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– Chechen journalist's jail sentence confirmed; torture and forced confession claims ignored (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 9, 2017

RSF deplores the decision by Chechnya's supreme court to confirm the three-year jail sentence that the young journalist Zhalaudi Geriyev received in September 2016 on a clearly trumped-up charge of drug possession.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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