While Australia's Uighurs are still able to celebrate their ancient culture in music and dance, their compatriots in China's north-west Xinjiang province are ever more widely reported as being arrested without charge, sent to political "re-education" camps, or simply disappearing altogether.
In a region to the far west of China, whole families are disappearing.
COMMENT | Scores of Uyghur Muslims in Malaysia have forcibly been put on the plane and returned to China during the previous administration of Najib Abdul Razak.
On Aug 1, 2018, Bilal, a 27-year-old Uighur refugee, died in a Thai immigration detention facility, where he had been held since March 2014. Thai police and volunteers from a local NGO helped with funeral arrangements and Bilal was buried in an Islamic cemetery far from his family and homeland.
