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Meeting presses governments to stop harassing journalists

Nyeri journalists hold a procession along Kanisa Road in Nyeri town to mark World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2022. [Mose Sammy, Standard]

The World Press Freedom Day was marked yesterday with a call to governments to stop harassing journalists.

Scribes attending a conference in Tanzania said journalists were increasingly becoming soft targets while the Eastern Africa Editors Society (EAES) reiterated the bottlenecks placed by governments to frustrate journalism. 

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