‘Don’t be naive like I was’: UK academic advises Cop28 attenders to stay safe | Matthew Hedges, tortured in UAE in 2018, tells reporters and activists to take clean phones and watch who they deal with
‘Don’t be naive like I was’: UK academic advises Cop28 attenders to stay safe | Matthew Hedges, tortured in UAE in 2018, tells reporters and activists to take clean phones and watch who they deal with
Matthew Hedges, tortured in UAE in 2018, tells reporters and activists to take clean phones and watch who they deal with
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For anyone confused like I was, he's saying this to protestors.
I think this will be the model for future global conferences and events ... host them in totalitarian countries where protesting will either be very hard or impossible.
Not that we had much democracy left in the western world .. the worse the world becomes, the more extreme our governments will react.
Yup, sounds about right. Plus less tolerance
of freedom of assembly, and civil disobedience in major Western democracies will continue.
Journlists and campaigners.
I was gonna ask that. I didn't think some random UN conference would be that bad for the attendees.