here she was able to reunite with her husband and daughter, all thanks to human rights lawyer serik john belash to see these camps, we have no access, it's hard to prove any of this. >> we collected 30,000 video testimonies so we have enough facts. so i call it genocide. >> are these police? >> yeah. >> reporter: but his work made him and his human rights group a target. >> police, police. >> reporter: we were there as police raided his office building. >> now we're kind of walking down the stairs quickly to get out. we really have no idea what they're looking for. >> reporter: belash was held for months, then put on house arrest, banned from any work that would criticize chinese policies, especially about those prisons. but they continue to attract attention. >> i was also threatened. we decided it is too dangerous to keep living in kazakhstan any more. >> reporter: searching for a safe haven, they turned west to turkey. this majority muslim country is home to an estimated 50,000 uighurs. many from xinjiang. >> asia over there, europe over there. >> reporter: but many say turkey is not as safe