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By arresting people for inconvenient journalism and anti-government social media activity, the Jeanine Áñez government has signaled an open assault on freedom of expression. @CarwilBJ/1212373540114194432?s=19
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By broadening its effort to criminalize dissent, the Áñez government is continuing the turn to treating opposition protest as criminal subversion. This is a major turn in the hemisphere's most active country for protest. woborders.blog/2019/12/19/sedition-arrest-evo/
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If it was previously unclear whether this effort was an attempt to decapitate the MAS-IPSP leadership, or a broader attempt to intimidate opposition organizing. It is now obviously the latter.
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This builds on earlier sedition charges for arrested protesters, an anti-foreigner dragnet in November, and intimidation of journalists in November and December.
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Links to the further arrests are here: @thomascfield/1212012963336531968?s=19