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This Thursday, October 21, 2:00 pm EDT, join Law Library specialists Iana Fremer and Dante Figueroa for the latest installment in the Foreign and Comparative Law webinar series, this time focusing on Freedom of Speech in the Time of Pandemic: Central America and Eurasia. Iana and Dante will review current legislative developments regulating mass media and their ability to distribute information freely during the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the presenters will analyze recently introduced amendments to national legislation aimed at establishing different control measures over the media outlets, internet resources, and journalists in 20 selected countries around the world where adoption of such laws has been identified, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, El Salvador, India, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Moldova, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

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