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– Journalist and torture survivor on trial in Bahrain (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 13, 2017

On 16 January 2017, a Bahraini court will begin hearing the trial of the correspondent for Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya and France24, Nazeeha Saeed, who was was charged on 17 July 2016 with “practicing journalism without a license.”
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