Albania - Public television prevented from covering Tirana street demo

Reporters Without Borders today protested against a ban slapped by the leadership of the opposition Socialist Party preventing public radio and television (RTSH) from covering a hunger strike by some of its deputies against alleged vote fraud on Deshmoret e Kombit boulevard. A team from RTSH went to the scene of the hunger strike on 4 May but were ordered to leave the spot for “their own safety”, by party spokesman Armela Imeraj. When the journalists refused to leave and continued to work, (...)

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