Sentences with phrase «against journalists who»

He said «we will cover the election but we will not pay the money that the EC is demanding and we are going to see what decision the EC is going to take against journalists who intend to cover free and fair and peaceful election in accordance with the constitution of the country.»
Trump's penchant for threatening legal action against journalists who write critically about him is proving to be a powerful example for free speech advocates who want a federal law against using the courts to bully speakers, experts said.

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Since his identity as Hogan's backer was revealed, Thiel's crusade against Gawker has been decried by a number of prominent journalists and defenders of a free press, who note that a billionaire bankrupting a media outlet as part of a personal vendetta raises serious questions about free speech.
He told the audience that if they want to do something to help journalists, they should support blog TechDirt and its founder Mike Masnick, who is being sued by the same lawyer who led Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker over stories TechDirt published about Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email.
Uber investor Ashton Kutcher is defending Uber from comments that one of its executives made on Friday, in which the exec casually threatened to launch a smear campaign against a specific journalist who had written negatively about the company.
And Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One who successfully brought a series of suits against News of the World for publishing pictures of him involved in an orgy, later funded a number of lawsuits against the same tabloid by people who said its journalists had hacked their phones.
The Winklevoss twins are trying, as is Martin Lewis — a British journalist who filed a lawsuit against Facebook for allowing his name to be used in crypto scams on the platform.
If you ask them, I'm pretty sure that most liberal mainstream journalists are against punching conservatives who are peacefully exercising their rights to free speech - and they will probably mean what they say.
Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who locks up many more journalists than does Mr. Putin, who kills his own people when they demonstrate against him, and who has described democracy as a tram which you ride as far as you can get on it before getting off, has for many years enjoyed the warm endorsement of the West.
They and their allies and supporters (such as the 300 + self - identified LGBT and allied scholars, lawyers, journalists, and activists who published the manifesto «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage» — a group that includes respected mainstream figures such as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino) would, I have no doubt, sharply react against the claim that polyamory «is attractive because monogamy is hard.»
Jay Z announced plans to produce a documentary series and full - length movie based on two books Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It by journalist Lisa Bloom who covered the trial against Martin's killer, George Zimmerman, and Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, which covers Martin's life and the aftermath of his death by Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.
That night, for a game against Reno, Huffaker, the public defender, took over the PA duties, announced the 24 - second countdowns in lieu of a shot clock (which Speed kept) and then used the mike to introduce buxom cheerleaders, infant ball boys, puzzled journalists and practically everybody else in the «crowd» who was breathing.
The pressure is appearing to show on Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, who snapped sarcastically at journalists who questioned his side's performance against Real Betis on Saturday.
The journalist claims that Alexis Sanchez is a «cut or four above» the rest of our players, and that he was exactly that against Cologne and West Brom in our recent wins, but anybody who has seen those matches, knows he has not been at top form.
The ex-Arsenal winger, who played for Villareal in their 0 - 0 draw against Manchester United midweek, was questioned by popular Spanish journalist Guillem Balague about his old club and came up with these excellent answers:
Along the way, Warnock points the finger of blame at: Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benàtez and Alex Ferguson, for all playing weakened teams in their respective clubs» matches against United's relegation rivals; the officials who allowed West Ham to win at Blackburn with a «goal» that didn't cross the line; Times journalist Pete Lansley, for upsetting goalkeeper Paddy Kenny by asking about his troubled personal life in an interview; the FA («rank amateurs»), for not punishing West Ham for fielding two ineligible players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano; and finally David Unsworth, for contriving a costly penalty miss for United against Blackburn midway through the season but then scoring from the spot at Bramall Lane for Wigan in the game that sent the Blades down at the Latics» expense.
On Sept. 20, it will sponsor a live debate at NYU's Skirball Center in New York with ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams and journalist Hanna Rosin (you may know her from her controversial Atlantic article last year, The End of Men), who will argue for the idea, while feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers and Men's Health magazine editor - in - chief David Zinczenko arguing against it.
England is out, their government is against him and even the journalists who released his information.
Three women who worked with Charlie Rose filed a sexual harassment lawsuit Friday against CBS News and the television journalist, seeking unspecified damages.
Laws based on that misguided assumption have resulted in an almost open - ended campaign against basic freedoms that have drawn the ire of journalists, humanitarian activists and leading Muslim intellectuals who have had their rights infringed in the name of protecting national security.
Once aboard, Hizzoner — who was joined by a pack of journalists — launched into a diatribe against Cuomo and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who last week blamed de Blasio for refusing to spend the city's $ 4 billion - plus budget surplus to fix the subways.
In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.
The most cogent argument against statutory regulation is that the state would be the body authorising journalists, who are tasked with challenging its power and holding it to account.
