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HRDC Receives First Amendment Award
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2013, page 34
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On July 25, 2013, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), a national organization dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism, upholding high standards of ethics in that field and protecting First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and the press, announced the Human Rights Defense Center was the recipient ...
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