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Censored
May 26
Deutsche Welle, CENSORED
The daily, 30-minute, Albanian-language broadcast by the German news agency Deutsche Welle was cut from Radio Tirana's programming on the evening of general elections in Albania and remained off the air for a week. Radio Tirana, a state-run station that broadcasts throughout Albania, offered no explanation for cutting the program and played music in its place. The station put the program back on the air only after reporters from Deutsche Welle lodged protests with the Radio Tirana director. But sources at the German news agency report that nearly all of the stories filed by their Tirana correspondents are censored, as well as those stories filed from Germany that are critical of the Albanian government.
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