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Defamation is expected to remain a criminal charge in the revised Criminal Code of Kazakhstan.

• 14 января 2014, 20:51

Turkey violated national newspaper Cumhuriyet's freedom of expression when it prevented further publication of an interview given by the current President Abdullah Gul to Britain's The Guardian in 1995.

• 09 октября 2013, 19:05

Hitting the "Like" button on Facebook is an element of free speech protected by the US constitution, a federal court ruled, in a case closely watched by employment lawyers.

• 20 сентября 2013, 11:12

International rights groups and media freedom defenders expressed concern on Wednesday about a recent Jordanian government decision to block unlicensed local news websites saying it was a censorship attempt.

• 20 июня 2013, 18:37

A press freedom group Thursday criticised a ruling that bans Chinese journalists from quoting foreign news outlets without permission, a move that further tightens Beijing's control of the media.

• 18 апреля 2013, 13:42

Kazakhstan lost six lines in the Press Freedom ranking dropping to the 160th place in the 2012 list.

• 01 февраля 2013, 00:29

Action by China's leaders to contain a row that saw rare protests against censorship shows there is no consensus for immediate change, analysts say, despite rising calls for press freedom and other reforms.

• 12 января 2013, 13:07

China's blogosphere and celebrities -- many with millions of followers -- Tuesday backed journalists at a newspaper embroiled in a censorship row after hundreds of people held a rare protest demanding greater press freedom.

• 08 января 2013, 13:22

On October 31 Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrissov will meet with the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović.

• 30 октября 2012, 12:38

Nazarbayev thinks that freedom of speech is observed in Kazakhstan better than in other CIS countries.

• 28 апреля 2012, 11:03

Best caricaturists of CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) presented their works at the show called Freedom of speech without words in Almaty.

• 08 мая 2011, 12:35