neither the chinese foreign ministry nor shin—jang authorities have responded to the bbc‘s requests for man was a long way from his home in xinjiang, making good money as a fashion model in southern china. but this is him in february. his camera reveals his filthy clothes, and his left arm handcuffed to a bed. he is now clearly back in xinjiang. beyond the steel mesh on the window, a propaganda announcement drones away in the uighur language. despite the risk that it may bring him further punishment... ..relatives, including his uncle, who lives in amsterdam, say they have no choice but to release the video he sent them. translation: staying silent won‘t help him, either. the only thing i can do is to raise public awareness. it is our only chance to rescue him. the young model had already served 16 months injail, having been convicted of a drugs offence in 2018, although his family say he was innocent. upon completing his sentence, whatever relief he may have felt was short lived. soon afterwards, the police picked him up again and took him back to xinjiang, for, they said, a few days e

cameras up to a 1000000 we get locked up in shin jang region many without charge or trial booksellers from hong kong disappeared doubtless all of them dealt with under the same kind of security laws that are coming to hong kong all day and none of that you say necessarily spells the death of hong kong separate system of course it does . well you are talking about mainland china you're not talking about hong kong in hong kong you know we have a common law system and we have the presumption of innocence anyone arrested can apply for haiti as kopper's conviction on criminal offense needs a very high burden of proof in fact proving beyond reasonable doubt which when all the safeguards are here they're over we already implemented the international covenant on civil and political rights through our basic law and the bill of rights in hong kong so vocal has a different system we shouldn't alum our system to gether what mainland china system we have strong protection of person no data privacy so what you just said simply does not apply to hong kong where you say you have these common law safe

debate, but also from the response to last months sanctions of certain people in shin jen province on the -- in angn janginji province on the treatment of uighurs. they've already sanctioned them. sanctions don't actually have a meaning or any sort of definition in china at the moment. jonathan: how close are we to needing to choose between maintaining presence in china were maintaining presence in the united states? daniel: i think hong kong is where you are seeing that line drawn. right now, if you look at financial institutions, global banks that operate in hong kong and the u.s., especially with the sanctions levied against carrie lam and the others in the hong kong government friday by the u.s., banks have already begun rejecting transactions related to those 11 designated persons. for the moment, banks are choosing the u.s. over china until china give them reason not to. that flies in the face of the hong kong monetary authority saying that those sanctions have no legal right to be enforced in hong kong. you are seeing global banks ignore that and still follow the u.s. jonathan: what this underline