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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 13h

The inhumane nature of the death penalty never ceases to reveal itself.

Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Egypt: one authority affiliated with the presidency approves rice exports for a fee, imports the wheat and licenses businesses in its own zones. Its profits reach the state budget only if the president issues a decree 🇪🇬 It's called state capture by one man, the president ⚡️

Farmers threshing wheat during the harvest season on May 1, 2026 in Segin Al-Kom, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. (Photo by Ali Moustafa/Getty Images)

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After 34 years defending civic space in over 100 countries, @icnl.bsky.social launched a US centre @uscnl.bsky.social 🇺🇸 A presidential memo lets the Attorney General recommend groups for designation as ‘domestic terrorist organizations’, exposing them to tax scrutiny and financial surveillance ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Conservatives in France make the same mistake as those in Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and the UK: to beat the far-right and populists they imitate them. And the far-right and populists continue to rise because the electorate feels the copy is legitimising the original ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘I sleep with all my clothes on.’ That is how a girl protects her privacy in a French juvenile prison ⚡️ Some children there spend 23 hours a day in their cells. France has increased the number of children it detains by 28% in three years. But: children are children!

In France, only three of the six juvenile detention centres are authorised to accommodate girls.
Photographer Alexandre Bagdassarian spent eight months following the daily lives of children in a prison system criticised for the long time spent in cells.
Published in The Guardian

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mediapart: Rassemblement National president Jordan Bardella had an antisemitic youth ⚡️ Writings from his time as a young member of Le Pen's party show an antisemitic pattern, according to the investigation. What we learn from it: the European far-right will always be the European far-right.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The UN Rapporteur on the occupied territories said Jews were called Muslims on the way to Nazi gas chambers. But ‘Muselmann’ were prisoners starved to near death. She apologised today. In 2022, she regretted a post claiming a Jewish lobby subjugated the US. Worrying pattern ⚡️

Screenshot of a post on X by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, from the account @FranceskAlbs, dated 28 September 2026 at 14:20. The post reads: I sincerely apologize. I misread the term 'Muselmann' (Muslim) used in Nazi camps for prisoners at the brink of death, wrongly inferring that the term antisemitism originally meant hatred of all Semitic peoples. In fact it was coined specifically to denote hatred of Jews. The post shows 1.1 million views, 1,300 replies, 1,000 reposts and 4,600 likes.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russia continues to hit purely civilian infrastructure and civilians: today, a Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On Sunday, a drone hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator. Srikes on data centres cut internet to 100,000 households around Kyiv. Aiming at maximum casualties: Russia is now targeting the networks that carry air-raid alerts to civilians ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Twelve years in power: Aleksandar Vučić swaps the presidency for the premiership today, tightening his grip on the state 🇷🇸⚡️ What doesn't change: 📈 Prices keep rising ✊ Reforms demanded by student protests 🇪🇺 The EU just blocked Serbia's next accession cluster

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Putin's propagandists failed to impose their worldview today in Switzerland ⚡️ Swiss voters rejected by nearly 70% a Putin-serving view of neutrality that would have barred sanctions on Russia. This should clear the way for Switzerland to lead on a rules-based international order 🇨🇭🌍⤵️

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Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Formula 1 raced through Baku yesterday, lending its broadcast to a government that holds 328 political prisoners. The perpetrators rule, the enablers pay, the accommodators watch the race. #F1 #AzerbaijanGP 🏁

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Days before @pace.coe.int meets, a Council of Europe member state is in crisis: more political prisoners than ever, independent media and civil society silenced, land borders shut since 2020 under a COVID-era quarantine. Time to put Azerbaijan on the agenda 🇦🇿

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The image is clear and poignant ⚡️ Whilst the world gathers in New York for the UN General Assembly, with many middle powers seeking closer cooperation, Trump plays suitor to Xi with full honours in Washington, DC. Another step in Trump's bromance with autocrats.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump invited Putin to the G20 in Miami ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cutting arms to Ukraine brings torture, sexual violence, disappearances, filtration camps, more deaths. We couldn’t be more supportive of Nobel Peace laureate, true human rights defender, @avalaina.bsky.social in her answer to @franceskalbs.bsky.social. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a question 🧐 The US froze ICC officials' bank accounts, cutting them off from the international financial system, because USD payments clear through US-controlled banks. Isn't it time for all international institutions to move their accounting and financials to the Euro?

