Unity March Is Just An Eye Wash. Its a MARCH Of Hypocrisy - These staunch defenders of the free press are attending todays solidarity rally in Paris . 1) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr (second highest after Syria) ➟ en.rsf.org/press-freedom-barometer-journalists-kille… 2)The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters ➟ washingtonpost/…/washington-post-reporter-a…/ 3) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for insulting a government servant ➟ en.rsf.org/russie-journalist-arrested-after-17-09-20… 4) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year .. ➟ en.rsf.org/greece-riot-police-injure-woman-13-06-201… 5) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in 99 ➟ amnesty.org/…/no-justice-victims-nato-bombings-2… 6) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for defamation in 2013 ➟ en.rsf.org/slovenia-blogger-gets-six-months-in-jail-… 7) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where blasphemy is considered a criminal offense ➟ en.rsf.org/ireland-making-blasphemy-an-offence-takes… 8) The PM of Georgia who have a record of attacking & beating journos ➟ en.rsf.org/georgie-at-least-a-dozen-journalists-27-0… 9) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world ➟ theguardian/…/dec/18/journalist-safety-turkey 10) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days ➟ dailynewsegypt/…/photojournalist-shawkan-de…/ 11) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for defaming the army ➟ amnesty.org/…/tunisia-blogger-jailed-military-co… 12) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour. ➟ jpost/…/Jordanian-Palestinian-who-writes-for… 13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses ➟ https://cpj.org/…/malian-army-expels-french-journalist-from… 14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them) ➟ cpj.org/…/02/attacks-on-the-press-in-2013-bahrain.php 15) Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem ➟ aljazeera/…/qatar-court-upholds-sentence-aga… 16) Foreign Minister Lamamra of Algeria, which has detained journalist Abdessami Abdelhai for 15 months without charge ➟ en.rsf.org/algerie-journalist-held-without-trial-in-… 17) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links ➟ https://cpj.org/…/uae-authorities-release-egyptian-journali… 18) Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party ➟ en.rsf.org/poland-violating-confidentiality-of-20-06… 19) The PM of Bulgaria, of who have a record of attacking & beating journos ➟ en.rsf.org/bulgarie-police-attack-journalists-coveri… 20) PM Cameron of the UK, where authorities destroyed documents obtained by The Guardian and threatened prosecution ➟ en.rsf.org/uk-government-s-culpable-20-08-2013,45073… Source:---
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