VIENNA, 29 April 2016 – Recent amendments to anti-terrorism measures in Uzbekistan should not be used to limit journalists’ access to information, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today.
On 25 April, the President of Uzbekistan signed amendments to the country’s Criminal Code into law. The amendments include a blanket ban on the use of religion through the mass media and the Internet that seeks “to violate civil concord, dissemination of defamatory, destabilizing fabrications, and committing other acts aimed against the established rules of behaviour in society and public safety”, as well as materials “aimed at spreading …read more
Source: OSCE