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die Mahnwache  vigil (for); protest demonstration (against)

In Leipzig haben sich erneut hunderte Einwohner der Stadt an einer Mahnwache für die Freilassung der im Irak entführten Ingenieure aus Sachsen beteiligt.
In Leipzig hundreds of residents have again participated in a vigil for the release of the engineers from Saxony who were kidnapped in Iraq.

Related: die Nachtwache vigil (watching over, nursing someone)

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