Savings law is a fairly common concept in Commonwealth legal systems, whereby restrictive colonial-era laws are carried over into post-independence legal frameworks
Turkish experts, civil society groups, and international observers saw the law as a potential tool to restrict independent reporting and stifle dissent
The Trump administration recently announced visa restrictions for foreign officials that the US considers 'complicit' in Cuba’s foreign medical programmes
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