Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)

It is of great concern that Libya is blocking specific websites, particularly given recent assurances that Colonel Gaddafi is now much more open and that his Administration would not return to the dark days of media control. It is interesting that the countries that have cracked down on media freedom, such as Libya, Burma and China, are the very countries about which there are serious human rights concerns. Is the Minister of the view that Libya has broken the international agreement it undertook in regard to press freedom?

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