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New law censors information about homosexuality

By Free Media Online · December 16, 2009 · Comments Off
IFEX · Tagged: amendment-forbidding, bisexual-relations, called-on-parliament, censor-information, human, human rights, new-law, public-information, rights-group, seimas

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Lithuania’s parliament (the Seimas) has introduced a new law created to censor information available to children, reports Human Rights Watch. The rights group called on parliament to repeal an amendment forbidding public information encouraging “homosexual and bisexual relations”.

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