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Journalist arrests surge in 2024 amid Israel-Gaza war protests

pressfreedomtracker.us · Stephanie Sugars · last updated
But covering protests was far from the only routine newsgathering for which journalists were arrested or charged in 2024. This year, a pattern continued of criminally charging journalists for standard journalistic practices.

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