Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Timor-Leste’s Journalist Association (AJTL) and journalism students marched through the streets of the capital Dili today calling on the government to scrap plans to change the law to make defamation a criminal offence.
Under the proposed law journalists could face jail sentences.
Opponents of the proposed law say it is an attack on democracy in a country with the highest world press freedom ranking in the region.
Words by Bob Howarth, image by AJTL.
READ MORE: Timor-Leste: Can the criminal defamation law in Timor-Leste be stopped?
PrintPMC Editor | Radio Free (2020-08-03T11:13:03+00:00) Timorese journalists protest over plan to turn defamation into crime. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2020/08/03/timorese-journalists-protest-over-plan-to-turn-defamation-into-crime/
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