Abdujelil Emet, a Uyghur man and naturalized citizen of Germany, told the Guardian that a Chinese official made threats against his family over the phone after he sat in the public gallery of a parliamentary hearing on human rights. Following the hearing, Emet received a phone call from his sister still living in the Chinese province of Xinjiang for the first time in three years. Towards the end of the call, a Chinese official warned Emet that he needed “to think of [his] family while [he’s] running around doing [his] activism work in Germany.” Emet, who has lived in Germany for over two decades, volunteers for the World Uyghur Congress, a global organization of exiled Uyghurs that promotes “democracy, human rights, and freedom” for the Uyghur people. According to the Guardian, the warning made to Emet is part of a campaign by Beijing to quell criticism of the CCP policies that have led to the detainment of more than a million ethnic Uyghurs, and other Turkic Muslim minorities, within internment camps.