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– How a Pakistani journalist became a refugee in Bosnia (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News August 13, 2018

After his office was attacked with a hand grenade in 2015, Muhammad Yasir fled his home for safety in Europe. Since then he has been thrown out of Hungary and robbed and beaten by the police in Croatia; he currently lives in a migrant camp in Bosnia.
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