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On Journalists' Day, Chilean government pays tribute to journalists who disappeared and were murdered during the dictatorship

"As an act of 'memory and reparation for the victims' relatives' was how the Government described the commemoration held this Tuesday, in [the presidential palace of] La Moneda, on the occasion of Journalist's Day in Chile [celebrated on July 11].

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According to official information, around 230 journalists suffered political imprisonment, in addition to another 70 who were not in the profession, but were directly linked to it. To these are added 37 who were victims of forced disappearance or execution."

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