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President Donald Trump of the United States, US has announced plans to meet
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one- on-one with the president of China, Xi Jinping, at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC meeting coming this
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November in South Korea. And according to President Trump, he had a phone call with President Xi to also pay a state
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visit to China early next year to discuss and find a possible solution to end Russia Ukraine war and the US issue
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with the Chineseowned social networking company Tik Tok that may face complete ban in the United States if agreement is
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not reached on December 16th, 2025. That aside, the United States government is
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currently being considered as a pseudo practitioner of free trade and free speech and freedom of association. Some
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observers accused US government of monopoly in the technology industry that it wants to remain superior in the
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social networking business. Hence, the US government is demanding to own and control Tik Tok, trying to use all
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manners of manipulative and deceptive ways to force bite dance to sell Tik Tok to Oracle and Silver Lake among others
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because of China government alleged control of Tik Tok algorithm and also allegedly having access to the data of
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US users. Interesting as it may be, in the aspect of trying to apparently abuse
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freedom of association, United States government under President Donald Trump has revoked and denied visa to
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Palestinian President Mimmud Abis and 80 other Palestinian authorities in order
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for them probably not being able to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting to speak out their
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minds against Israel war in Gaza and other Palestinian territory. other world
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leaders on Friday in a vote of 145 against five permitted the Palestinian
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president Mimmud Abbis to address the world assembly via video call next week.
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China as one of the biggest economies in the world has been on loggerhead with its major trade rival the United States
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since 2018 during the first tenure of President Donald Trump and its loggerhead with US has probably made
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China to maintain a strategic pro-Russian position on the war in Ukraine publicly claiming neutrality
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while allegedly providing essential economic and diplomatic support to Moscow. Reports indicated that Chinese
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officials privately admit that a Russian defeat would not serve Beijing's interests which center on its
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geopolitical rivalry with the United States. Also, China's state controlled
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media, Shinua News Agency, People's Daily, China Central Television, which
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include China Global Television, China National Radio CNR, and China Radio
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International Cree. Some of them always using the prominent social networking platform in China, the Waybo social
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media, are frequently and apparently always amplifying Russian talking points, such as blaming and accusing the
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO of expansionist agenda and the US for allegedly creating the conflict between
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Russia and Ukraine. on Tik Tok. As of September 2025, Tik Tok continues to
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operate in the US while its owner by Dance negotiates a deal with American
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buyers to avoid a ban. The social networking app, which has since become one of the most used social media
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platforms in the world due to its favorable algorithm that challenged older existing social media platforms
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for low distribution of users contents, was temporarily inaccessible in January
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2025 following a Supreme Court ruling, but was restored after President Donald
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Trump delayed the ban. A key deadline is set for December 16th, 2025 for a sale
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to be finalized. According to a close watcher, Tik Tok's US operations be
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severed from Chinese ownership. The Pecurium opinion positioned the case as one of new technologies with
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transformative capabilities. In truth, the case and the law it was ruling on represents more than that.
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Regardless of how the implementation unfolds, the legal ban on Chinese ownership of social media apps operating
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in the United States is an inflection point in the US China tech rivalry with implications that extend beyond national
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security, data privacy, and the first amendment. It signals a broader US
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strategy to counter China's technological influence across industries like semiconductors,
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artificial intelligence, AI, electric vehicles, and 5G. We learned that a
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framework deal has been reached that would give American investors control of 80% of Tik Tok with Chinese firms
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retaining 20% ownership. Proposed buyers include Oracle, which already hosts Tik
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Tok's US Data and private equity firms like Silver Lake. It would be recalled
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that in April 2024, the US Congress passed a bipartisan law signed by then
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President Joe Biden that requires Chinese parent company Bite Dance to divest Tik Tok's US operations or face a
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nationwide ban. The law was prompted by national security concerns over
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potential Chinese government access to American users data and its ability to influence the platform's algorithm.
