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German journalist held in Venezuela facing 28 years in prison on spying charges

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Billy Six, a German freelance journalist who has been held in Caracas since 17 November on charges of spying, rebellion and “violating security zones,” and who is not being allowed contact with anyone in the outside world except his parents. A reporter for various German media outlets including the ultra-conservative and nationalist publications Junge Freiheit and Deutschland Magazin, the 32-year-old Six is facing th

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