Botello is concerned, however, that the inquiry could be an effort to censor the press.

CNN: Once ignored, phone-hacking scandal gets global audience

Specific concerns were raised over the new media law, which critics say is an attempt to censor the press.

BBC: Civil Liberties Committee

It insists it does not censor the press, but newspapers continue to close and independent journalists are moving abroad.

ECONOMIST: Anxious Ethiopia

Freedom of the press is officially guaranteed, but many local journalists think it wiser to censor themselves.

ECONOMIST: Kazakhstan