The US on Friday dropped ‍its effort to deport a Chinese national who helped document Beijing’s alleged abuses against Uyghur Muslims to Uganda, the man’s lawyer told Reuters.Guan Heng, a Chinese citizen-journalist, ‍fled the US in 2021 after taking video of alleged concentration camps in China’s western Xinjiang region.He released the video after arriving in the US, where he applied for asylum.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Guan was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in August for illegally entering the country, part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. He remains in a New York state detention center.His detention and threatened deportation to Uganda has stirred controversy, not least because he helped document abuses in ⁠China that the US government during Trump’s first term deemed “genocide.” His supporters and lawyer say Guan faced almost certain persecution if deported to Uganda.The East African