Kazakh leader signs law curbing Internet: activists

(Reuters) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed into law new controls on the Internet that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has called repressive, local activists said Monday.
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New law to restrict online expression as Kazakhstan prepares for OSCE presidency

(bne) - Kazakhstan’s online community and human rights organisations are appealing to members of the country’s upper house of parliament to reject a controversial new law on internet use. Opponents of the law say it will tighten state control of online media and restrict freedom of expression.

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