U.S. judge grants asylum to Chinese whistleblower who got scooped up in ICE raid

Feb 3, 2026 - 11:00
U.S. judge grants asylum to Chinese whistleblower who got scooped up in ICE raid
A bespectacled Chinese man wearin jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt sits on a wooden fence with a forest behind him.

A Chinese whistleblower fled to the U.S. with footage of detention camps and requested asylum, only to be arrested by ICE agents and face deportation to Uganda. Now, five years after his saga began, his asylum claim has been granted.