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Human Rights Defender's story: Rizwangul NurMuhammad
'Speaking up is not only an act of resistance, but it is also an act of care and love for our kin.'
Rizwangul NurMuhammad is a human rights defender and a member of the Uyghur diaspora. She told ISHR how the arbitrary detention of her brother, Mewlan NurMuhammad, drove her to become active in the defence of human rights not only for her family, but for those of all persons whose family members had endured oppression at the hands of Chinese authorities.