Disappearing Journalists

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| Wed Mar. 16, 2011 4:59 PM PDT

ABC (among others) reports that four New York Times reporters are MIA on assignment in Libya. Same day, Human Rights Watch releases a reminder that journalists get detained and harshly punished for doing their jobs in their own countries too often.

Here's a handy map of where they're most likely to serve time.  

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