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Leon Willems

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Preventing the death of independent journalism

Published On: December 9, 2020 06:46 AM NPT By: Leon Willems

The COVID-19 crisis could deal a fatal blow to independent journalism. But there is still time to make sure that it doesn’t.

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Demonization of Journalists Must End

Published On: January 14, 2020 08:32 AM NPT By: Leon Willems

AMSTERDAM – Five years ago this month, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi stormed the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and, in a nightmare lasting just minutes, killed 12 people. In the days that followed, millions marched in France and elsewhere to express solidarity with the murdered journalists.

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Justice for journalists

Published On: June 23, 2019 12:25 AM NPT By: Leon Willems

AMSTERDAM – It has been more than eight months since Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and critic of his home country’s government who had been living in self-exile, was tortured, killed, and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. As the Saudis bent over backward to obscure the truth about Khashoggi’s fate, Turkey launched an investigation. As expected, not much has come of it.

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