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More Women Activists Arrested In Saudi Arabia

They're accused of suspicious contact with foreign entities

The Saudi authorities have arrested three more women rights' activists involved in the campaign for the right to drive and against the Saudi system of male guardianship. At least ten activists are said to have been detained over the past few days.

We try to find out more about a Tibetan shopkeeper who's been sentenced to five years in prison by a Chinese court for campaigning to preserve his mother tongue.

We go to Tanzania where residents of the town of Kigoma fear a possible spread of the Ebola virus from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

53 minutes

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Wed 23 May 201803:06GMT

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  • Wed 23 May 201803:06GMT