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Media restrictions threat to freedom of expression in Pakistan, says Blinken ANI | Updated: Apr 30, 2021 10:45 IST
Washington [US], April 30 (ANI): USSecretary of StateAntony Blinken has said that media and content restrictions are a threat to the ability to exercise the right to freedom of expression and association in Pakistan.
Addressing a virtual roundtable, the senior US official expressed concern over significant restrictions on media outlets and civil society in Pakistan, while speaking on lack of accountability for attacks and disappearances against journalists in the country, reported Geo News. We ve documented some of this in our Country Reports on Human Rights practices, and we see media outlets, journalists, their families in Pakistan often subject to threats, harassment at the hands of security forces, political parties, militants, other groups, he said.
inverted, when he started coming to the summits he questioned the very validity of nato and didn t want to articulate his support for article five, and now accusing other countries not being sufficiently pro-nato, it is a remarkable shift. and the common foe being the ussr, russia and suggested there may not be a foe anymore and there is an idea in nato circles that nato should be more of a counter-terrorism force to fight isis, to fight extremists across the globe and as i mentioned that, i realized there is one country that i neglected to mention in the president s tour around the world in the press conference and that is iran. he talked about the protests there. and he talked about, and inflated the number a little bit, saying thousands of deaths. now let s be clear. because the media restrictions, we don t have a good count on the death. there and the president may have better intel than we do but the rorns i ve seen, and i know you follow this closely as well is in the hundreds
china made promises it would allow foreign media and would release or ease up on media restrictions. and i was making some positive comments about this, that there might be hope for china. and she took me down a peg. or maybe more than one or two pegs. she said i was foolish and naive to think there would be any long-term concessions from the o government. do you believe her now? gao yu was right, and i was wrong. bob deets there from the committee to protect journalists. staying in china now. an experimental plane powered solely by the sun has been grounded indefinitely by bad weather. it is attempting to fly around the world on solar energy alone. cnn s david molko reports from chung ching. . reporter: call it the world s longest layover. a plane meant to fly around the
two reuters journalists in 2007 came to light as a result of manning s leaks after the military refused reuters request to access it. in similar fashion, manning s trial has been subject to tight media restrictions. no cameras or electronic devices allowed in court and no official transcript has been made available. reporters are being subject to intensive searches upon entering the courtroom and are watched over by armed military police officer in the media filing center. joining us now from denver is salon columnist and best selling author, david ceroda, and clark stek ley. clark, are you one of the very few people that s been in the room as the manning trial has unfolded. can you tell us about the climate inside the courtroom and what you ve seen so far? well, it is a very tense climate in the courtroom right now. we just saw the wrapping up of closing arguments on thursday and friday. the prosecution took the