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– Award-winning Chinese human rights journalist: "This is a calling, not a career choice" (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 5, 2017

Zhao Sile, who has received three Human Rights Press Awards, has built her journalistic career on chronicling China's human rights defenders and their suffering.
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