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Amnesty Int'l: China is preventing global action in Myanmar

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Amnesty Int'l: China is preventing global action in Myanmar

Amnesty Int'l: China is preventing global action in Myanmar

Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, speaks to Becky Anderson about the state of human rights around the world from Myanmar’s military coup, to China’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, to Russia’s imprisonment of Alexey Navalny.


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