
Dutch China Critic Intimidated by Unknown Actors
The Dutch Foreign Ministry expressed concern over Marije Vlaskamp and her interviewee, Chinese dissident Wang Jingyu, having faced “such far-reaching intimidation.”
The Dutch Foreign Ministry expressed concern over Marije Vlaskamp and her interviewee, Chinese dissident Wang Jingyu, having faced “such far-reaching intimidation.”
Shortly before the expulsion of the journalists, the government denounced a cooperation and assistance agreement signed with France in 1961.
She didn’t think she had committed any crime in referring to the French president as “a piece of filth” on Facebook. French authorities thought otherwise.
Let’s take Finnish MP Räsänen’s words to heart: “Now it is time to speak. Because the more we are silent, the narrower the space for freedom of speech and religion grows.”
It would appear our entire COVID-19 narrative was controlled from the shadows through an insidious anti-misinformation body, which knowingly censored true content to promote its agenda.
A Swedish police decision to ban Quran burnings is unlikely to stand legally, exposing contradictions between Turkish demands and Sweden’s rule of law.
As national security trumps individual freedom, Sweden will curtail freedom of speech piecemeal, like death from a thousand cuts.
It was exactly one year ago, on a cold, dark winter evening in January 2022, when Paul Coleman arrived in Helsinki for the modern-day heresy trial of Finnish MP Dr. Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola.
The cartoons are featured in a special edition marking the anniversary of the deadly Islamist attack the publisher’s Paris office suffered on January 7th, 2015.
Failing to defend the right to speak freely helps to foster a culture in which people must self-censor, leading to a society that is radically changed for the worse.