September 17, 2010
Mr. Ts.Nyamdorj Minister of Justice and Home Affairs
Mr. M.Gankhuu Chairman of the GAICD

Re: Concerns Over Confiscation Of Newspaper Computer

Your Excellency,
I am writing to you today to express concern on the part of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which represents more than 600,000 journalists in 125 countries. The IFJ joins concerned journalists in Mongolia in condemning the confiscation of a newspaper’s main computer, which contains data regarding the paper's activities and, crucially, confidential sources.

We understand that officers of Mongolia's General Authority for Implementing Court Decisions (GAFICD) entered the premises of the daily Niigmiin Toli (Public’s Mirror) in Ulaanbaatar on August 27 and confiscated the newspaper's host computer. Niigmiin Toli’s journalists and Globe International, a local organisation which seeks to protect the rights of independent media and monitors violations of freedom of expression in Mongolia, has condemned the intimidation of the paper as a violation of the media freedom rights.

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