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– Sufi website journalists sentenced to long jail terms, flogging in Iran (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News August 23, 2018

RSF condemns the extremely harsh sentences that a Tehran revolutionary court passed last week on six more people who edited or wrote for independent site Majzooban Noor.
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