Don Lemon Arrest Signals Danger for Press Freedom | Opinion

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has spent 40 years addressing authoritarian regimes' threats to journalists, from the dictatorship of Chile under Augusto Pinochet to the Russian kleptocracy of Vladimir Putin. And for the last 12 months we have been applying everything we learned over those four decades right here in the United States. The arrest of former CNN anchor Don Lemon and Emmy award-winning journalist Georgia Fort—for covering a protest in Minnesota—is the latest trick from

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