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Secret video footage sheds light on the HR situation in Eritrea

HRHF has received a link to a an in-depth news item that was shown recently on Al-Jazeera, and has since been made available on YouTube. The reportage was made clandestinely by journalists entering the country as tourists, and shooting the entire film on the most primitive equipment, including their own cell phones. Click on the link below and watch the film.

Published: December 9, 2009 Author: Al Jazeera

To watch film as shown on Al Jazeera recently on the current state of human rights in Eritrea:

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