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Timor Leste: Analysis of Media Laws

March 25, 2009

Article 19 has prepared a Memorandum assessing the compatibility of a set of five draft laws on media regulation and the right of information- prepared on behalf of UNDP for consideration by the authorities in Timor Leste – with international standards of freedom on expression. A key concerns with these draft laws is that they impose a licensing system on journalists, along with a broad set of obligations for individual journalists, breach of which may lead to expulsion from the profession.

Source: http://www.article19.org/pdfs/press/timor-leste-analysis-of-media-laws.pdf

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