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Hundreds rally for jailed N.B. farmer

November 1, 2011  By CBC News


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Hundreds rally for jailed N.B. farmer

A crowd of roughly 400 people gathered in Grand Falls recently to
show their support for Henk Tepper, the potato farmer who has been stuck in a
Lebanese jail for more than seven months.

November 1, 2011, Grand
Falls, NB – A crowd of roughly 400 people gathered in Grand Falls recently to
show their support for Henk Tepper, the potato farmer who has been stuck in a
Lebanese jail for more than seven months.

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People at the rally signed
petitions to the governments of Canada, Lebanon and Algeria to seek Tepper’s
release.

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