May 14, 2013-Azerbaijani parliament's approval to extend criminal defamation laws to include Internet speech is a serious setback for press freedom in a country that severely curtails free expression already.The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on President Ilham Aliyev to veto the bill. The members of parliament voted to amend the criminal code to extend punishment for slander and insult-articles 147 and 148 of the code respectively-to the...

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