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Latvian journalist arrested for speaking of devaluation

Latvian defence police arrested a journalist for spreading rumours about devaluation, Eesti Päevaleht mediates Latvian Delfi.

Latvian defence police has started two criminal proceedings for spreading devaluation rumours. The institution has turned to the media as well, asking only checked information to be published.

Defence police did not give any specific information.

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Last year Latvian government accepted a law that allows penalties for spreading rumours about lat devaluation and the penalty will be harsher if the rumours are told for personal gain. Misinforming about lat devaluation can bring up to 6 years in jail.

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Heh... :))

Only now I noticed comments by Roobit down there...

As they say - "No Martini - no party".

So too there are no Internet comments without some rabid RuSSkie-Fascie shitting in corners... ;)
~cron [17.12.2008, 21:19]
I see slowly this story, which is an embarrassment for a country that professes to be a free democratic state, is slowly filtering out into the global media:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe
/article5298989.ece
~AR [08.12.2008, 15:07]
"i think goverment should limit the Press for the moment,,,because the market is going down very much because off all the negative from the press..." C´mon georg my horse :) Things should be spoken as they are. Not hiding. Even bad and negative things. Let´s just forget the Soviet methods !!!
~Long John Biggy [27.11.2008, 09:35]
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