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– Record number of jailed journalists for second year, CPJ census finds (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 18, 2017

For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers–Turkey, China, and Egypt–into improving the bleak climate for press freedom.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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