‘Press Freedom’ in Southern Cyprus – Cyprus Newspaper

A draft law in Southern Cyprus will hit the freedom of the press said that the bill was on the agenda.

Fileleftheros newspaper “Watch journalists- the government’s malicious law- attack on the freedom of the press” headlines with the headline of the news that a bill of law killed the freedom of press.

In the draft law, the newspaper, which makes it possible to monitor and reveal the resources of journalists’ speeches, said that the newspaper, according to the bill, said that a person authorized by the Police General Manager, the President of the Intelligence Organization, the Police Inspector or a person authorized by these people could initiate transactions against journalists.

The newspaper wrote that the bill, which aims to compliance with the European Law (Emfa-Europe Media Freedom Act-European Media Freedom Law), which regulates the freedom of the press in the newspaper, which includes broadly included from the internal page, wrote that the freedom of the journalism killed the freedom of the press according to the world of journalism.

The Greek Cypriot Ministry of Interior wrote and offered to the intervened parties for the consultation of the law on the implementation of the law of the law of the bill allows journalists to be monitored maliciously noted that the newspaper, stressed that the sources of journalists cannot be protected on the basis of the articles of the law.

The abolition of journalism confidentiality can be achieved after a police inspector, the newspaper said that the law bill of the authorities of the competent authorities against journalists allowed an unauthorized monitoring software, he said.

Following the reactions of the journalism world, the bill will be re -revealed after a month with the changes to be made.