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– Round-up: Blogger Yameen Rasheed murdered in Maldives, Kashmir social media ban and West Papua issues raised before WPFD in Jakarta (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News May 8, 2017

April: Tragic murders of blogger Yameen Rasheed in Maldives and Mashal Khan in Pakistan; digital crackdown in India and Malaysia; Photographer Yance Wenda beaten covering WPFD West Papua protests
Source: MEDIA FEED

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