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EMD_0001
Local radio station in Russia cancels interview with LGBT activists after threats to editor
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Activists in Madrid protest LGBT rights violations in Russia
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EMD_0003
Echo of Moscow in Yaroslavl, a local affiliate of Echo of Moscow, Russia’s oldest independent radio network, cancelled an interview with LGBT activists after receiving homophobic threats, the station’s editor Lyudmila Shabuyeva said in a Facebook post:
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EMD_0004
Yesterday we received threats against our guests and ourselves if we proceed with our talk show about LGBT.
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EMD_0005
I’m cancelling the show.
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EMD_0006
According to independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the show featuring Yaroslavl’s LGBT activists was scheduled to air in the early morning of Wednesday, January 23.
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EMD_0007
The same activists had recently picketed the town’s main square to protest against the persecution of gay people in Russia, notably in the republic of Chechnya.
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EMD_0008
The station invited them to be interviewed about the protest and their experience of being openly gay in provincial Russia.
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EMD_0009
Shabuyeva’s initial announcement of the show attracted a torrent of homophobic abuse in the comments, including some from local officials, but that didn’t put her off, she told Novaya Gazeta.
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EMD_0010
However, late in the night before the show, Shabuyeva says, a stranger called her on the phone from an unidentified number and told her that if she were to proceed with the scheduled programming, her guests would be met outside the studio with baseball bats.
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EMD_0011
She could also face problems, the anonymous caller threatened.
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EMD_0012
Fearing for her guests’ safety, Shabuyeva cancelled the show and replaced it with another programming.
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EMD_0013
Similar pickets and rallies were held in other Russian cities.
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EMD_0014
The Motherland Calls on her children (the citizens) to fight xenophobia and repressions in modern Russia.
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EMD_0015
Let her call awaken you!
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EMD_0016
the sign says: RUSSIA’S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COULD FIND NO GAYS IN CHECHYA.
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EMD_0017
THEY ARE THERE: IN PRISONS AND IN GRAVES.
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EMD_0018
In April 2017, Novaya Gazeta reported that the authorities of Chechnya, a troubled Muslim republic in the south of Russia ruled by a former warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, was waging a brutal campaign of repressions against its LGBT population.
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E001
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EMD_0019
Recent reports said the purge has been intensifying, with at least two victims dead and dozens held in illegal detention.
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E001
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EMD_0020
Survivors who lost relatives and houses rest outside following the June 5 attack in the village of Naunde in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
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EMD_0021
Mozambican journalist Amade Abubacar was arrested on January 5, while reporting on a trend of violent attacks on small villages in Mozambique's province of Cabo Delgado.
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EMD_0022
Located in northern Mozambique, Cabo Delgado is rich with natural resources, such as ruby, charcoal and natural gas, found in the Rovuma Basin.
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E001
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EMD_0023
Some observers say the group coordinating the attacks intends to begin trafficking these resources.
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E001
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EMD_0024
Since October 2017, multiple attacks have been carried out in different districts of Cabo Delgado by what appears to be the same rogue group.
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EMD_0025
Many media have reported on the attacks, but state officials have been unwilling to comment on or confirm evidence in these cases.
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EMD_0026
In 2018, more than one hundred people were prosecuted together in relation to these crimes. Their trial is expected to end this year.
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EMD_0027
Amade Aoubacar works with the Mozambican Social Communication Institute and as a journalist with news site Zitamar and the local radio station, Nacedje.
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EMD_0028
The journalist was arrested and detained by Mozambican federal police on January 5, while photographing survivors of an attack in Cabo Delgado.
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EMD_0029
Amade was then taken to a military quarter of the Defense Forces of Mozambique in the district of Mueda, despite not being a member of the armed forces.
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EMD_0030
After a few weeks, he was transferred to a civilian prison to legalize his detention in Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado .
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EMD_0031
After he arrived at the civilian prison, Amade contacted the Mozambican Order of Lawyers and reported having experienced torture at the hands of Mozambican armed forces, who he says beat him and deprived him of food.
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EMD_0032
Many individuals and media freedom groups have spoken out in his Abubacar's defense, saying that his arrest and detention have threatened the exercise of free expression.
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EMD_0033
The Media Institute of Southern Africa, which monitors media rights and activities in the region, spoke out strongly against Amade's detention:
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EMD_0034
Abubacar’s prolonged detention by the military is a violation of his rights as well as his arrest under unconfirmed charges.
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EMD_0035
The Mozambican government is setting a bad precedent in the violation of free expression and access to information in the region.
