Free Speech in Voices Windward

On an empty Parisian street, world leaders gather for a photo op to pretend they stood with the throngs of people crying the jingo of free speech.

These defenders of free speech include..

1) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour.

2) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world.

3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr (second highest after Syria).

4) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days.

5) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for “insulting a government servant”.

6) Foreign Minister Lamamra of Algeria, which has detained journalist Abdessami Abdelhai for 15 months without charge.

7) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links.

8) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for “defaming the army”.

9) The PMs of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journos.

10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters.

11) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year.

12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in ‘99.

13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses.

14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them).

15) sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem.

16) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abaas who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013.

17) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for “defamation” in 2013

18) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where “blasphemy” is considered a criminal offence.

19) Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party.

20) Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK, where authorities destroyed documentys obtained by the Guardian and threatened prosecution.

21) Saudi ambassador to France. The Saudis publicly flogged blogged Raif Badawi for “insulting Islam” on Friday.

Je ne ai aucune solidarité avec ceux qui tuent la liberté

OC Daniel Wickham // Twitter - Sourced