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Forty years of state lies: RSF unveils leaked Iranian justice file (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News February 12, 2019

No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009.
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