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Syria makes intensive preparations to issue new media law

Syria ·

The new authorities are dismantling the previous censorship system and repealing many laws and restrictions that had been used to pursue journalists and limit freedoms.

Syria's press was tightly controlled under the Assad family, which ruled from 1971 until its government fell in December 2024.

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