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Record number of journalists jailed because of their work

by David Bauder
| December 16, 2020 12:06 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — A record 274 journalists were in jail at the beginning of the month because of their work, nearly three dozen of them on charges of “false news,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday.

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