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Follow DemLabs on our NEW social media! 25 ways the free press is being killed in Israel, Russia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia and America Hiding the Epstein files. Strangling the free press. Chainsawing journalists… There’s a pattern. See how dictators kill the free press to deceive you and cling to power. Media freedom is a fundamental right, but nearly half of the world’s population has no access to freely reported news and information. — RSF Democracy Dies in Darkness How to kill the free press Netanyahu In one year, more than 130 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. According to RSF’s information, at least 32 of them were targeted and killed while working. Almost all the journalists in this closed territory have been displaced several times in the past year, and the few who have been forced into exile have no prospect of returning. — Reporters Without Borders Putin 43 journalists and media workers have been killed in Russia since Putin came to power in late 1999, at least 25 of them in “direct retaliation” for their reporting according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)’s data. Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote for Novaya Gazeta. Politkovskaya, who wrote investigative pieces exposing the Kremlin’s policies in Chechnya, was shot dead in her apartment building in October 2006. — PBS Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, became an international pariah after intelligence officers said to be acting on his orders abducted and murdered the Washington Post columnist and opposition critic Jamal Khashoggi. In a gruesome coda, it later emerged, the Saudi agents dismembered his body with a bone saw in order to dispose of the evidence. — The Guardian Support groups working on protecting the free press Reporters Without Borders Committee To Protect Journalists Amnesty International Take Away: Support the free press. Deepak DemLabs DISCLAIMER: ALTHOUGH THE DATA FOUND IN THIS BLOG AND INFOGRAPHIC HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND PROCESSED FROM SOURCES BELIEVED TO BE RELIABLE, NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED CAN BE MADE REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY SUCH INFORMATION. THIS DISCLAIMER Read in browser »                    Recent Articles: Watch the 60 Minute report on CECOT that Bari Weiss blocked: 105 top newsletters vs. Corporate BS (CBS) Where are the Venezuelan oil fields Republican oil barons want Trump to grab? Check this map. Why did Bari Weiss Pull ‘60 Minutes’ Report on brutal El Salvador Prison? Follow the Federal money to CBS owner Larry Ellison! How does Bezos dodge paying taxes and providing health insurance to Amazon workers? Follow the Epstein Class money! Masked men abducting women? Set up your own free Community Emergency Alert system.

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