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have to say, we're not surprised UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shows her true colours on Russia and Ukraine ⚡️ We remember President Zelensky was one of the first world leaders to condemn the 7 October attacks, whilst Putin blamed the US and hosted Hamas within three weeks.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10 Ukrainian children living in Crimean care homes in 2014 were given Russian citizenship, posted on adoption websites ⚡️ 12 years on, their whereabouts are unknown: today a Ukrainian human rights group asks the European Court of Human Rights to rule that Russia made them disappear ⚖️ #StayTuned

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Russian courts take 10 minutes to send someone to a psychiatric hospital. They approve over 99 per cent. 49 people held in psychiatric hospitals in political cases, most for opposing the war ⚡️ Russia's psychiatrists remain full members of the World Psychiatric Association WPA_Psychiatry #WCP26

A square infographic with a white background, titled Psychiatry as a weapon, with the subtitle A hidden face of Putin's war against Ukraine. It presents seven findings in brown and black. A grid of 64 dots, 49 of them filled, shows that 64 people were sent by courts to forced psychiatric treatment between 2017 and 2025, and that 49 were still locked in hospital at the end of 2025. A ring chart shows that 58% of cases are linked to speaking out against the war. Three bars show the age of those affected: 28 born after 1990, 19 born between 1970 and 1990, and 17 born between 1950 and 1970. A clock icon shows that court hearings last about 10 minutes per case and that 99% of requests are approved, out of up to 20,000 a year. Two icons show a double standard: critics are declared mentally ill, and people who are ill are declared fit for prison. An iceberg illustrates that known cases are the tip, with Memorial and OVD-Info banned, lawyers arrested, and around 48 teenagers in occupied Donetsk reportedly sent to forced treatment with no details known. A globe icon notes that Russian psychiatrists remain full members of the World Psychiatric Association, followed by the question How long? The logos of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development at Vytautas Magnus University and the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry appear at the bottom.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two men to guide humanity through AI, writes a Guardian editorialist 😵‍💫 ➡️ Oversized ego ➡️ Autocratic tendencies ➡️ An inner circle that profits from AI ➡️ A wish to remake the world in their image (through AI) No, Xi and Trump aren't fit for purpose!

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Candidates to lead the UN face pressure to talk about staff cuts, bureaucracy. @open-society.bsky.social's Pedro Abramovay says that many have fallen into that trap ⚡️ The debate should ask whether the UN can reassert multilateralism, the route through negotiation, international law and human rights

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The US has deported 25,447 people to 28 countries they have no ties to, under secretive deals with 35 governments. In December, Cameroon agreed to take US deportees. A week later it signed a US health programme worth nearly $400m 🇨🇲 Aid is now part of the deportation price ⚡️

Credit: Mélody da Fonseca / Forbidden Stories

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Political leaders head to #UNGA81 this week. There's something in the air we don't like: More and more voices speak of the UN needing to focus on basics. They argue peace 🕊️ and lifesaving aid 🛟 Human rights are left out, yet they are essential to both ⚖️ #StayTunes

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

France protects its secularism and public worship for every faith through the 1905 law. On that name, Marine Le Pen promotes a ban of Islamic headscarves and on public prayers. Yet, when Pope Leo XIV visits Paris, the prefect authorises public prayers and masses in Paris ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When a party, that wins an election in Berlin calls for an ‘electoral Intifada’ ⚡️ Antisemitism is on the rise across Europe. It can be on the right and on the left. And it can be apolitical, just hate. What antisemitism isn’t: an expression of solidarity with Gaza.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

