With the recent displeasure from the UK towards Somaliland about the way she treats the press, it's worth to inform reer sspot that Britain too is complicit in regard to curtailing press freedoms as seen in this article:
Journalists in the UK are less free to hold power to account than those working in South Africa, Chile or Lithuania, according to an index of press freedom around the world.
Laws permitting generalised surveillance, as well as a proposal for a new espionage act that could criminalise journalists and whistleblowers as spies, were cited by Reporters Without Borders as it knocked the UK down two places from last year, to 40th out of 180 countries in its World Press Freedom Index.
In the past five years, the UK has slipped 12 places down the index. Rebecca Vincent, RSF’s UK bureau director, said this year’s ranking would have been worse were it not for a general decline in press freedom around the world, making journalists in Britain comparatively better off than those in countries such as Turkey and Syria.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/26/uk-world-press-freedom-index-reporters-without-borders
Now obviously the UK is light years ahead of Somaliland when it comes to general freedoms, however, why is the UK acting holier than thou when it comes to Somaliland's domestic affairs when the UK is routinely supporting and supplying the Saudis who treats half the population as paraiahs (women) and is currently ruining the lives of innocent Yemenis?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...d-saudi-air-campaign-in-yemen-even-as-strike/
More importantly, the UK has rarely been a positive/beneficial stakeholder regarding Somali affairs since colonial times and this can be seen in these two recent events:
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKL5N1E95RZ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/10/ethiopia-forces-human-rights-funding
Journalists in the UK are less free to hold power to account than those working in South Africa, Chile or Lithuania, according to an index of press freedom around the world.
Laws permitting generalised surveillance, as well as a proposal for a new espionage act that could criminalise journalists and whistleblowers as spies, were cited by Reporters Without Borders as it knocked the UK down two places from last year, to 40th out of 180 countries in its World Press Freedom Index.
In the past five years, the UK has slipped 12 places down the index. Rebecca Vincent, RSF’s UK bureau director, said this year’s ranking would have been worse were it not for a general decline in press freedom around the world, making journalists in Britain comparatively better off than those in countries such as Turkey and Syria.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/26/uk-world-press-freedom-index-reporters-without-borders
Now obviously the UK is light years ahead of Somaliland when it comes to general freedoms, however, why is the UK acting holier than thou when it comes to Somaliland's domestic affairs when the UK is routinely supporting and supplying the Saudis who treats half the population as paraiahs (women) and is currently ruining the lives of innocent Yemenis?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...d-saudi-air-campaign-in-yemen-even-as-strike/
More importantly, the UK has rarely been a positive/beneficial stakeholder regarding Somali affairs since colonial times and this can be seen in these two recent events:
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKL5N1E95RZ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/10/ethiopia-forces-human-rights-funding
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