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Morning Clicks | Missing Uygur writer presumed dead

Known for "Wild Pigeon", the short story which resulted in his arrest and sentence, writer and poet Nurmemet Yasin has been imprisoned since 2004 and is believed to have died in 2011, according to Amnesty International.

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Known for "Wild Pigeon", the short story which resulted in his arrest and sentence, writer and poet Nurmemet Yasin has been imprisoned since 2004 and is believed to have died in 2011, according to Amnesty International.

 

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