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Due to political unrest and repression in Kenya, Hassan remained in exile at the end of his two-year work contract. He then served as an executive member of the
Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPPK), a protest organization that he had helped found. He also co-edited the
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495:, where he came in third in a December 2007 by-election marred by voting irregularities. According to Hassan's supporters and one of his key campaigners Ms Saumu Saidi, he would have won the seat had it not been for stolen ballot boxes.
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