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Kenya: President deals major blow to press freedom
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR131.htm
Date Written: 04/01/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Kenyan President deals major blow to press freedom. Also known as the â#oICT Billâ##, the new legislation provides for heavy fines and prison sentences for press offences. It also gives the government, above all the information and interior ministrie
Abstract: President deals major blow to press freedom
Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that President Mwai Kibaki signed the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill 2008 into law today.
â#oThis is a major step backwards in the history of press freedom in Kenya,â## Reporters Without Borders said. â#oWe have for weeks been joining Kenyan journalists in denouncing this billâ##s reactionary and repressive nature. We do not understand President Kibakiâ##s decision, which will seriously undermi...
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