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Kamaltürk Yalqun holds the aluminium Olympics torch he carried at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the age of 17, on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Boston. The decade after the Games saw Beijing impose policies on his region of Xinjiang that split apart his family and Uyghur community. Today, he is an activist in the United States calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Games, which will see the Olympic flame returned to Beijing. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

For Uyghur torchbearer, China’s Olympic flame has gone dark

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

A portrait of Yalqun Rozi is seen atop a bookcase in his son and wife's apartment Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Philadelphia. For fifteen years, the literary critic had skillfully navigated state bureaucracies to publish textbooks that taught classic poems and folk tales to millions of his Turkic Uighur minority people in China’s far western region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Correction: China-Xinjiang-Banished Textbooks story

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press