know want to do.
detentions to saying prisoners are getting vocational training. authorities took some diplomats and journalists on carefully supervised tour of some of these facilities. some detainees told journalists the camps reeducate them. all of us found we have something wrong with ourselves and the communist party and the government offer this kind of school to us for free. reporter: the climate of fear can be felt halfway around the world. i lost contact with my family in 2017. that was the last time you heard your mother s voice? yes. and your father? yes. reporter: this 21-year-old came to the u.s. three years ago to get a university education. gradually his parents stopped sending tuition money and stopped calling him. then last september, he made this desperate appeal on
men s voice, eastern european, maybe slavic. as for the victim, well, you heard the name by now. ken dolazar, the extremely wealthy local investor. my daughter called me just bawling and she told me, ken s been shot and he s dead. wow. matt considered ken dolizar to be one of his closest friends. they founded and coached a college hockey team together. he wasn t just a wealthy businessman, he was deeply concerned for the boys on the deep. i watched him pull out of wallet, slip money into kids pockets because he heard kids needed tuition money. couldn t buy their books. now his friend, their friend, was dead. and some of those kids just broke down and bawled. at the loft building in downtown salt lake, the news rocketed from floor to floor. after all, a couple residents including bianca ee s husband w doing business with dolizar. sounds like rubber necking,