Ukraine - Appeal on Parliament about dangerous draft law

Reporters without borders

Paris, 31 July 2012 Dear Members of Parliament, Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that campaigns for freedom of information, wishes to inform you of its profound concern over draft law n° 11013, presented to Parliament last week, which is designed to amend the criminal code and the code of criminal procedure regarding defamation. It is more than 10 years since the Ukrainian Parliament decriminalized defamation. When it adopted its new criminal code in January 2001, (...)

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