Kenya Passes Restrictive Media Bill

(10 Aug 07 - RV) Kenya's Parliament has passed a media bill enabling the government to force journalists to disclose their sources. The government says the bill aims to regulate the media, but critics say the bill is a return to the days when journalists were routinely harassed and sometimes tortured. The Managing Group Editor of the Kenyan newspaper The Standard is Chaacha Mwita. He says the media bill will prevent journalists from reporting freely.