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From the Communiqué

23 March 2005

LAW PROTECTS JOURNALISTS' SOURCES

Belgium's Parliament has passed a law that protects the confidentiality of journalists' sources and bars authorities from monitoring their phones or searching their homes, reports the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).



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