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Wikipedia in the summary of the China US trade war indicated that an economic
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conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018 when US President Donald Trump
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began imposing tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the aim of forcing it to make changes to what the
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US has said are long-standing unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft. The first Trump
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administration stated that these practices may contribute to the US China trade deficit and that the Chinese
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government requires the transfer of American technology to China. In response to the trade measures, CCP
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general secretary Xi Jinpings administration accused the Trump administration of engaging in
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nationalist protectionism and took retaliatory action. Following the trade wars escalation through 2019, the two
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sides reached a tense phase 1 agreement in January 2020. However, a temporary
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collapse in goods trade around the globe during the coid9 pandemic together with a short recession diminished the chance
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of meeting the target. China failed to buy the $200 billion worth of additional
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imports specified as part of it. By the end of Trump's first presidency, the
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trade war was widely characterized by American media outlets as a failure for the United States. The Biden
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administration kept the tariffs in place and added additional levies on Chinese goods such as electric vehicles and
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solar panels. In 2024, the Trump presidential campaign proposed a 60%
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tariff on Chinese goods. 2025 marked a significant escalation of the conflict
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under the second Trump administration. A series of increasing tariffs led to
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the US imposing a 145% tariff on Chinese goods and China imposing a 125% tariff
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on American goods in response. These measures are forecast to cause a 0.2%
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loss of global merchandise trade. Despite this, both countries have excluded certain items from their tariff
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lists and continue to try and find a resolution to the trade war. In a statement through his truth social media
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network on Friday, President Trump said in quotes that I just completed a very
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productive call with President Xi of China. We made progress on many very important issues, including trade,
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fentinile, the need to bring the war between Russia and Ukraine to an end, and the approval of the Tik Tok deal. I
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also agreed with President Xi that we would meet at the Apex Summit in South Korea, that I would go to China in the
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early part of next year, and that President Xi would likewise come to the United States at an appropriate time.
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The call was a very good one. We will be speaking again by phone. appreciate the Tik Tok approval and both look forward
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to meeting at APEC. on US visa denial to Palestine President Mimmud Abbis. It
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would be recalled that Mimmude Abbas became the president of Palestine in 2005. And barely two years into his
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administration, the Hamas started governing the Gaza Strip after the Hamas took over the Palestinian Gaza Strip
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territory from the rival Fatra ruled Palestinian Authority PA on the 14th of
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June 2007 until the current Israel war in Gaza that started since October 2023
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during which Hamas appeared to have lost control of most of the territory. The administration of United States
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President Donald Trump announced in August 2025 it was denying and revoking visas for members of the Palestine
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Liberation Organization PLO and the Palestinian Authority PA before the
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United Nations General Assembly UNGA in September. The announcement was made in
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a statement released by the US Department of State. According to the statement, the Trump administration has
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been clear. It is in our national security interests to hold the PLO and PR accountable for not complying with
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their commitments and for undermining the prospects for peace. The Palestinian
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government responded and the Abvis's office called the visa decision astonishing and a violation of the 1947
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UN headquarters agreement which requires the US to allow access for foreign diplomats. Reuters International News
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Agency on Friday reported that the United Nations General Assembly voted on
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Friday to allow Palestinian President Mimmud Abbis to address the annual gathering of world leaders next week via
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video after the United States said it would not give him a visa to travel to New York. The resolution received 145
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votes in favor and five votes against while six countries abstained. It also
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allows Abbis and any other high-level Palestinian officials to take part in UN meetings or conferences via video over
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the next year if they are prevented from traveling to the United States. The US
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said last month that Abbis and about 80 other Palestinians would be affected by its decision to deny and revoke visas
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from members of the Umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization and the West Bankbased Palestinian Authority. US
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opposition to this resolution should come as no surprise, US diplomat Jonathan Shria said before the vote. The
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Trump administration has been clear. We must hold the PLO and Palestinian Authority accountable for not complying
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with their commitments under the Oslo Accords, some of them very basic, and for undermining the prospects for peace.
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Under a 1947 UN headquarters agreement, the US is generally required to allow
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access for foreign diplomats to the UN in New York. However, Washington has
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said it can deny visas for security, extremism, and foreign policy reasons.
