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Journalists in jail

By Guardian Exclusive
17 December 2018   |   11:31 am
As of December 1, 2018, the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) have found out that, about 251 journalists are in jail. CPJ said most authoritarian regimes increasingly use imprisonment to silence journalists.

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