Press: new law threatens its freedom

  • 1999-09-16
VILNIUS (BNS) - The Lithuanian Union of Journalists has urged the Parliament to abolish without delay an amendment to the criminal code currently in effect that calls for prison sentences for those who access state secrets by illegal means."Any journalist or editor who publishes information disseminated by some official" can find himself behind bars, the journalists' trade union has said.The amendment to article 73 of the criminal code which came into effect last August, stipulates that collecting, stealing, buying, possessing, selling and disclosing state secrets in any way is a criminal o...
 
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