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Abbis will also be allowed to appear via video at a summit opens new tab at the
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United Nations on Monday convened by France and Saudi Arabia that seeks to
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rally support for a two-state solution. Several countries are expected to formally recognize a Palestinian state
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at the meeting. The 193 member general assembly agreed on Friday by consensus
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without a vote that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, could appear via video at
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Bringing you the news in a more digital way. It may be true that there are certain
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things people do to others. They may not take the same from anyone. This assertion appeared to have come into
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play in the current administration of Nigeria President Bola Ahmed Tanubu who in the era of President Good Luck Abel
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Jonathan apparently used spin logic to always make false statements, incite the
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public against the government, destroy the reputation and personality of the then president Good Luck Jonathan. As
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you may know, spin logic in communication is a public relations campaign strategy that uses deliberate
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biased or misleading interpretations of events and information to influence public perception. In one of the viral
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videos between 2012 and 2014 in the history of politics in Nigeria,
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President Bola Ahmed Tanubu, who was then a chieftain of the defunct action congress of Nigeria, ACN, and later All
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Progressives Congress, APC, allegedly told a gathering of thousands of people that the then president Good Luck of LA
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Jonathan said Nigeria citizens should face death or starve to death. directly
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or indirectly saying that the then President Jonathan did not care about the well-being of his people. Till date,
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Tonubu has not shown any evidence to back up his claim that the people are hungry. President Jonathan said they
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should face death. And in some occasions, Tonubu called on the police not to attack protesters. Specifically,
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on November 29th, 2013, Tonubu tweeted via Twitter now exocial media platform
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that police do not attack protesters. Your children are involved. Your lives
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are involved. Your children's future lie here and urged millions of Nigerians to
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protest peacefully against the Jonathan le government. And in one of the protests, Occupy Niger allegedly
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sponsored by Bola Ahmed Tonugu. According to Reno, who was then a media
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spokesperson to Jonathan, the then president Jonathan's photo was placed on a coffin as a dead man and the coffin
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was labeled RIP, meaning rest in peace. Also in February 2011, as reported by
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Nigeria media, Tonubu described the then president Good Luck Jonathan as a
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drunkard sinking fisherman. A word that appears to falsely describe the then president Jonathan as a man that always
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take too much of alcohol to the extent of losing control of his behavior. But
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under the same tonubu who is now the president of Nigeria, the state security service SSS also known as the department
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of state service DSS has filed a court case against Facebook and exocial media
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companies over a post published separately on August 25th and 26, 2025
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by a well-known human rights activist and anti-government critic Samare and
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his online media Sahare reporters And in the fivecount charges, the DSS accused
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Saware of making defamatory or false statements against the person of President Bola Ahmed Tonubu for
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describing the president as a criminal after the president allegedly said there is no more corruption in Nigeria. In the
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legal battle, Omi Saware has also gone to court to stop Facebook exocial media
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from deleting his posts and sued the DSS for unconstitutional media censorship.
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The DSS in the suit marked FHC ABJC Cr
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484205ths also joined Meta, the parent company of
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Facebook and XC corporation as defendants at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The criminal charges filed and
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dated September 16th was filed by Muhammad Abu Bakr, Director of Public
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Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice after the DSS wrote to Facebook, Hex and Saware to delete the post and
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deactivate Saware account, but the parties appeared to have refused to honor the DSS requests. In the fivecount
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charge, Soware, the publisher of Sahare Reporters, was alleged to have made a
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false claim against the person of the president by referring to him as a criminal. Saware, the presidential
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candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in 2019 and 2023 in the
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charges accused of contravening the provisions of the Cyber Crimes Prohibition, Prevention, etc. Amendment
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act 2024. Count one of the charge alleged that Saware on or about August 25th did use
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his official exhandle page at Yellow Saware to send out a message tweet. The
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message is said to be this criminal at official Pabat actually went to Brazil to state that there is no more
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corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly. The
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message which he knew to be false was posted for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in the
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country especially among individuals who hold divergent views on the personality of the president and commander in chief
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of the armed forces of the federal republic of Nigeria. Bolar Ahmed Tonubu
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GCFR. The offense is said to be contrary to section 241B
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of the cyber crimes prohibition prevention etc amendment act 2024 among
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other counts. Meanwhile Saware also filed a lawsuit against the
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DSS and owners of Meta and Xcorporation not to delete his posts saying the issue
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is about principles not personality. Saware originating summon reads on
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behalf of our clientele saware. We have filed two fundamental rights actions at
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the federal high court Abuja against the state security service sss meta owners
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of Facebook and xc corporation formerly Twitter. These suits were filed to
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challenge the unconstitutional censorship initiated by the DSS SSS against Saware's accounts maintained
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with Meta and X. The lawsuit states categorically that this is about the survival of free speech in Nigeria. If
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state agencies can dictate to global platforms who may speak and what may be said, then no Nigerian is safe. Their
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voices will be silenced at the whim of those in power. Censorship of political criticism is alien to democracy. The
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Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in section 39 guarantees every
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citizen the right to freedom of expression without interference. No security agency, no matter how powerful,
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can suspend or delete those rights. Meta and X must also understand this. When
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they bow to unlawful censorship demands, they become complicit in the suppression of liberty. They cannot hide behind
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neutrality while authoritarianism is exported onto their platforms. Our
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prayers before the court are simple. That the SSS has no power in nor to censor Nigerians on social media. That
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Meta and X must not lend their platforms as tools of repression. And that our clients rights and by extension the
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rights of all Nigerians be fully protected against unlawful censorship.
