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Burkina Faso Committee to Protect Journalists

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Burkina Faso urged to avoid curbs on security reporting

By Reuters
21 Jul 2019 | 12:54 pm |

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Burkina Faso's government to nix a bill that would impose stiff prison sentences on reporters for "demoralizing" security services battling a strengthening jihadist insurgency.

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