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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10048

5 January 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/russia

04/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 4 January, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek called for the immediate release of Ludmila Alexeyeva, a member of “Memorial” and winner of the Sakharov Prize in 2009, and of several other human rights activists, detained at a protest in Moscow on New Year's Eve. “I am profoundly and personally touched when I think that this very respectful 82-year old woman spent the night of New Year's Eve under Russian arrest. I call on the Russian...

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