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Student leaders released

    NAIROBI

    The last group of Eritrean students being held in detention following student protests against a summer work programme have been released, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Quoting diplomatic sources in Eritrea, the BBC said five students were released from the desert work site in Galaalo.

    All five were reportedly members of the student union executive which was disbanded by the government when hundreds of students were arrested in August, following student disturbances prompted by the earlier arrest of the union's president, Semere Kesete. Semere was arrested after voicing criticism of government interference in university affairs and the summer work programme.

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