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began campaigning for laws that publicly disclosed personal details of people convicted of sex offenses. After the government stated that it had no plans to implement such laws, the newspaper, edited by
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man had his home surrounded by a mob of 300 people, who shouted "pedophile, rapist, beast, pervert" at him and dragged a six-year-old child to his door while asking "do you want this one?".
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was murdered by two vigilantes, who firebombed his home after he was wrongfully accused of being a sex offender. Both perpetrators were jailed for life;
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