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        "title": "Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws",
        "occurred_on": "2025-02-03",
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        "issue_of_the_day": "The incidents occurred six months into the interim government that took power after Sheikh Hasina's government fell in August 2024, a period in which press-freedom groups said journalists faced both continued street violence and new draft cyber-security legislation.",
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        "granularity": "granular",
        "status": "in_effect",
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        "summary": "On a single day in February 2025, groups of men beat at least eight journalists in two separate incidents in rural Bangladesh while they investigated a medical-negligence tip and a land dispute; the incidents came as the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus drafted new cyber ordinances rights groups said could add legal risk on top of the physical one.",
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