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Two years after completing his sentence, activist Osama al-Najjar remains in detention (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News March 26, 2019

Osama Al-Najjar was arrested in March 2014 for posting tweets denouncing that his father had been tortured in prison.
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