When they called me, i recorded it with my other phone. Alim has shared recordings of those calls. Weve adapted a few to mask key details. We paid a visit to your family in xinjiang. My colleague collected their details. If you want to see them, i can set up a video call. Yes, please arrange that. I just want to talk to them and find out how they are. I wont ask about anything else. Ok, no problem. Ill arrange that for you. Alim was granted a very unusual video call with his mother. The officer connected them by holding two Mobile Phones facing each other. He used one phone to connect with my mother, and then he used another phone to contact me, allowing me to see my mother through his screen. When i saw my mother, i couldnt contain my emotions. It had been six to seven years since i last saw her, and it was an incredibly heart wrenching moment. There was a price to pay. The officer wanted something in return. Weve heard that the uyghur activists are planning to meet next month. We wan
they don t have food to eat because their only way of income and livelihood was coming from music, which has been banned now. so they re living in a very, very tough situation right now. in the 1960s barber blake hanna like many others of the winter rush generation came to the uk in search of new opportunities, but she faced constant racism and after eight years she returned to jamaica. she has been talking to the bbc s reporter. july 31st, 1968, the times newspaper printed a spread on barbara blake hannah. the night before, she d become the first black woman to report the news on british television. yes, to be in the times, old page, to be a journalist on television is the highest praise for a journalist to be. and i d achieved that.