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| | globalinfo.org - May 3, SPAIN (#29609) |
 | | MADRID, May 3, 2004 (IPS/GIN) -- Last year, 42 journalists were killed and 766 were detained, the highest annual figures in the past decade, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF, Reporters Sans Frontieres). |
 | | In that category are the armed Islamic militant groups in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Pakistan and the Philippines; the Colombians Carlos Castaño, leader of the right-wing paramilitaries, and Manuel Marulanda, head of the leftist FARC guerrillas; the Basque group ETA, and the heir to the crown of Saudi Arabia, prince Abdullah. |
 | | Also on that list are presidents Hu Jintao, of China, Kim Jong Il, of North Korea, Fidel Castro, of Cuba, Muammar Ghaddafi, of Libya, Pervez Musharraf, of Pakistan, Vladimir Putin, of Russia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, and Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan. |
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