The editors of the Guardian, Financial Times, Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror have joined together in a rare show of unity urging the Government to look at reform to protect Freedom of Information (FoI) rights.
A dozen current and former Fleet Street editors have joined a call for a review into the Government’s use of FoI, raising “serious concerns” their policies are contributing to a culture of declining press freedom in the UK.
They have been joined by staunch critics of the newspaper industry such as Hacked Off founder Brian Cathcart and founder of rival press regulator Impress Jonathan Heawood.
Natalie Strecker with a solidarity poster for Issa Amro. Screenshot from youtube video. Feb. 4, 2021.
The anti-apartheid activist Issa Amro is to be sentenced by an Israeli military court on February 8 for a bunch of trumped-up charges relating to his nonviolent resistance over many years. And as we noted yesterday, politicians from around the globe have questioned the case, and Amnesty International and the UN have called for Israel to drop the charges.
The case has a special resonance because Amro works in a city that epitomizes apartheid, Hebron, and just last month the leading Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said Israel is an apartheid state, maintaining a “regime of Jewish supremacy” from the river to the sea.