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EMD_0036
Amnesty International also released a statement
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EMD_0037
Amade Abubacar is a respected journalist who was recording testimony from people who fled deadly attacks in Cabo Delgado when he was arrested by police.
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EMD_0038
This is the latest demonstration of contempt coming from Mozambican authorities and directed at freedom of expression and freedom of the press...authorities view journalists as a threat and thus they are treated as criminals.
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E001
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EMD_0039
For the first time in Brazil's history, there is an indigenous woman in the National Congress
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E001
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EMD_0040
Joenia was the first indigenous woman to have a Law degree in Brazil.
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E001
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EMD_0041
In 1997, Joenia Wapichana became the first indigenous woman in Brazil to obtain a law degree.
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E001
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EMD_0042
Eleven years later, she was the first indigenous person ever to defend a case in the Supreme Court.
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EMD_0043
And in October 2018 Joenia earned yet another distinction, becoming the first indigenous woman elected to the National Congress.
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E001
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EMD_0044
Her 8,491 votes elected her to one of the eight seats destined to her home state, Roraima.
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E001
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EMD_0045
The only time Brazil had an indigenous congressman was in 1986 — Mario Juruna, of Xavante ethnicity, was elected in 1983.
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E001
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EMD_0046
Born in a Wapichana tribe, Joenia moved to Boa Vista, Roraima's state capital, when she was eight years old.
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E001
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EMD_0047
She juggled her law degree with a job at an accountant’s office and, she said in a recent interview, graduated a year earlier than expected, fifth in her class, and amongst the children of Roraima's oligarchy.
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E001
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EMD_0048
In December 2018, already as an elected congresswoman, Joenia won a UN human rights prize for her outstanding achievement in promoting indigenous peoples’ rights.
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E001
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EMD_0049
The same recognition has been given to Nelson Mandela and Malala.
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EMD_0050
Joenia Wapichana defending an indigenous cause at the Supreme Court.
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E001
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EMD_0051
Joênia made history in 2008 when she argued a case brought by five indigenous groups to have their land officially demarcated as an Indigenous Territory, a type of tenure that confers indigenous peoples inalienable rights over their traditional homelands.
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E001
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EMD_0052
The court ruled in favor of the indigenous groups, who now are permanent possessors of the largest Indigenous Territory in Brazil — the lands of Raposa Terra do Sol, located in the state of Roraima.
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E001
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EMD_0053
Meanwhile, Jair Bolsonaro, still a congressman at that time, insulted an indigenous activist who had attended a public hearing at the Chamber of Deputies about the Raposa Terra do Sol demarcation.
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E001
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EMD_0054
You should go outside and eat grass to keep with your origins, Bolsonaro said on the occasion.
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EMD_0055
Shortly after his electoral victory in 2018, Bolsonaro brought up Raposa Terra do Sol again as an example of an indigenous territory whose economic potential should be exploited.
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EMD_0056
It’s the richest area in the world. You can exploit it in a rational manner.
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E001
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EMD_0057
And, from the indigenous’ side, giving them royalties and integrating them to society.
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E001
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EMD_0058
Ten years ago, with red painting on her face, in the tradition of her ethnicity, Joenia mixed Portuguese and her native language to remind the Justices that around three million US dollars circulated within those lands every year without that counting towards the Brazil's economy.
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2025-12-19 15:31:18
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E001
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EMD_0059
We are slandered and discriminated inside our own land, she said.
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E001
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EMD_0060
A formidable opponent
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E001
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EMD_0061
While she prepared to take her congressional seat as an opponent of Bolsonaro’s government, she told reporters at Folha de São Paulo, a national newspaper:
13.25
2025-12-19 15:32:25
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E001
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EMD_0062
Why does he persecute indigenous people so much?
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E001
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EMD_0063
What is the reason for such hate and appetite for retreat?
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E001
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EMD_0064
We have tourism, traditional medicine, a vast biodiversity in the Amazon.
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E001
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EMD_0065
We need to change this belief that we are a hindrance to development, that we are hurting A or B.
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E001
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EMD_0066
We must become protagonists ourselves as well.
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E001
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EMD_0067
Hitting the ground running
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E001
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EMD_0068
Brazil's Congress took office in February 2019 and Joênia began her term as the leader of her party, Rede Sustentabilidade (or Sustainability Network in Portuguese), in the Chamber of Deputies, the federal legislature's lower house.
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E001
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EMD_0069
Rede was founded by former Environment Minister Marina Silva, who despite losing three consecutive presidential elections is a household name in Brazil's environmental activism.
