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Vera Tan

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Project Exile: Death threats keep Azeri journalist abroad
By  • 3 November 2015
"People started calling my mom a whore, people started calling my father a traitor." Azerbaijan-born journalist and blogger Arzu Geybullayeva has written for major news outlets like Foreign Policy and al-Jazeera. Yet it's her work…
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Intimidation still norm for Iran correspondents
By , • 8 October 2015
Despite halting progress for foreigners, outlook for local journalists is still grim Iran has made international headlines in recent months for high-stakes nuclear talks with the U.S. and its support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. What…
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Is Pope Francis a radical?
By , • 17 September 2015
The pope has changed the Catholic Church's tone, if not its doctrine. He's been variously described as “the great reformer,” the “most interesting man in the world,” and most provocatively,  a "radical." And as Pope…
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Turkey raids media group, imprisons VICE reporters
By , • 2 September 2015
Police in Turkey raided the offices of an Ankara-based media conglomerate critical of the government a day after separately charging two British reporters for VICE News and their Turkish fixer with aiding a terrorist organization.…
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