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Ukrainian activists with their hands tied and plastic bags over the heads sit next to other demonstrators holding placards reading “GPO (General Prosecutors Office) is the place of tortures”, “Prosecutors torture people in Ukraine” during a protest in front of the General Prosecutors Office (GPO) in Kiev on August 17, 2016. Some hundred protesters gathered to protest against the pressure on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) – a new body created with the purpose of cleansing government of corruption, launching of which was one of the IMF and European Comission key requirements. On August 12 NABU officials accused GPO staff of “the first open unlawful confront”, saying that two of their officers, while being on duty, were illegally detained for 11 hours. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
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