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Public Information Department, Working Hand in Hand with Member States, Drawing Strength from Staff, Can Meet Contemporary Challenges of Spreading UN Message, PI/2050
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Zambia has been elected Vice-Chair of UN Committee on Information. Here is part of what the recently-released state department report on human rights has to say about Zambia. " The government was sensitive to opposition and other criticism and was quick to prosecute critics using the legal pretext that they had incited public disorder...Journalists were occasionally subjected to physical attack, harassment, and intimidation from progovernment and opposition political activists... Libel laws were used to suppress free speech and the press...[T]he government frequently threatened to deregister critical online publications and blogs."