Four NGOs urge Albania to drop proposed online media legislation

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) and three other international press freedom NGOs have addressed a joint open letter to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama urging him to withdraw proposed online media legislation that would restrict the public’s access to information. The proposed legislation, unveiled by the prime minister’s office last week, consists of amendments to the law on electronic communications and the law on audiovisual media, and its declared aim is

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