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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Number of jailed journalists nearly doubles in Turkey - latimes.com

Number of jailed journalists nearly doubles in Turkey
April 5, 2012 | 2:19 pm

Turkey is jailing nearly twice as many journalists as a year ago, and sentencing them to as long as 166 years behind bars, according to a report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Ninety-five journalists are now imprisoned in Turkey, up from 57 a year ago.

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