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– On anniversary of "Charlie Hebdo" attack, journalists still threatened with death for "blasphemy" (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 8, 2018

Three years after 12 people were killed at the Paris headquarters of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015, those who censor in the name of God still pose one of the gravest threats to the freedom to inform almost everywhere in the world.
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