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Threats to Scots media freedom are real – that’s why we must act

FOUR months ago Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in Malta. The pioneering investigative journalist had been leading the call for transparency and justice following the release of the Panama Papers and in November 2017 she was killed by a car bomb. This killing is part of a larger tragic picture of journalists and writers being persecuted for asking questions some groups want unasked and unanswered.