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This recent undated screen grab taken from video from AFPTV on July 22, 2019 shows 33-year-old ethnic Uighur cameraman Shawudun Abdughupur during an interview with AFP in Auckland. - After brutal riots ten years ago that left 200 people dead, Shawudun Abdughupur and his wife understood they could have no future in China's Xinjiang province. Then 33-years-old, the ethnic Uighur cameraman made a wrenching choice to flee their homeland and strike out for a better, safer life 12,500 kilometres (7,750 miles) away in New Zealand. (Photo by Diego OPATOWSKI / AFPTV / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-politics-rights-espionage-NZealand,FOCUS (Photo credit should read DIEGO OPATOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

This recent undated screen grab taken from video from AFPTV on July 22, 2019 shows 33-year-old ethnic Uighur cameraman Shawudun Abdughupur during an interview with AFP in Auckland. - After brutal riots ten years ago that left 200 people dead, Shawudun Abdughupur and his wife understood they could have no future in China's Xinjiang province. Then 33-years-old, the ethnic Uighur cameraman made a wrenching choice to flee their homeland and strike out for a better, safer life 12,500 kilometres (7,750 miles) away in New Zealand. (Photo by Diego OPATOWSKI / AFPTV / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-politics-rights-espionage-NZealand,FOCUS (Photo credit should read DIEGO OPATOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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