Lynne O’Donnell

Pakistan has jailed one of its last independent journalists

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Lynne O’Donnell

Lynne O’Donnell is a journalist and author. She was the Afghanistan bureau chief for Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press between 2009 and 2017.

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