A new independent media watchdog has been set up in Qatar, the Qatar Journal and the Gulf Times both reported this week.
Reporters Without Borders and the Qatari government announced on 3 January that a new centre for press freedom would open in three months and provide protection for journalists as well as medical treatment for those wounded in the course of their work.
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