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COVID-19: IPI calls for journalists’ release from Turkey’s prisons

Journalists must not be excluded from plans to release prisoners amid health pandemic

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The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today demanded that imprisoned journalists must not be excluded from the government’s plan to release thousands of prisoners as part of the response to the COVID19 pandemic.

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