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– Three years on and no word on Douma's missing activists (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 12, 2016

The prominent Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Al-Khalil, Wa’el Hamada and Nazim Hammadi remain missing three years after armed men abducted them.
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