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‘Severe restriction to freedom of information’: UN urges South Korea to amend bill that penalizes ‘fake news’
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The UN’s top media-rights official has warned that South Korea’s “disproportionate” anti-fake-news bill undermines the freedom of journalists and will impose self-censorship on the press. Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression, sent a letter to the South Korean government urging it to amend the media bill currently being debated in the country’s parliament. If passed as written, the bill “may severely restrict the rights to freedom of information and of expression of the media,” Khan wrote, calling the legislation “utterly disproportionate.” Under international human righ

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