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Kenya's President rejects media law as threat to press freedom
President Mwai Kibaki has refused to sign a media bill into law on the grounds that a last-minute amendment limiting the confidentiality of sources posed a threat to press freedom.
Nairobi - A consensus was achieved in the drafting of the bill but parliamentarian Karue Muriuki added a controversial amendment at the last moment, before the bill's approval on 2 August. Under this amendment, an editor could be forced to identify an anonymous source to the police or to a court.
Kibaki said the amendment ran counter to Kenya's "democratic efforts" in recent years and represented "an obstacle to press freedom."
Source: http://www.rsf.org
