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Tohti awarded Sakharov Prize

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October 24, 2019

Economist and Uighur activist Ilham Tohti has been awarded with the EU's Sakharov Prize, which honors people who defend human rights and freedoms. Tohti is serving a life sentence in prison in China. DW spoke with his daughter, Jewher Ilham.

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