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STRASBOURG: The daughter of jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti received the EU’s top rights prize on his behalf on Wednesday, saying she did not even know if he was still alive. Jewher Ilham said she hoped the award of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize would help her father, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for “separatism” in a trial that …

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