'Journalists who expose abuses face arrest while those who commit the abuses do so with impunity,' says international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. WorldNews
called ‘great risks in pursuit of greater truth.' The government’s response has been to arrest her and initiate a series of civil and criminal cases that expose her to a maximum sentence of 63 years in prison,” she added.in Myanmar revealed a “cruel irony” of injustice.
“The Maria Ressa case in the Philippines like the Reuters case in Myanmar exposes the cruel irony that I see time and time again in my work. Journalists who expose abuses face arrest while those who commit the abuses do so with impunity,” Clooney said. “Crimes allegedly committed by the authorities in Myanmar and Philippines are currently being examined by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court yet so far it’s only the reporters who are going to jail," she added., mostly initiated by the Duterte government following the news agency’s critical coverage of President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war.
The ICC has taken jurisdiction over the complaint lodged against Duterte, as well as the case filed against Myanmar’s abuses against the Rohingya. Duterte, in turn,Addressing an audience of ministers, journalists, and executives, Clooney said threats to press freedom were not just limited to non- or emerging democracies – even countries that have a “strong tradition of free speech” were not excluded from the phenomenon.
“All governments say they believe in a free press – the right is even enshrined in North Korea’s constitution.... What matters is enforcement of this right," Clooney said.
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