Uyghur-supporting Hui Muslim Poet harassed, beaten near home

Hui Muslim poet Cui Haoxin, formerly a vocal critic of Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and Hui Muslims, has been severely beaten by an unidentified man after lying low for nearly three years.

The attack came nearly three years after Cui was held in criminal detention by police in January 2020 for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after he made posts on Twitter criticizing China’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.

Although he did not say it in so many words, Cui implied that the “unknown” man was actually sent to beat him by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to threaten and dissuade him from writing and posting on social media about Xinjiang or the Uyghurs.