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Press freedom watchdog criticizes suspension of Kurdish reporter in northeast Syria

Rudaw's Vivian Fatah was suspended because she did not describe Kurdish fighters who had been killed in Syria as martyrs.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists has criticized the suspension of a Kurdish reporter in northeast Syria who did not refer to killed Kurdish fighters there as having been “martyred.”

The New York-based organization that promotes press freedom said authorities in the autonomous administration of north and east Syria should allow Rudaw’s Vivian Fatah to report again at once.

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