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Kazakhstan Loses Censorship Battle in U.S. Courts — But Silences Opposition Website Anyway


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Kazakhstan has given up trying to use the U.S. court system to identify those who obtained and published a number of Kazakh officials’ embarrassing emails.
The outcome in Kazakhstan’s nasty campaign was a victory for journalists and dissidents who have made a conscious decision to live overseas to avoid imprisonment in their despotic homelands.
But their freedom-of-expression triumph came at a high price. Kazakhstan waged the U.S.-court campaign to try to learn the identities of journalists from the opposition website Respublika, and the journalists’ sources. The cost of fighting the legal cases and the prospect of so …read more

Source: The Huffington Post

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