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EMD_0070
Following the dam disaster in Brumadinho, a tragedy that killed over 160 people and destroyed all life at the Paraopeba River, Joenia presented her first bill proposal, which renders environmental crimes that seriously affect ecosystems, human health, and lives, "heinous crimes", a type of offense that incurs in more severe penalties.
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E001
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EMD_0071
A day before taking office, the congresswoman told Folha de Boa Vista, a local newspaper from her home state, that the bill addresses private corporations’ carelessness with the environment:
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E001
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EMD_0072
We are concerned with the government's policies of weakening mechanisms that were created to protect a healthy environment, as foreseen in our Constitution, and the associated social impacts.
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EMD_0073
Among those mechanisms, for instance, there is the environmental licensing process, which helps curb the lack of accountability by companies and the low power of control by the State.
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E001
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EMD_0074
Speaking with the BBC, Joenia says her top priority in Congress will be the demarcation of indigenous lands.
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EMD_0075
If on one hand you have half a dozen ruralists, on the other there is a whole population of minorities that see themselves represented by me in there.
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EMD_0076
It’s a group that needs representation. The old politics is made out of people who only think about individual gains. I will bring collective values.
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E001
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EMD_0077
President Jacob Zuma visits Burundi on February 25, 2016.
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E001
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EMD_0078
Six students were detained on Tuesday, March 12, in Kirundo province in northeast Burundi for scribbling on pictures of President Pierre Nkurunziza in five textbooks.
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2025-12-19 15:47:35
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E001
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EMD_0079
The students were accused of "insulting the head of state."
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E001
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EMD_0080
The National Federation of Associations Engaged in Children's Welfare in Burundi reported that another student, 13, had been immediately released because he was a minor under the age of 15.
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E001
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EMD_0081
Three students were reportedly provisionally released on Friday, March 15, but, the remaining three were kept in custody.
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EMD_0082
The girls, aged 15 to 17, if found guilty, risk up to five years in prison for insulting the president.
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2025-12-19 15:49:39
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EMD_0083
Iwacu newspaper reported that families affected were deeply distressed.
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2025-12-19 15:50:18
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E001
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EMD_0084
Scribbling [on the president’s picture] is a punishable offense under the Burundian law, according to a Reuters report.
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2025-12-19 15:52:29
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EMD_0085
However, the age of the offenders may serve as a “mitigating circumstance” in these students’ trial.
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2025-12-19 15:53:45
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E001
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EMD_0086
As a teacher anonymously noted, the textbooks had not been checked for several years and are often shared by students, so it is difficult to know who marked them.
12.65
2025-12-19 15:54:06
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E001
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EMD_0087
A similar episode occurred in 2016, following the controversy over the president’s third term, where high school students scribbled on textbook pictures of Nkurunziza.
15.37
2025-12-19 15:54:30
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E001
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EMD_0088
Authorities took this as a serious insult and expelled hundreds of students from various schools across the country.
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2025-12-19 15:55:20
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E001
english
EMD_0089
Eleven students were charged with "insulting the head of state" and "threatening state security", although they were reportedly later cleared.
11.73
2025-12-19 15:55:58
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E001
english
EMD_0090
These actions were highly criticized.
3.65
2025-12-19 15:56:25
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E001
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EMD_0091
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a statement on June 29, 2016.
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2025-12-19 15:56:54
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E001
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EMD_0092
I am dismayed by continuing reports of the suspension and arrest of schoolchildren and students for having scribbled on pictures of the president in textbooks.
13.61
2025-12-19 15:57:48
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E001
english
EMD_0093
Nkurunziza, the ‘eternal supreme guide’
3.49
2025-12-19 15:58:42
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E001
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EMD_0094
Pierre Nkurunziza has been president of Burundi since 2005.
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2025-12-19 15:58:59
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E001
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EMD_0095
In 2015, he was controversially nominated by his party for a third term in office.
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2025-12-19 15:59:13
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E001
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EMD_0096
In March last year, Nkurunziza was named "eternal supreme guide" by his political party, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy.
12.61
2025-12-19 15:59:33
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E001
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EMD_0097
Evariste Ndayishimiye, CNDD-FDD’s secretary general explained why that title was conferred on Nkurunziza:
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2025-12-19 16:00:52
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E001
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EMD_0098
He is our leader, therefore in our party, no one is comparable to him.
7.49
2025-12-19 16:01:19
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E001
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EMD_0099
He is our parent, he is the one who advises us.
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2025-12-19 16:01:39
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E001
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EMD_0100
That is why I ask all our members to respect that because a home without the man (its head) can be overlooked by anybody.
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2025-12-19 16:01:57
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