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Iran executes journalist who promotes 2017 protests

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran on Saturday hanged a once-deported journalist for his workline work, which helped provoke a nationwide economic protest in 2017, officials said, just months after he returned to Tehran under mysterious circumstances. Ruhullah Zam, 47, was hanged early Saturday morning, according to Iranian state television and …

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Irina Slavina dies after a fire in Russia

A Russian journalist was killed after a fire broke out outside a government building on Friday – an hour before his suicide on Facebook, he wrote, “Blame the Russian Federation for my death.” Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the small local news outlet Koza Press, in front of the local branch …

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