Abuduwaili Abudureheman: Hong Kong denies detaining Uyghur student
BBC 2023-05-29 06:38:48 • 2 mins
By Joel Guinto
BBC News
Hong Kong has denied detaining a Uyghur scholar who human rights activists say went missing after arriving in the city earlier this month.
Abuduwaili Abudureheman texted a friend on 10 May saying he was being interrogated by police at the airport.
He has not been heard from since, his friends told Amnesty International.
The rights group has demanded Hong Kong reveal his whereabouts, but the government said such a call was slander and "groundless and unfounded".
The Hong Kong government also said there was no record that Mr Abudureheman had arrived in the territory or was denied entry.
The Chinese government has been accused of a brutal crackdown against the Muslim minority Uyghurs, which it denies.
