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– Pakistan urged to free two journalists convicted of defamation (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 19, 2017

The conviction of two Pakistani reporters relates to a series of articles published in a Sindhi-language weekly, and other outlets in early 2015, alleging that a property developer desecrated a graveyard.
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