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– Another wave of trials of independent journalists in Azerbaijan (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 15, 2017

As Azerbaijan today begins trying a journalist who was kidnapped and brought back by force from neighbouring Georgia, RSF urges the international community to take a firm stand with its government in order to get it to stop hounding the country's few remaining independent journalists.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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