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Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz
Western journalism is becoming more and more illegal. The western empire is guilty of everything it accuses its enemies of doing.
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Josiah Mortimer
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All three journalists arrested this week covering Just Stop Oil were arrested under “suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance.” It is a new crime introduced as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act. It carries prison time of up to ten years in jail
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Caitlin Johnstone
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What scares both journalists is that it represents a shift in how policing is conducted in the UK. “It’s never happened to me before. I interact with the police loads. I always ask to speak to the officer in charge or media liaison and show my press card,”
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‘They Know Who I Am, They Know What I’m Doing’: Arrested Journalists Speak Out over New Policing...
Josiah Mortimer talks to Tom Bowles and Rich Felgate who were locked up for covering an environmental protest, and reports on more repressive legislation to come. 
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Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz
“I found it outrageous. I’ve been heading towards the conclusion that there’s a pattern emerging – the motivation is to make the protests ineffective by stopping the media coverage. Physically disrupting it, criminalising journalists, intimidating us so we don’t go there.”
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VeraIris
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Cause by the rise of global fascism that you've helped by spreading half of their propaganda...as you seem to notice I think, in the tweets of the people who follow and agree with you
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