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9 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1/📰 🎉Today is The World Press Freedom Conference #WPFC2020.

👉60 countries will gather to will endorse a new commitment to protect journalists’ safety.

🔴625 journalists over the past 20 years have been murdered for their reporting and investigations into organized crime.
2/👉Throughout our #AssassinationWitness campaign we have profiled journalists across the world who have been brutally murdered for reporting the truth and fighting organized crime.

Ján Kuciak, Daphne Caruna Galizia are two examples

See more⤵️
bit.ly/2K6tME8
3/ 🎙️👂 We also have a podcast episode which discusses the crucial role journalists play in protecting freedom of speech and what needs to be done to protect them ⤵️
spoti.fi/2VT6vIb
4/ #WPFC2020 - a reminder that journalists need protection.

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