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- ↑ "Unsafe for dissenters and human rights defenders". Amnesty International. 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
- ↑ "Remembering on Marty's Day the forgotten Eritrean Hero Amanuel Yohannes/". www.ehrea.org. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
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