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Turkmenistan

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Ak Welsapar

Ak Welsapar was born on 19 September 1956 in Mary, Turkmenistan. A journalism graduate of Moscow University, then of the Gorky Institute, he exposed malnutrition, ecological disasters and forced labour in the cotton fields in his investigations. Placed under house arrest in 1992, expelled from the Writers' Union and with his books banned, he left the country for Moscow, then settled in Sweden in 1994, where he runs the publishing house Gün with his wife.

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