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– Venezuela's anti-hate law provides Maduro with another tool to intimidate the press (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News February 10, 2018

In what journalists fear could be a taste of things to come, Venezuela's new anti-hate law was enforced for the first time against a news organisation when a newspaper editor was called before government agents for questioning.
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