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| | Prima-News |
 | | A new human rights defenders’ network, The Voice of Freedom, has been set up in Kirghizia with the backing from human rights organisation Freedom House and US International Development Agency USAID. |
 | | Some 40 activists, including lawyers, NGO workers, public figures and journalists from across the country and its capital combined their efforts to set up the network that aims to promote reform and improve human rights situation at local and national level, says the new organisation’s press release. |
 | | The Voice of Freedom sets out four main areas of priority it will work to improve: torture, unlawful arrests and detentions, peaceful assemblies, and also the issues singled out as most topical at local community level. |
| www.prima-news.ru /eng/news/news/2005/6/20/32667.html (197 words) |
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