Huge steps backwards

[airiefairie]

They are three journalists from the Qatari television Al Jazeera. Their faces could be seen around the social networks advocating the right of free expression, and their sentencing in Egypt last year was called by Amnesty International "a dark day for media freedom".

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[underlankers]

Ah, but now we come squarely to the Middle Eastern dilemma: when democracy promotes the only existing opposition movements the dictators can't destroy, democracy is bad. When dictatorship suppresses these same radicals, dictatorship also becomes unpleasant and thuggish. So which is it, are Arabs damned if they do or damned if they don't?

[mahnmut]

I'm just going to put this here:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/02/01/egypt-video-shows-police-shot-woman-protest

Was anyone held responsible? Wanna make a guess?

Egypt has never been a democracy, not reall. And it won't be any time soon. Not because it doesn't want to, but probably because it doesn't know how.

[htpcl]

I'm inclined to agree with this.