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Press freedom dream elusive, decades later

By STANDARD TEAM

Press freedom is a rumbling issue in every regime, as boundaries are tested and principles constantly defined and redefined, and Kenya has been no exception. But talking about the relationship has always been a slightly difficult and contorted affair, as the story carried by The Standard on May 10, 1983 attests.

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