In tweets that quickly went viral, 21-year-old London School of Economics student Daniel Wickham pointed out the hypocrisy of world leaders attending the Paris rally on Sunday in solidarity with press freedom.
Along with over 1.2 million people, world leaders marched to commemorate the victims of the shooting at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, as well as those killed in the hostage situation at a kosher supermarket.
A government and history student, Daniel pointed out that the dignitaries present represented countries that have a more than dubious record of free press.
He published tweets about 21 representatives and has so far been retweeted over 102,000 times.
1) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour http://t.co/giZg7JounI
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr (second highest after Syria) http://t.co/w74zqVHZf9
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
5) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for "insulting a government servant" http://t.co/J4Rca9chuA
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
7) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links https://t.co/15ESrDu1kh
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
9) The PMs of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journos http://t.co/sB0gkTtnJl http://t.co/bnvaAyic5p
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
11) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year http://t.co/Vr8MPsEwWR
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses https://t.co/LByJYLfxIe
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
15) Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem http://t.co/8s1N0wcPC6
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
17) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for "defamation" in 2013 http://t.co/cBVYh4niys
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
19) Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party http://t.co/6asFIyiLr9
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
21) Saudi ambassador to France. The Saudis publicly flogged blogger @raif_badawi for "insulting Islam" on Friday http://t.co/ZTlPCGa6u5
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
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isn't it also hypocritical to follow the religion of peace while being ever ready to take up arms to impose your views on others?
lol who's going to repair the worn down and damaged egos of these commentators...i guess a drowning man will really clutch at straws to save himself..
No doubt all of them are ultimate Hippocrates but Muslim leaders are biggest masters of hypocrisy when blasphemous cartoons were published all over Europe these leaders didn't care to come out of their palaces to join the protesters there wasn't any joint protest of muslim leaders almost 150 children in Pakistani school were killed did any leader care to come here? And now these Hippocrates came out to show their brotherhood for those who published blasphemous cartoons and yet they call themselves leaders o muslim ummah.shame on them.
Good man. Keep it up.
this guy simply naked them
A bunch of hypocrites all of them