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– No holiday for Europe's rights abusers or their victims in August (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News August 28, 2017

Although August is traditionally associated with taking some time off, no-one appears to have informed Europe's worst rights abusers: they kept up their respective crackdowns on journalists, the internet and civil society throughout the month, as if they were trying to impress a new, nasty boss.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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