‘The era of AI warfare has arrived’, writes @FT today ⚡️ AI accelerates every stage of the kill chain, from finding targets through to eliminating. Development and training processes behind these systems remain opaque. ➡️ A threat to human rights, requiring regulation.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The newsletter of the Swiss Helsinki Committee includes a piece by Bradley Reynolds on civil society and OSCE reform. He names Human Rights Compass among networks that could widen coalitions ahead of Civil Society Conference in Lugano this December 🌍 shv-ch.org/newsletter

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SHV-Newsletter - Schweizerischen Helsinki Vereinigung

Im SHV-Newsletter informiert die SHV über ihre Tätigkeiten und Projekte. Ausserdem berichten wir über die OSZE und ihren Einsatz für die Sicherheit in Europa und die Menschenrechte. Wir thematisieren…

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The US is co-opting the aid system along ideological lines ⚡️ Luke Lindberg’s appointment to lead @wfp.org is expected within days, amid the Trump administration’s aid cuts. Read @irwinloy.bsky.social's take in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

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What will Luke Lindberg mean for WFP and humanitarians?

A Trump pick could soon lead the World Food Programme. Here are key questions facing Luke Lindberg – and the humanitarian system itself.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A year after the US administration overhauled foreign aid, 90 per cent of LGBTQ groups worldwide have lost funding 🏳️‍🌈⚡️ Only 3 per cent of nearly 230 organisations surveyed now call themselves stable, according to @outrightintl.bsky.social new report: www.devex.com/news/90-of-l...

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’, said JD Vance about AI. He claims companies should look inward, not ask for global regulation. This deregulatory mindset is a threat to human rights and the world order ⚡️ #StayTuned for more on AI, big tech, small tech and human rights.

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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

President Aliyev calls @europarl ‘a nest of corruption’ and a body of Islamophobes. He uses the vocabulary of accountability, turns it around, pointing it at the institution that used that vocabulary against him ⬛️ Worth a thread 🧵⤵️ @operativmedia.bsky.social

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İlham Əliyev (@azpresident) on X

Avropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Europe’s most systemic security risk? 🌍 Climate change 🕊️ Military aggression ⚡️ Cyberattacks, terrorism Accelerating climate change is pushing us into uncharted security territory. Risks are evolving faster than institutional responses, leaving governments underprepared.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We join #ThisIsDemocracy ✌️ Coming together through Human Rights Compass, 150 human rights defenders and experts issued 50 recommendations on 61 themes to renew our collective commitment to further democracy and human rights. Check it out: progresschange.org/human-rights...

Word cloud of the themes indexed in the Human Rights Compass recommendations database, sized by how often each is covered. The largest are Environment and human rights, Women's rights, Human rights defenders, Civil society, United Nations, and Funding and resourcing of civil society, followed by Council of Europe, Freedom of opinion and expression, Environmental human rights defenders, Gender-based violence, and Rules-based multilateralism. Further themes include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Business and human rights, Access to justice, Discrimination, Treaty Bodies, Special procedures, Migrants, Asylum-seekers and refugees, LGBTQ, Minority rights, Indigenous peoples, Rights of the Child, Artificial intelligence and human rights, and Freedom of the press. Full database: https://progresschange.org/human-rights-compass-database

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On 28 February, Trump told Iranians "the hour of your freedom is at hand" 🇮🇷 In April, he claimed he had armed protesters. Iran researcher @hamidrezaaz.bsky.social warned this could justify more executions. Six months on, Iran is hanging men it calls “ground troops of a US-Israeli coup” ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saleh Mohammadi, 19, a wrestling champion, was arrested in connection with Iran's December 2025-January 2026 protests. He was hanged five weeks later ⚡️ He is one of at least 59 men Iran has executed since March on vague national security charges. Five were hanged in public. Iran today 🇮🇷

