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Intl media rights groups denounce Albanian PM’s attack on media freedom

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TIRANA, Dec. 27 – Four international organizations dealing with freedom of speech called on the country’s Prime Minister Edi Rama on Wednesday to drop amendment of two draft laws that foresee registration, surveillance, fining and banning internet media portals, introduced by Rama under his “anti-slander” package. In an open letter to Rama and Minister of Justice Etilda Gjonaj, the European Federation of Journalists, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Reporters Without Borders and PEN International asked the government “to immediately drop the initiative to amend the two draft laws in question and to involve journalists, civil society organisations,…

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