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European governments mustn’t stay mum over Baloch Journalist’s death
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European governments mustn’t stay mum over Baloch Journalist’s death

It’s the same every time, the story breaks out, gets written and advertised for at least a month before it disappears from the radars of the press. The story starts with a body dumped into a river. The body of a Baloch journalist, Sajid Hussain.Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to find mutilated dead bodies, in various stage of decomposition and beyond recognition dotting the roads of Balochistan; it is part of the nefarious ‘kill and dump’ policy of Pakistani intelligence agencies highlighted many times by human rights organizations, both national and international. But this time, there was a twist in the usual plot.Sajid was dumped into a river, but the river was in Uppsala, Sweden - the place where he had fled to and asked for political asylum. “His body was found on 23 April in the Fyr