Chinese national Guan Heng, 38, was granted asylum in the United States at a hearing on Wednesday in Napanoch, New York. A key question raised at the hearing was if Guan took his photos of the Uyghur camps as part of a premeditated plan to secure asylum in the United States. He unquestionably did immigrate to the United States illegally, instead of waiting for his claim to be approved and, by his own admission, there are rules he did not follow. “Their focus was mainly on how I arrived in the United States, so I told them the truth,” he said. The Uyghurs, alas, are still being persecuted by China despite Guan’s efforts, and the Chinese government still insists it did nothing wrong.