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Letter to the Editor

Media reporting of suicide in Muslim countries

S. M. Yasir Arafata Department of Psychiatry, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, BangladeshCorrespondence[email protected]
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Sheikh Shoibb Department of Psychiatry, JawaharLal Nehru Memorial Hospital (JLNMH), Srinagar, IndiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3739-706X
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Marthoenis Marthoenisc Department of Psychiatry and Mental HealthNursing, UniversitasSyiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, IndonesiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7322-2585
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Sujita Kumar Kard Department of Psychiatry, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, IndiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1107-3021
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Vikas Menone Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, IndiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8035-4658
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Muhammad Ittefaqf William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5334-7567
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Russell Kabirg School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine, and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9257-2775
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Pages 941-944 | Received 08 Jul 2020, Accepted 12 Sep 2020, Published online: 15 Oct 2020

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