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Activist Claims He Helped Get Refugee Status For Ethnic Kazakhs From China


Kazakhstan - Serikzhan Bilash, unregistered Real Atajurt activist. Almaty, 4 March 2020
Kazakhstan - Serikzhan Bilash, unregistered Real Atajurt activist. Almaty, 4 March 2020

A naturalized Kazakh citizen from China's northwestern region of Xinjiang says his activities as a self-exiled activist in Turkey helped five ethnic Kazakh Chinese citizens obtain refugee status in Kazakhstan in 2020.

Read the story from RFE/RL's Kazakh Service here.

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