The Guardian
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My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on | Mahrang Baloch

My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on | Mahrang Baloch

No home in Balochistan is safe and enforced disappearances are widespread. Detaining me and other rights activists only confirms the justice of our causeIt’s 9pm and I’m sitting alone in my cell in block nine as I write these lines. I’ve been in solitary confinement for a year now. In fact, I turned 30 here.The silence has a weight to it, something that presses in on you the longer you sit with it.

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