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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11500
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EUROPEAN COUNCIL / (ae) human rights

Civil society critical of “tsunami of repression”

Strasbourg, 26/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - Meeting with Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe's human rights commissioner, the representatives of a number of international organisations painted an alarming picture of the situation of human rights defenders.

“We are witnessing a tsunami of repression the likes of which we haven't seen since the fall of the Berlin wall”, stated Antoine Bernard, director general of Worldwide Movement for Human Rights. He said that three “types of offensive”...

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