ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the role played by transnational advocates in gathering evidence, exposing the apparent crimes of the state, and promoting action against them, in the context of the People’s Republic of China’s practices targeting ethnoreligious minorities in its westernmost Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region since 2016. It argues that in a situation where repression renders effective domestic advocacy on behalf of victims nearly impossible, transnational advocacy assumes special significance, but also poses novel risks to advocates compelled to navigate complex international relations and political agendas. In some instances, such advocacy has become part of political agendas that threaten to corrode the ideas upon which they purport to rely.
