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It was the kind of brutal, authoritarian tactics we usually hear about in Russia under Putin or Afghanistan under the Taliban or perhaps the strong arm of the military juntas in Myanmar or Egypt: A police raid on a newspaper, seizing property and effectively shutting it down in an effort to silence journalists trying to

MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small newspaper and a police department in Kansas are at the center of a dispute over freedom of speech that is being watched around the

The prosecutor deciding if charges will be filed after the police raid on a Kansas newspaper has family ties to the case. And questions are asked about whether looking at public records online can be a crime.

The Marion, Kansas city council's next scheduled meeting is set for Aug. 21.

The headline in big letters across the top of the Marion County Record on Wednesday read “SEIZED … but not silenced”.

It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors. Yet

“SEIZED ... but not silenced.” That was the headline on the front page of last week’s edition of the Marion County Record, located in Marion, Kansas.

Now, just when you thought the squashing of free expression couldn’t get worse, it has.

Now, just when you thought the squashing of free expression couldn’t get worse, it has.

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