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‘I really love my country’: Who was UAE activist Alaa al-Siddiq?

“I really love my country, so I want to represent it. And I want to see a change.”

Tributes have poured in for Alaa al-Siddiq, the prominent UAE activist who died in a fatal car crash in the UK on 19 June.

Here’s a closer look at who she was.
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