British journalists could face jail for publishing leak stories that embarrass the government

Chilling new proposals By Dan Frieth | Reclaim the Net | July 20, 2021

As if there needed to be yet another threat to free speech in the UK, British journalists could face 14-year prison sentences for publishing stories embarrassing the government, under proposed reforms to the Official Secrets Act. According to the government, the new proposals will crack down on foreign spies but many fear it could even be used domestically.

British journalists could face jail for publishing leak stories that embarrass the government

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I’m on a ‘hit list’ Kiev allows to silence dissent & journalism. That’s all you need to know about Ukrainian ‘democracy’

June 12, 2021, RT.com

Address issues which Ukraine, the West’s client state, does not like and you could end up on a ‘hit list’. Because that’s apparently how flourishing democracies roll…

I’m on a ‘hit list’ Kiev allows to silence dissent & journalism. That’s all you need to know about Ukrainian ‘democracy’

Appeals court temporarily halts protections for journalists, legal observers in Portland

Appeals court temporarily halts protections for journalists, legal observers in Portland

“Given the order’s breadth and lack of clarity, particularly in its non-exclusive indicia of who qualifies as “Journalists” and “Legal Observers,” appellants have also demonstrated that, in the absence of a stay, the order will cause irreparable harm to law enforcement efforts and personnel,” two of the three judges wrote. “This means that journalists could be subjected to the same physical force as that of the individuals participating.”

China takes direct aim at rumormongering US media – Global Times

Diao Daming, a US studies expert at Renmin University of China in Beijing, told the Global Times that the reason why the five media outlets are listed is simple: “ideological bias against China, cooking up fake news under the disguise of press freedom, and breaches of journalism ethics,” and these five media outlets have shown all these tendencies in covering China story.  

The impact on the five US media is obvious, Diao said. “If they can’t report news about China based on facts, then their reports should be reduced and even banned, as they have lost qualifications to report China to the English-speaking world.”

Asked if the US government would escalate the confrontations against China, Diao noted that “based on current US actions against Chinese journalists, and some extreme insults and stigmatizations made by US senior politicians against China, it showed that the US government is losing basic rationality, and we can’t use normal logic to predict the US anymore.”
— Read on www.globaltimes.cn/content/1182956.shtml

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