Pakistan’s journalists are daily confronted with a bleak statistic: Since 1992, 30 journalists have been murdered in Pakistan; 28 with impunity. Milana Knezevic reports
Pakistan’s complicated media freedom threats
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Macedonia: Journalist arrested while covering rally in Skopje
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