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Caught in a Trap

The hashtag campaigns for detainees in Egypt; can a State of Emergency fight gangs in Jamaica?, a pushy North Korean minder in Japan and why rural Bosnia is getting lonelier

Rebecca Kesby introduces stories of everyday life - and everyday dilemmas - from around the world.

Edmund Bower reveals why Twitter in Egypt is so saturated with desperate appeals to "please share" accounts of arbitrary arrest and detention.
Elinor Goodman is in St James Parish, Jamaica, hearing why a local State of Emergency might not get to the root of gang crime in the area.
Vincent Ni visits a school for Korean pupils in Japan - and ends up hearing far more of the Pyongyang party line than he expected.
And Lizzie Porter explains the reasons that the countryside of Bosnia-Herzegovina - territory once fought over bitterly during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s - is now increasingly deserted.

Photo: A young man detained in Egypt, May 2017. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

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    大象传媒 World Service except News Internet
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  • Sun 18 Feb 2018 03:06GMT
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  • Sun 18 Feb 2018 10:06GMT
    大象传媒 World Service except News Internet