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Article: Now Ken is kowtowing; The Mayor is subordinating his principles to pragmatism by visiting China, a country that denies even the most basic human rights.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2006
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Byline: JONATHAN FREEDLAND
I WAS at the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards the other day, a ceremony unlike any other. For the nominees were all reluctant: each one of them would prefer a world in which their work was unnecessary.
Take the Index Whistleblowing Award. The nominees were people who had exposed gross wrongdoing in their home countries: a Kenyan journalist who had told the truth about political corruption, a US intelligence analyst who had spoken out about alleged illegal eavesdropping. Not one of them was present: some had been thrown in jail, one had been shot dead.
It made for a strange kind of competition: which ...