Free Speech Ghetto

It is a country whose security services are poorly-trained, underpaid, violence-prone and increasingly infiltrated by religious and fascist currents. It invented euphemism and perpetuates it: the feared riot cops are called Units for the Rehabilitation of Order; their Orwellian-sounding directorate is the Ministry for Protection of the Citizen. Nevertheless, they regularly beat up demonstrators, journalists and civil society actors alike, refuse to investigate documented allegations of mis...

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