{"id":46290,"date":"2019-05-22T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46290"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:10:21","slug":"france-threatens-journalists-with-jail-time-for-exposing-use-of-french-arms-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46290","title":{"rendered":"France threatens journalists with jail time for exposing use of French arms in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/france-threatens-journalists-jail-time-revealing-use-french-arms-yemen\">France threatens journalists with jail time for exposing use of French arms in Yemen<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French journalists could face up to five years in prison and be fined up to $83,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_page\/public\/images-story\/000_14b485.jpg?itok=5GzCSrhr\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France is ranked 32nd out of 180 countries in RSF\u2019s 2019\u00a0World Press Freedom Index (AFP)By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/users\/mee-and-agencies\">MEE and agencies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France has threatened three French journalists with potential jail time for using secret documents to reveal the country&#8217;s involvement in the Yemen civil war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/made-in-france.disclose.ngo\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series of reports<\/a>&nbsp;published in April, investigative journalists from Disclose and Radio France&nbsp;revealed the number of French arms sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.&nbsp;REVEALED: The full extent of US arms deals with Saudi Arabia and UAE<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-full-extent-us-arms-deals-saudi-arabia-and-uae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The documents, authored by France&#8217;s Directorate of Military Intelligence (DSGI), showed that senior French officials had lied about the role of French weapons in the Yemen War.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the publication of the reports in April, Disclose&#8217;s co-founders Geoffrey Livolsi and Mathias Destal and Radio France journalist&nbsp;Beno\u00eet Collombat were asked to attend a hearing at the DSGI headquarters in Paris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three&nbsp;journalists refused to reveal their sources after being questioned by the DSGI on the origin of the document, their work and posts on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journalists&nbsp;used the hearing to defend press freedom and how it was in the public interest to publish details from the leaked DSGI document.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Press Freedom has been protected for more than 130 years under the Press Law of 1881, which gives journalists the right to&nbsp;keep sources confidential.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are concerned that the sole aim of this hearing is to use the threat of prosecution to put pressure on these journalists to reveal their source<\/p><p><em>&#8211; Paul Coppin, Reporters Without Borders<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France threatens journalists with jail time for exposing use of French arms in Yemen French journalists could face up to five years in prison and be fined up to $83,000 France is ranked 32nd out of 180 countries in RSF\u2019s 2019\u00a0World Press Freedom Index (AFP)By\u00a0MEE and agencies France has threatened three French journalists with potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[333,336,6741,901],"class_list":["post-46290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-france","tag-free-press","tag-middle-east-eye","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46291,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46290\/revisions\/46291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}