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Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in the US; and understanding the chemistry of cannabis.

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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Mon 9 May 202223:06GMT
BBC World Service

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