Journalist Ashfin Rattansi reportedly barred from UK Media Freedom ConferenceArchived 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".