Federal prosecutors have decided that Evan Engel, a 2004 Brighton High School graduate who was covering the pre-inauguration unrest in Washington, D.C., was a journalist and they have dismissed a felony rioting charge against him.
The soldiers who allegedly accused the journalists of writing against them climbed to their one storey building and attacked them just as they also smashed their gadgets.
They traveled the world together and were two of the women who broke down barriers that discriminated against women journalists in the nation's capitol.
Sarah Garland, a journalist who spent years writing about MS - 13 on Long Island, says this focus to provide aid to students rather than to go on an all - out offensive against MS - 13 might work better to end gang violence in Suffolk.
Many people - including members of the media who perpetuate this stereotype against Fulanis are simply ignorant and as a trained journalist, I am scandalized when I see news headlines associating crime with an ethnic group.
Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling human rights conditions, where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people — human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.
Speaking further, he said, «The PDP is aware of clandestine plots against key opposition leaders, particularly members of the PDP National Working Committee, some dissenting members of the APC, members of the civil society, opinion leaders, journalists and bloggers, who refuse to succumb to intimidation and that such persons have already been listed and currently being trailed by agents of the state.
Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu who lead the team of police officers to make the arrest told journalists that the fight against galamsey is very difficult but the ministry will not give up.
The MFWA is thus calling on the leadership of the Ghana police Service to immediately investigate the incident and bring to book the officers who perpetrated the violent crime against the journalist.
• The Lib Dems have unanimously backed a call for beefed - up sanctions against media owners and journalists who act unethically, including prison sentences for those who get data by unlawful means.
Some journalists who were close to the main gate of the Sharks Stadium could not take photographs after one of the security operatives cautioned them against taking any shot.
Baldwin was the Times journalist who named the weapons expert as the secret source behind the BBC's claim that the Blair government had «sexed up» a dossier about Iraq's «weapons of mass destruction'to justify going to war against Saddam Hussein.
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The principal witness testifying against Captain Lord was a second donkeyman in engineering (a junior supervisor), Ernest Gill, who hated Lord, and supplied his damning testimony after being paid nearly a year's salary by a journalist for his story.
«It is extraordinary how many patients describe themselves as collateral in the war against drugs,» where law enforcement concerns for potential abuse take precedent over the medical imperative to treat suffering, said author — journalist Melanie Thernstrom, who participated on the committee as a patient advocate.
Myanmar sought charges Wednesday against two Reuters journalists who stand accused of breaching the state secrets act, in a case that has So far, the first portion of the 21st century has been marked by the economic rise of China.
Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.
Needless to say, a historical drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep is pretty much the Platonic ideal of awards season wild cards, even before you factor in the extent to which a movie about the journalists who declassified the Pentagon Papers might dovetail with current events (every vote is a vote against «fake news»).
The R - rated superhero blockbuster, directed by Ruben Fleischer, stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, the investigative journalist who goes up against Dr. Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) and his harmful scientific experiments.
An expat from Britain who lives in Austin, Texas, Wakefield allowed Miranda Bailey and her team to follow him and his family for five years beginning in 2011 as he fought a defamation battle in the courts against the British Medical Journal and journalist Brian Deer.
But Spielberg's film — which alludes to the coming of Nixon's presidency - ending scandal in a coda — triumphs as an energizing call to arms against any political tyrant who'd deny journalists the right to speak truth to power.
With Depp playing Poole, Whitaker will play a journalist who teams up with him to help solve the case, and both men will have «a reason to seek redemption in an effort that sets them against the cops.»
Directed by award - winning investigative journalist Peter Landesman (who was included in the list of film - makers on the rise), Concussion centers on Omalu (Smith), the Nigerian forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who inadvertently found himself in a war against the National Football League after discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in football players who took countless blows to the head playing the sport.
This was a time of terrible repression and oppression against the leaders and members of those movements: students, journalists, artists, and any thinking person who dared think different, and expressed it.
Readers follow Scott McGrath, a journalist who watched his career crumble after leveling a threat against Stanislas Cordova — an elusive cult filmmaker reminiscent of early horror visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock and Dario Argento.
Among this cast of memorable characters is a BBC journalist with her own demons, determined to expose injustice against Afghan women; a rich Boston divorcée who finds self - worth in taking up the cause; the tradition - scoffing Afghan woman who works with Sunny; and the lovely young woman from Nuristan whom Sunny takes in and gives new life to.
The head of Xbox Phil Spencer has come out swinging against games journalists who are writing clickbait reviews to profit from ad revenue, explaining that misrepresenting the quality of Microsoft's games in order to make money is a disgusting, reprehensible behaviour, unless he and his marketing team are doing it.
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