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Eritrea: More than 30 Christian prisoners released

More than 30 Christian prisoners who had been jailed for their faith in Eritrea have been freed. Dr Berhane Asmelash, an Eritrean human rights activist and Protestant minister living in the UK, talks to Focus on Africa鈥檚 Bola Mosuro about how Eritrea鈥檚 government restricts religious freedom, and how the picture has changed in recent years.

(Photo: Enda Mariam Cathedral, Asmara; Credit: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

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