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"In the future they will apologize to our children" – Europe and Central Asia in April (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News April 30, 2019

April was a grim month for press freedom, with a young journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland, Julian Assange facing extradition to the US, and cartoonist Musa Kart and colleagues returning to jail. But there was also good LGBTQI+ rights news from Turkey and justice in a 20-year-old murder case in Serbia…
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