So here are some of the staunch defenders of the free press that attended the solidarity rally in Paris today... 1) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour jpost/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Jordanian-Palestinian-who-writes-for-Post-sentenced-in-Jordan-to-life-with-hard-labor-341596 2) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world theguardian/media/greenslade/2013/dec/18/journalist-safety-turkey 3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last year (second highest after Syria) en.rsf.org/press-freedom-barometer-journalists-killed.html?annee=2014 4) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days dailynewsegypt/2014/12/20/photojournalist-shawkan-describes-endless-nightmare-behind-bars/ 5) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for insulting a government servant en.rsf.org/russie-journalist-arrested-after-17-09-2014,46974.html 6) 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-17-11-2014,47235.html 7) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links https://cpj.org/2013/08/uae-authorities-release-egyptian-journalist-after.php 8) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for defaming the army 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 en.rsf.org/georgie-at-least-a-dozen-journalists-27-05-2011,40365.html en.rsf.org/bulgarie-police-attack-journalists-covering-26-07-2013,44980.html 10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters washingtonpost/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/13/washington-post-reporter-arrested-in-ferguson/ 11) 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-13-06-2014,46435.html 12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in 99 amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/no-justice-victims-nato-bombings-20090423 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 14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them) cpj.org/2014/02/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/news/middleeast/2013/10/qatar-court-upholds-sentence-against-poet-20131021123723850815.html 16) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013 jpost/National-News/Palestinian-journalist-jailed-for-insulting-Abbas-308014 17) 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-16-05-2013,44621.html 18) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where blasphemy is considered a criminal offense en.rsf.org/ireland-making-blasphemy-an-offence-takes-04-01-2010,35672.html 19) Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party en.rsf.org/poland-violating-confidentiality-of-20-06-2014,46487.html 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.html 21) Saudi ambassador to France. The Saudis publicly flogged blogger @raif_badawi for insulting Islam on Friday theguardian/world/2015/jan/09/saudi-blogger-first-lashes-raif-badawi
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