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If the latter is true, everything happening in the present could just be some sort of manifestation of their repressed trauma.

The UN team said "an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters" had been directed by political leaders and senior security officials.

"You shouldn't jail fundamental rights, you shouldn't repress them – you should protect them," she says.

"They have already tortured me and repressed me, but they will not silence me. My voice is the only thing I have left."

Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and director of digital justice and civil rights at Free Press, said in a statement that content moderation “has never been a tool to repress free speech.”