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We call on all lovers of freedom, journalists, human rights defenders and
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the Nigerian people to stand firm. Today it is sore, tomorrow it may be you. This
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struggle is not about personalities. It is about principle and we shall resist
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every attempt to turn Nigeria into a digital dictatorship. signed to temokenov totem chambers Lagos
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Esquire on the 16th of September 2025. We had reported that as people of Nepal
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in South Asia country took to the streets in an unprecedented manner to protest an end to corruption and bad
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leadership in the country during the week after a short-lived ban on social media by the Nepalese government.
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Nigeria's secret police known as Department of State Security Service DSS
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appeared to have doubled efforts apparently to avert the unpleasant Nepal situation in the West Africa country. A
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situation where some politicians in the South Asia country tasted the bitter side of their citizens like never
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before. This the DSS has appeared to be on the neck of exo social media management to ensure the deletion of a
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post tweeted by the founder of Sahare reporters news media and a well-known
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anti-government critic Amle Saware that allegedly described the Nigeria president Bola Ahmed Tonubu as a
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criminal. A statement Saware made in reaction to the words of President Bola Ahmed Tubu over corruption in Nigeria
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while the president was on official visit in Brazil. The DSS said Saware misrepresented the president's statement
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and as such the supporters of the president are not happy over it. Hence the security service demanded a
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retracted publication from Omi Sare. But in a swift reaction
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declined and accused the DSS of always acting illegally. Hunger is increasing. They say what
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most of you don't know unemployment is a cause. They say yes we know in Lagos. Why are the people
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hungry? Let them face death. But again, I can't say it enough.
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That is what is in Abuja with the kind of leaders of today
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in all this in this election. The current way of governness
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inevitable. We have gathered at this hour in this
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place to put an end to the national corruption and corruption.
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We have assembled here today to bring a new day
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in Nigeria to our people. used to generate electricity. Today, the Nigerian people do you know
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that are distant and hardworking people
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bringing you the news in a more digital way as people of Nepal in South Asia country
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took to the streets in an unprecedented manner to protest an end to corruption and bad leadership in the country during
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the week after a short-lived ban on social media by the Nepalese government. Nigeria secret police known as
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Department of State Security Services. The SS appeared to have doubled efforts apparently to avert the unpleasant Nepal
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situation in the West Africa country. A situation where some politicians in the
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South Asia country tasted the bitter side of their citizens like never before. This the DSS has appeared to be
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on the neck of exocial media management to ensure the deletion of a post tweeted by the founder of Sahare reporters news
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media and a well-known anti-government critic Amy Saware that allegedly described the Nigeria president Bola
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Ahmed Tonubu as a criminal. A statement Saware made in reaction to the words of President Bola Ahmed Tonubu over
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corruption in Nigeria while the president was on official visit in Brazil. The DSS said Saware
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misrepresented the president's statement and as such the supporters of the president are not happy over it. Hence
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the security service demanded a retracted publication from Amy Saware. But in a swift reaction, Amayle declined
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and accused the DSS of always acting illegally. In a letter written during the week and addressed to the director
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general of the department of state services said I acknowledge receipt of your
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letter which you stealthily dumped with a security guard at the office of my attorneys in Abuja addressed to Abu Bakr
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Marshall. I find your horrendous attempt at holding an unwarranted brief for the president not only insidious but
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fundamentally defective, flawed in principle and absolutely unlawful. The
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State Security Service was not created as a security institution. The SSS, now
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self-styled as the DSS, began as the E Department Special Branch, an office
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established in 1948 and initially located in the Office of the Inspector General of Police. It was later renamed
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the National Security Organization, NSO. But on June 5th, 1986, the federal
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military government issued decree number 19, dissolving the NSO and unbundling it
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into three entities. The SSS for domestic intelligence, the NIA for external intelligence and counter
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intelligence, and the DIA for military related intelligence. While the NI and DIA largely kept faith with their
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mandates, the SSS under successive director generals has consistently acted bullishly, illegally, and unlawfully,
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serving as a ready tool of oppression for dictatorial regimes bent on breaking rules and repressing the rights of the
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Nigerian people. Thus, it is no surprise that you have once again resumed
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repressive hostility against me. In 1993, while I was student union
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president at the University of Lagos, policemen abducted me from the university gate during a peaceful
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pro-democracy protest. I was taken to your Lagos office after being driven
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around with my head tucked under a seat. From our low way in a koi, I was
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detained unlawfully for weeks at the notorious interc center near a koi cemetery. It took several days of
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lecture boycott to force your hand to release me without charges. Again, in
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January and June 1996, during and after my National Youth Service Corps in Yola,
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Adamawa State, your men detained me and later transferred me to the Nigerian Air Force Base where I was held in hand and
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leg chains for over a week before release again without charges. My NYSC
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discharge certificate has been denied to me to this day because of your unlawful detention. In August 2019, DSS agents
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invaded my hotel room, abducted me, and detained me for months over trumped up
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allegations of treasonable felony, money laundering, and cyber crime. It was your
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first attempt to falsely accuse me of insulting a sitting president. That failed as did every other false
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accusation advanced against me by the government through the SSS and police.
