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RSF’s denounces Singapore’s disregard of press freedom ahead of its Universal Periodic Review

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) has sent its evaluation of the current situation in Singapore to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva ahead of Singapore’s next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the council’s other members in May. RSF’s evaluation deplores the Singaporean government’s complete disregard for the basic principles of press freedom. The city-state’s authorities accepted 117 recommendations at the end of the council’s last UPR of the situation in Singapore i

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