GENEVA: A missing Syrian activist, a jailed scholar from China's mostly-Muslim Uighur minority and a group of Ethiopian bloggers were on Wednesday named as finalists for the Martin Ennals Award for human rights defenders.

Razan Zaitouneh began advocating on behalf of political prisoners in Syria in 2002, work that led to President Bashar al-Assad's government banning her from travel.

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