Cambodian Government Cites Trump in Threatening Foreign News Outlets – The New York Times

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Cambodian Government Cites Trump in Threatening Foreign News Outlets

Critics said the warning could herald a new effort to suppress free speech by authoritarian governments emboldened by the U.S. president’s words.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/world/asia/cambodia-trump-press-freedom.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

The Facebook comments “show pretty clearly that as soon as there are perceptions that the United States has wavered on its commitment to press freedom, then countries with authoritarian tendencies are very quick to abandon any pretense of allowing the media to operate freely,” said Shawn W. Crispin, the Bangkok-based Southeast Asia representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonpartisan advocacy group based in New York