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During that period, you flouted several court judgments. Most disgracefully,
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your men invaded a federal high court presided by Justice Hijuku to abduct me
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even after bail conditions were met. To this day, you continue to refuse to obey
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two court judgments ordering the return of my confiscated properties, including several mobile phones and payment of
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damages. You and your ilk have dragged me through unscrupulous abuse and gross
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violations of rights for decades without remorse. In 2021, during the inglorious
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Boohari years, your agency propped up a sham group, the incorporated trustees of
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Global Integrity Crusade Network, to sue Sahara reporters and me on behalf of the criminally minded attorney general of
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the federation, Abu Bakr Malami San. They prayed the court to compel me and
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others to pay Malamy 2 billion naira for alleged trauma and emotional stress
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caused by Sahara reporters publications in July 2020. In his judgment, Justice
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Aiora Euatu awarded 100,000 naira against the litigants, affirming the
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argument of our attorney, Marshall Abu Bakr, that they had no right to sue on Malamy's behalf, just as you have no
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right to act as proxy for President Bola Ahmed Tanubu. Defamation, the judge
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reminded, is a personal tor. The AGF should have gone to court himself if he
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felt defamed. It is elementary that only the person defamed can sue. Therefore,
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your attempt to demand a retraction is an incompetent and unlawful attempt to hold the president's brief. Section 22
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of the 1999 Constitution requires the press to uphold the government's responsibility and accountability to the
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people. Section 39 guarantees every citizen the right to freedom of expression, to hold opinions, and to
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receive and impart information without interference. Article 9 of the African Charter on
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human and people's rights provides the same. Even in the UK, sedition and liel
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laws have been repealed as archaic relics of a bygone era. The UN human
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rights committee in general comment number 34 has declared a free uncensored
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media essential to democracy. Courts across Africa including Zimbabwe's
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Supreme Court and the African court in Isaakate versus Bikina Faso have ruled
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that criminal defamation is unjustifiable in a democracy. Nigeria's own court of appeal in Arthur Nwango
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versus state 1985 struck down sedition laws when Nweno was convicted for
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criticizing Governor Jim in Wabodo. The court held that sedition was unconstitutional and enimical to free
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speech. Justice Adekay in IGP versus
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asked how long Nigerians must suffer under colonial era public order ordinances designed to gag descent.
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Criticism is indispensable in a democracy. Freedom of speech includes the right to say what those in power
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find uncomfortable. Justice Olawa reminded us that citizens must defend their hard one freedom of
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expression and that those in public office must not be intolerant of criticism. Where boundaries are crossed,
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the remedy is civil liel, not unlawful repression. The DSS's desire to please
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the powers that be has always destroyed institutions while building strong men.
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But where are those strong men today? After your service broke laws and trampled rights to protect them rather
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than vilification, we should be commended for living up to our constitutional responsibility to hold
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leaders accountable. I am glad you made reference to my constant desire to seek
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change, the very drive that led me to run for the position of president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, even though
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my commitments and convictions predate partisan political endeavors. It is from
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that same line of conviction that I have adopted an uncompromising stance, ensuring that this country does not
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continue down the path of pedition. You have no business telling me how to criticize the president. But knowing the
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nature of your service, it is clear you have not learned your lessons. Let me state it clearly once again. The
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determination of the Nigerian people to reclaim their country from thieves in power is unwavering and it shall be
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achieved. Freedom cometh by struggle. Aluta Continuer Victoria Asserta yours
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