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– DRC radio journalist Benjamin Mutiya detained over defamation claim (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 24, 2017

The national security service (ANR) arrested Benjamin Mutiya, a reporter at the community station Radio Télévision Communautaire de Walikale (RTCWA), in Walikale, on 14 December 2017.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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