Electricity blackouts affected the right to health and education. Access to food and medicines supplied by the state deteriorated significantly. Systematic repression of dissent and peaceful assembly continued. Arbitrary detentions persisted. Denial of human rights, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment were commonplace in prisons. Women activists and human rights defenders suffered gender-differentiated forms of repression.
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