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Three Al-Sawt Al-Akhar journalists arrested for questioning COVID-19 Data

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Three journalists of the Al-Sawt Al-Akhar daily, Lamari Mohamed, Meriem Cherfi and Mouhoub Toufik. The three journalists were arrested on April 2, after the publication of an article in which they questioned the reliability of the results of the covid-19 screenings carried out by the Institut Pasteur.

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