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Mobs target journalists and Turkey hands jail sentences to 28 academics (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 30, 2019

Europe and Central Asia in January: Good news from Azerbaijan, anti-LGBTI+ violence in Chechnya, an IFEX member on trial in Turkey, journalists targeted by protesters across Europe, dubious convictions in Tajikistan and Montenegro, demonstrators demand protection of independent press in Serbia and Hungary…
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