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Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 03:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
106 [3]
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The offices of an Ivorian human rights organisation, the Mouvement Ivoirien des Droits Humains (MIDH), were ransacked on Saturday by two armed men in plain clothing, MIDH sources told IRIN. According to the sources, the men went to the organisation's offices in the high-income Abidjan neighbourhood of Deux Plateaux a few minutes after the secretary arrived and asked her for an MIDH document issued on the previous day. They beat her up when she said she was not aware of the document, searched...read more [4]

The offices of an Ivorian human rights organisation, the Mouvement Ivoirien des Droits Humains (MIDH), were ransacked on Saturday by two armed men in plain clothing, MIDH sources told IRIN. According to the sources, the men went to the organisation's offices in the high-income Abidjan neighbourhood of Deux Plateaux a few minutes after the secretary arrived and asked her for an MIDH document issued on the previous day. They beat her up when she said she was not aware of the document, searched the premises for about 45 minutes and took some documents away.

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ICT, Media & Security [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/rights/14398 [6]

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