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  • Ben Westcott
    Digital Producer, CNN Digital Worldwide

    Ben Westcott is a digital news producer for CNN Digital Worldwide in Hong Kong. He covers breaking news and foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific region with a focus on China and Australia.

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    Leaked Xinjiang documents reveal how China monitors and judges its Uyghur citizens

  • US-made CM-11 tanks (in background) are fired in front of two 8-inch self-propelled artillery guns during the 35th "Han Kuang" (Han Glory) military drill in southern Taiwan's Pingtung county on May 30, 2019. - The manoeuvres in Taiwan come after the US, Japan, South Korea and Australia kicked off operation "Pacific Vanguard" near Guam, bringing together more than 3,000 sailors from the four countries last week. (Photo by Sam YEH / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

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  • A group of Muslim protesters march with banners against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Banda Aceh on Decmber 27, 2017. There has been a growing backlash against Indonesia's small lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community over the past year, with ministers, hardliners and influential Islamic groups lining up to make anti-LGBT statements in public. / AFP PHOTO / Chaideer MAHYUDDIN (Photo credit should read CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images)

    Fear and horror as gay sex ban looms in Indonesia

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