Daniel Wickham
So here are some of the staunch defenders of the free press attending the solidarity rally in Paris today...
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8) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for "defaming the army" http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/tunisia-blogger-jailed-military-court-should-be-released-2015-01-06 …
9) The PMs of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journos http://en.rsf.org/bulgarie-police-attack-journalists-covering-26-07-2013,44980.html … http://en.rsf.org/georgie-at-least-a-dozen-journalists-27-05-2011,40365.html …
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10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/13/washington-post-reporter-arrested-in-ferguson/ …
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11) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year http://en.rsf.org/greece-riot-police-injure-woman-13-06-2014,46435.html …
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12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in '99 http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/no-justice-victims-nato-bombings-20090423 …
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13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses https://cpj.org/2013/05/malian-army-expels-french-journalist-from-gao.php …
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14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them) http://cpj.org/2014/02/attacks-on-the-press-in-2013-bahrain.php …
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15) Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/10/qatar-court-upholds-sentence-against-poet-20131021123723850815.html …
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16) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013 http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Palestinian-journalist-jailed-for-insulting-Abbas-308014 …
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17) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for "defamation" in 2013 http://en.rsf.org/slovenia-blogger-gets-six-months-in-jail-16-05-2013,44621.html …
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Gracias
@DanielWickham93 por hacer esta revisión de la hipocresía de algunos políticos!! =)#JeSuisCharlieTranslated from Spanish by Bing -
@EduLorenGarcia de nada :)
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@DanielWickham93 Georgia had different PM back then :) -
@jerald_newman fair point.
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@DanielWickham93 Not to mention Enda Kenny,PM of country with blasphemy laws so draconian that Pakistan religious groups want to copy -
@TheOnlyMUFC@HolyHonda49@DanielWickham93 And Enda's party likened peaceful#IrishWater protesters to ISIS.
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@DanielWickham93 about Georgia, different PM different government... that's 4 years ago... -
@DanielWickham93@nothings this is a different PM of Bulgaria. Lots of bad stuff can be said about him, but not „beating journalists“. -
@DanielWickham93 Thanks for this superb list. The new gov of Georgia (2012-) has criticised civil right abuses by previous gov.@nick_luethi -
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@DanielWickham93 Maybe a new start -
@Jan3106@DanielWickham93 Dream on .until people stop voting establishment We will never get the political agenda we the 99% expect -
@Raywoolford@DanielWickham93 you're clearly not value-free in your opinion#hiddenagenda
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Edu Loren García
lasha markozashvili
Adrian Harte
Andrew Brennan
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