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2018 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 3, 2018

In the past decade, at least 324 journalists have been silenced through murder worldwide and in 85 percent of these cases no perpetrators have been convicted.
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