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Tucker: Big Tech censors dissent over coronavirus lockdowns via @YouTube
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Has little challenge as do corrupt politicians as long as #FreeSpeech is suppressed. The #NumberOne #HumanRight that made #AmericaGreat. The principle upon which the internet was made to acquire knowledge and exchange ideas. Let’s reflect on that #MothersDay
With out #SydneyPowell speaking up for #GeneralFlynn America wouldn’t know the general Is an American Hero set up by those involved in #ObamaGate. They would still think @POTUS was a Russian Agent when it was @HillaryClinton @DNC aid for and organized #Spygate
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May 3 was #WorldPressFreedomDay. It is quite interesting that certain Iranians who consider themselves “journalists” did not say a word about the Iranian regime’s crackdown against true journalists inside #Iran.

Why? They are Iran apologists/lobbyists.

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One example is @NegarMortazavi. She was more concerned about pushing Tehran’s talking points on U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Of course, nothing else is expected from someone who has such close relations with @JZarif.
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Another example is @farnazfassihi. Again, not one word about #Iran’s crackdown against true journalists inside the country. Yet she eagerly RTs anti-Trump tweets to score cheap political points.

And, Fassihi is quite fond of Iran's now dead chief terrorist Qassem Soleimani.
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1. As we mark #WPFD2020 during this week, we celebrate the work of so many journalists under pressure.

#COVIDー19 is creating new threats for #pressfreedom worldwide.

📱 Read @MeeraSelva1's piece
🧵A few examples in this thread
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/he…
2. 🇭🇺 "[A new law] threatens jail terms of up to five years for those who spread false information that hampers the fight against the pandemic."

Hungarian independent journalist @andraspe writes on Viktor Orbán's latest power grab niemanreports.org/articles/the-t…
3. 🇮🇹 A Russian official has posted threats about journalist
@jacopo_iacoboni on #Facebook. Iacoboni had asked questions about the #coronavirus support Russia is providing to Lombardy, which has led to Russian troops on Italy's streets. From @article19org article19.org/resources/russ…
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May 3 is #WorldPressFreedomDay

This thread is a reminder of how the regime in #Iran treats journalists.

Iran ranked 173rd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2020 World Press Freedom Index.
rsf.org/en/iran

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"State control of news & information is unrelenting & at least 860 journalists & citizen-journalists have been imprisoned or executed since 1979."
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Iran’s Cyber Police has arrested thousands of Iranians during the coronavirus epidemic for exposing the regime’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis.
irannewswire.org/irans-cyber-po…
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On #WorldPressFreedomDay2020 we should celebrate the work of reporters and make sure they can do their job in these tough times, writes our own @MeeraSelva1 as we launch a fund to bring more journalists under pressure to Oxford

🧵Details in this thread
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/co…
2. The pandemic has intensified existing pressures on journalists and created new threats in countries such as Hungary, Venezuela, China, India and the UK. This piece details some of those threats
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/he…
3. #COVIDー19 is being especially tough for journalists and news organisations in Latin America. This piece (in Spanish) by @eduardosuarez explains why washingtonpost.com/es/post-opinio…
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Took this photo past 2am July 2016. Drug suspects, police claimed. Father was pleading to be interviewed. He wanted to tell the truth.

12 hrs later, they were dead. "Nanlaban" inside a police station. Saw their dead bodies at the morgue.

Still haunts me to this day.

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The death of father-and-son Renato and Jaypee Bertes turned a Pasay City police station into a crime scene with blood splattered on the floor. It was one of the 1st cases of "nanlaban" under PH drug war.

Jaypee left a pregnant wife and a 2-yr-old girl.

Why were the Berteses killed?

Police first said Jaypee tried to grab a policeman's gun with the help of Renato.

July 7, 2016 police incident report said it was the 2 of them who attacked and grabbed the gun.

Sworn statements of 2 police said it was Renato who grabbed the gun.
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