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My final dispatch from China: Reporting in China increasingly feels like reporting in North Korea. No one wants to talk to journalists and often times, like on this trip to Kashgar, I don’t try talk to people — for their own safety. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-muslims-xinjiang-north-korea-repression/2020/09/28/ad2fefd8-f316-11ea-8025-5d3489768ac8_story.html
I first went to Kashgar in 2006. I dug out the old photos before this trip. In 2006, the Idkah mosque was a vibrant center for the community (left.) This year it was closed or entirely empty, and I was required to register and be accompanied by a guide to enter
When I visited Kashgar in 2006, I saw lots of men with beards and women with their hair covered (left.) This month, neither (right, 2020 photos by Lorenz Huber)
