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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8618

8 January 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 29
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/press
Reporters sans frontières indicates that 2003 was bleak year for freedom of the press

Brussels, 07/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - Reporters sans frontières (RSF) have stated that 2003 was "a bloody year for freedom of the press". In its annual balance sheet, the organisation sounds the alarm by underlining that violations of freedom of the press increased compared to the number in 2002 and 2001. RSF has provided some alarming figures: 42 journalists killed (25 in 2002), at least 766 arrests (as opposed to 692), 1460 assaulted or threatened (as opposed to 1420 and 501 acts of...

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