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Abduweli Ayup

Abduweli Ayup is a writer, linguist, and teacher who was imprisoned in 2013 for opening Uyghur-language kindergartens in his homeland. Since 2019, has lived with his family in Bergen, Norway, where he runs the human rights nonprofit Uyghur Hjelp and teaches Uyghur to the children of the diaspora.

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