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– Impunity, attacks by security personnel, remain top challenges to free expression in West Africa (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 8, 2016

Crimes committed against journalists and other free expression activists in West Africa almost always go unpunished, a phenomenon that tends to embolden perpetrators and potential perpetrators of free expression violations.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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