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Gloria Oladipo

Judge orders more than 1,000 Voice of America employees to be reinstated

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‘Voice of America has never been more needed,’ says VOA director Michael Abramowitz after ruling. Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP

A Republican-appointed federal judge has ordered that more than 1,000 Voice of America (VOA) employees be reinstated after a Trump administration order effectively dismantled the radio network, triggering mass layoffs.

In two separate rulings made Tuesday, the US district judge Royce Lamberth said that attempts to shut down operations of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that oversees VOA, are illegal and mandated that employees return to work by 23 March.

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