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– Alliance launches appeal against Germany's criminalisation of handling leaked data (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 23, 2017

An alliance of German civil rights organizations, journalists and bloggers has lodged a constitutional appeal against a new anti-whistleblower provision in the German Penal Code.
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