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GRAPHIC TRUTH: WHO JAILS THE MOST JOURNALISTS?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds the key to understanding what actually happened to Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate. But he's an odd person to be in the position of unveiling the truth about a journalist's grim fate: as the graphic above shows, Turkey imprisons more writers than any country on earth.

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