In December, we organised a workshop on the new freedom of expression law for judges in Moldova. Percy Bratt, chairman of our Board, was one of the trainers. “Strengthening the legal system is central, because that’s where the rights are protected”, he commented afterwards.
A year after Belarus imposed a law regulating mass media the legal basis for free media to act in Belarus is decisively weakened. The positive changes in the media field were neither systematic nor definitive.
Belarusian Ministry of Justice accuses the independent Association of Journalists, BAJ, of breaking the laws. One can only speculate if this is a consequence of BAJ’s increasingly successful lobbying, says Erik Esbjörnson at Civil Rights Defenders.
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