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Flood emergency triggers crackdown on journalists in Iran (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News May 2, 2019

Around 30 journalists and citizen-journalists have been summoned, questioned or arrested in the past few weeks.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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