Prominent campaigner for Uyghur rights in Xinjiang barred from Kazakhstan

Dual US and Russian national Gene Bunin has documented the plight of Muslim minorities in China's western regions

A prominent campaigner who has documented the plight of Muslim minorities in China's Xinjiang region says he has barred from entering neighbouring Kazakhstan.

Gene Bunin, a dual US and Russian national, is best known as the founder of the Xinjiang Victims Database, which contains entries for nearly 25,000 people incarcerated, detained or unaccounted for in Xinjiang.