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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9820

17 January 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/kenya
Concern for freedom of press

Strasbourg, 16/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption on Thursday 15 January of a resolution on freedom of the press in Kenya, the European Parliament deplores the fact that President Kibaki signed a bill on communications that are potentially detrimental to the right of expression and freedom of the press. Sections 88 and 46 are particularly problematic. Section 88 gives considerable power to the Ministry of Information to raid media houses that are deemed to be a threat to national...

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