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Added on the 04/03/2019 13:02:08 - Copyright : AFP EN
Several thousand protesters form a human chain near Lake Constance in Germany to protest against the mandatory wearing of masks and restrictions put in place to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. IMAGES
Thousands join a human chain stretching some 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to the border with Belarus. Three decades after their gesture of defiance against the Soviet Union, Baltic residents are once again linking arms in solidarity with protesters in Belarus. IMAGES
Belarusians form a human chain leading to a detention centre where protesters have been held. The chain is being formed in Kurapaty, a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, where a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. IMAGES
Thousands of pupils from secondary schools across Hong Kong hold hands and form a human chain to show their solidarity towards the pro-democracy protest movement. IMAGES
Thousands of people hold hands across Hong Kong in a dazzling, neon-framed recreation of a pro-democracy "Baltic Way" protest against Soviet rule thirty years ago. IMAGES
In the Philippines separatist rebels have reached a compromise with the government to end a long and brutal conflict. In Pakistan, was a 14 year old schoolgirl too much of a threat to the Taliban? A pint-sized rights activist was shot in the head this week, leaving the country in shock. Finally, it’s the Chinese Nobel Prize winner that authorities can get behind. Author Mo Yan gets the nod from Stockholm.
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