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The UN Human Rights Council opened its annual session on Monday, June 21, including examining the situation in Eritrea. The new UN special report, the Sudanese Mohamed Abdesalam Babiker, presented his first annual report on the country, condemning Asmara. It is every year in fairly diplomatic language that the conflict between Eritrea and the UN Human Rights Council takes place, and this time was no exception. Nevertheless, like his two predecessors, the special report painted a cruel picture for Eritreans: prisons…

The Prime Minister's rapporteur presented his conclusions in the debate on access to French public archives. A collective of historians and archivists had taken it on the law text IGI1300 which prevents automatic declassification of archives over 50 years old. Its opinion is advisory only, but it is usually very influential.…