A middle-aged Uighur woman living in the Netherlands tells a Dutch paper that she was a source who leaked secret Chinese documents, which were the foundation of stories last month by NBCNews and journalists around the world, and now fears for her safety.
She told the Dutch newspaper that one threat said,"You will end up in pieces in the black Kliko in your front yard." A Kliko refers to the Dutch name for outdoor trash bins on wheels.Abdulaheb said she shared the secret Chinese documents with noted Uighur expert Adrian Zenz, a German academic now living in the U.S.
Zenz said he reached out to her after she tweeted one page of the documents, and that she then provided him with the rest.Zenz told NBC News he did not give ICIJ the documents, and ICIJ declined to name its source for the cache. Abdulaheb and her ex-husband approached Dutch reporters in a bid to seek safety from these threats through publicity. She did not name who passed along the documents to her.
A police officer stands by the road near what is officially called a vocational education center in Yining in Xinjiang, China, on Sept. 4, 2018.
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