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USA: OSCE OFFICIAL CRITICAL OF U.S. PATRIOT ACT...(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe )(Brief Article)
IPR Strategic Business Information Database, January, 2003
In a press release posted on the website of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on 23 January, Freimut Duve, the OSCE's representative on freedom of the media, criticized the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for investigating library records, newspaper subscriptions, and bookstore receipts of customers under the U.
S. Patriot Act. These activities may "intimidate citizens from exercising their right to freedom of expression," he told the OSCE Permanent Council on 23 January. Duve has asked for clarifications from U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. In his comments to the Permanent Council, Duve said it might well be that the FBI and the INS "have not recognized the...
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