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Chris Smith: There are 42 journalists in prison suffering because they dared to write the truth about what goes on.

On the recordJune 25, 2014
There are 42 journalists in prison suffering because they dared to write the truth about what goes on.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Highlighting the repression of journalists in Turkey.

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