And the gentleman in this video that you ve recorded and sent to us, he himself says that he s a chinese police officer? yes, he did. the long arm of the chinese state appears to be extending, reaching uyghur communities wherever they are. alim rejected their approaches, saying he refused to betray his people. we re told the vast majority of uyghurs do the same. their goal, to preserve their culture in the face of pressure from beijing many miles from home. newsnight put the allegations about the repression of uyghurs living abroad to the chinese embassy in london. in a statement, the embassy told us some of those who made allegations against beijing had fabricated their stories. the statement added.
In the uk or anywhere else in the world, are absolutely free to contact their families at home in china. and they also said this idea that uyghurs living in the xinjiang region are not under any pressure whatsoever and are free to lead normal lives. just to remind our audience again, the story is about the chinese and hundreds of thousands of uyghur muslims who are subject to mass incarceration that you found are being pressured abroad. how widespread is this? well, there s a landmark piece of research that we refer to in our piece. and it suggests that two in every three uyghurs living in the uk where the population is only around 400 people have been contacted directly by the chinese government and they have been pressured to spy on one another, to stop speaking to the media and to refrain from advocacy work. but when we start to look overseas, the picture looks a little darker. so if we look at turkey, for example, where the uyghur communicate, the community is much larger. it s aro