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Panama City, Panama, September 8, 1999--A delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) met with newly inaugurated president Mireya Moscoso this morning and urged her to repeal the country's notorious "gag laws," which criminalize the practice of journalism in Panama. The gag laws date largely from military governments of the 1970s and 1980s. They…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260