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– Turkey blocks International Human Rights Day protest (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 13, 2016

A coalition of local and international groups had planned to mark the anniversary of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a demonstration at Silivri prison’s gates, but authorities declared the protest to be illegal and sealed off roads leading to the prison.
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