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sudanese women and girls falling prey to sexual exploitation in Egypt ⚡️ Trying to escape war and gender-based violence in Sudan, female refugees in Egypt are struggling to pay for food, medical care, rent. Egypt doesn't help them, dismantling of USAID, defunding of UNHCR left them without resources

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hamrat al-Wiz in North Kordofan changed hands again, captured by Sudan's army from the RSF on 6 September. Whoever holds the guns decides what happens to the civilians there who are left with no protection and benefit from no international attention ⚡️

Aerial view of a dense urban district in Sudan, rows of low-rise concrete buildings and narrow streets, with a large plume of dark grey smoke rising from a fire in the distance beyond the rooftops. A telecommunications tower stands in the left foreground; parked cars and water tanks are visible amongst the buildings below.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Culture is dissidence ⚡️ In Somaliland, journalist Abdiqani Hussein Abokor, also known as Baylood, has been detained since 29 August with no charges, days after interviewing Ismail Yusuf Abdi, also known as Jiheeye, a well-known local poet.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Military appeal court cuts sentences, reinstates soldiers convicted over acid attack on Andrie Yunus 🇮🇩⚡️ The two Indonesian National Armed Forces personnel keep their careers; the KontraS human rights defender they attacked keeps the injuries.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just a question 🤔 Putin ordered a 72-hour halt on strikes against Kyiv to coincide with Witkoff and Kushner's visit. The morning after they left, missiles hit the city again. Wouldn't the fastest route to “stopping the killing” be to rent a condo in Kyiv for the two of them?

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

About the way the AfD abuses of human rights to pretend it is defending human rights ⤵️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Progress & Change Partnerships is working with the @epd.eu on a new project to strengthen the resilience and sustainability of civil society organisations working on democracy, governance and citizen participation 💪 #StayTuned

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Council of Europe's own Secretariat commissioned a confidential legal opinion arguing that permitting involuntary psychiatric detention does not breach human rights of persons with disabilities 🇪🇺⚡️🇺🇳 The body meant to guard human rights is helping states write around them.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The relationship between tools like AI, our human nature, human agency, is a priority. The need for AI governance is acknowledged: delay only benefits the tech companies, their owners and enablers. — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today #HRC63

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The concentration of wealth and power in a small corner of humanity is creating tensions undermining stability & sustainability ⚡️ Across the world, growing numbers can't afford secure housing, healthy diet. Let’s be honest about where growth goes. — Volker Türk today #HRC63

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

African diplomats first to trial Beijing's new course on Xi's diplomatic thought ⚡️ Two universities in the Chinese capital have recently begun a course focused on Xi Jinping's views on diplomacy. A first cohort of African diplomats was welcomed in the second quarter of 2026.

A portrait of China's President Xi Jinping on display at an exhibition on the history of the Chinese Communist Party at Peking University, on 7 October 2022. © Jade Gao/AFP

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Less than 24 hours after the election results were published in Saxony-Anhalt, the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance (pro-Russian, far left) is ready to inaugurate an AfD Prime Minister (pro-Russian, far right) ⚡️

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today, a court sentenced Anar Mammadli to 13 years 🇦🇿⚡️ His crime: building Azerbaijan's only independent election watchdog. The Council of Europe gave him its human rights prize in 2014, whilst he served his first sentence for the same work. Since @coe.int leadership is silent. Release him ✌️

Campaign poster in dark navy, teal and pale yellow. A stylised, high-contrast portrait of Anar Mammadli fills the upper two thirds: a man in his forties with short dark hair, rectangular glasses and a moustache, wearing a dark suit jacket, shirt and tie, looking directly at the viewer. The website address www.endrepression-az.org appears in small capitals in the top right corner. Beneath the portrait, large yellow block capitals read "Freedom for Anar Mammadli", with the line "End repression in Azerbaijan" in teal capitals along the bottom.

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

History is full of brave people who took action to resist oppression and demand their rights ✌️ People who called out injustice, inequality, coming together to channel the universal values that underpin our humanity 🌍 — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today at #HRC63

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