Thursday, 5 November 2015
The news (or lack of it)
There is a curious silence from a country in the Middle East that I find puzzling. Three (of I'm sure many) cases have received wide press coverage here, of people who have been condemned to the most hideous and brutal punishments for criticising the regime of their country. The reporting has all gone very quiet. Has that country got another arms deal going through? Is it a matter of security issues? Business interests? Political expediency? I'm concerned that the national press seems to have forgotten these people, when it is their duty to keep up the coverage, to put pressure on our government to influence the government of that country. I am worried that if it stays quiet for long enough, then people here might forget all about them, and the three people could then receive their draconian punishments with nobody here being any the wiser. It is very worrying.
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