After being detained in China, one LA resident began a Uyghur restaurant to educate through food
ALHAMBRA, Calif. (RNS) — Bright, young and ambitious, Bugra Arkin was similar to many other graduate students at University of Southern California. Arkin’s Uyghur heritage was little more than a footnote at a polyglot campus in one of America’s most multicultural cities.
Yet, when he visited Beijing prior to his graduation in 2017 as part of a school project, his ethnicity brought him undue attention. At 1 a.m., a knock came at his door, and he was questioned for hours by the police — an ordeal that shocked others on the school trip.
Thinking the authorities were no longer interested