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World Service,25 May 2021,53 mins

Roman Protasevich appears in video with bruises on face

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The dissident journalist was arrested after his flight was forcibly diverted to Minsk. In Peru, a brutal attack on a remote jungle village by the Shining Path rebel group leaves 14 dead. And the Russia parliament is preparing to bar members of "extremist" organisations from serving as lawmakers; a move intended to stop the jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from running in September's parliamentary election.

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