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Swaziland prime minister threatens to censor media - CPJ.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on 22 October

The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a recent statement from Swaziland's Prime Minister, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, announcing his intention to create a law requiring newspaper columnists to seek permission before they write critically about the government.

Dlamini's statement appeared in the Tuesday [19 October] edition of state daily Swazi Observer, according to the Media Institute of Southern Africa and local journalists. Dlamini accused news columnists of tarnishing their country's image and taking payments from unnamed foreign interests, according to the same …

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