Free Speech Emergency in Latvia reported [1] on Sept. 12: “Lato Lapsa, a controversial Latvian investigative journalist with access to hundreds of pages of documents in a criminal investigation of politician and Ventspils mayor Aivars Lembergs, announced he was fleeing the country and shutting down his websites, including one that was a kind of Latvian ‘Wikileaks Lite’.”
Latvia: Investigative Journalist Flees the Country
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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