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State should stop intimidating media

Having failed to secure powers to sieve media content by awarding a licence to a single company for digital broadcast, the Government seems to be staging a fresh threat on media space.

The proposed security laws will infringe on the rights of journalists and curtail the public’s right to access information. The assumption that civil liberties are the obstacle in the fight against terrorism is wrong.

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