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Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

50 min•7 maj 2022

Max Pearson gets a first-hand account of how the minority Uyghur community in China staged some of the first protests against the all-powerful Communist Party in the 1980s. Plus, the young lawyer who won the landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights case in the US, the chemistry of cannabis and the personal stories of two veterans of the 1982 Falklands War.

PHOTO: A Uyghur yurt on the Xinjiang steppe (Getty Images)

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