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    Journalist Ashfin Rattansi reportedly barred from UK Media Freedom Conference Archived Message

    Posted by margo on July 5, 2019, 5:50 pm

    Off to a good start ....

    Global Conference for Media Freedom: London 2019

    Canada's Christa Freeland and Jeremy Hunt and his appointed UK Special Envoy on Media Freedom Amal Clooney are hosts # Defend Media Freedom.

    Hunt: "Now more than ever we have to protect journalists so they can hold people in power to account and help society to flourish".

    Foreign Office @foreignoffice: "Journalism is not a crime" / "Despite constant danger, Radio Fresh continues to report from Idlib, shining a spotlight on the conflict in Syria".

    Amal Clooney will chair a panel "comprising the world's best legal minds to develop and promote legal mechanisms to prevent and reverse media abuses".

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