1) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour t.co/giZg7JounI 2) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world t.co/sLCJaZprex 3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr (second highest after Syria) t.co/w74zqVHZf9 4) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days t.co/xzVRgmkM1g 5) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for insulting a government servant t.co/J4Rca9chuA 6) Foreign Minister Lamamra of Algeria, which has detained journalist Abdessami Abdelhai for 15 months without charge t.co/KlDiwKibzL 7) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links https://t.co/15ESrDu1kh 8) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for defaming the army t.co/8fwfVHq8VK 9) The PMs of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journalists t.co/sB0gkTtnJl t.co/bnvaAyic5p 10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters t.co/fYtWGEl3pL 11) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year and other journalists and bloggers have been persecuted t.co/Vr8MPsEwWR 12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journalists in 99 t.co/wp0mR0a52l 13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses https://t.co/LByJYLfxIe 14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them) t.co/HX6Q3Ia3lG 15) Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem t.co/8s1N0wcPC6 16) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013 t.co/2p0VXYB2Sd 17) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for defamation in 2013 t.co/cBVYh4niys 18) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where blasphemy is considered a criminal offense t.co/zyJlZnAEwS 19) Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party t.co/6asFIyiLr9 20) PM Cameron of the UK, where authorities destroyed documents obtained by The Guardian exposing civil rights violations committed by his government and threatened prosecution t.co/VLS13dnckJ 21) Saudi ambassador to France. The Saudis publicly flogged blogger @raif_badawi for insulting Islam on Friday t.co/ZTlPCGa6u5 without even mentioning bombardments, torture, drones or the the thousands of children who die from inequality every day
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:56:51 +0000
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