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   Jamie Osborne (jmeosbn@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 00:59:15 JST Jamie Osborne

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   Haaretz had part of the story on Israel’s ‘war’ on the ICC two years ago, but the journalist was threatened by security services. Now they’ve published another, redactions included.

   #FreedomOfThePress (or not)

   — ‘Amid growing concern over Israel’s censorship regime, enforced by the military censor’s office and by gag orders issued by the courts, Haaretz published an article on Wednesday with blacked out words and sentences to demonstrate the scale of redactions.’

   https://archive.ph/20240530093145/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-05-29/ty-article-opinion/.premium/reason-for-detention/0000018f-c0d3-dade-adef-ecfb884f0000

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     Jamie Osborne (jmeosbn@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 00:59:16 JST Jamie Osborne

     #NotADemocracy

     — ‘The conversation began with the words, ‘We understand you know about the prosecutor.’”

     Megiddo said it was “explained that if I published the story I would suffer the consequences and get to know the interrogation rooms of the Israeli security authorities from the inside”.

     “In the end, it was made clear to me that even sharing the information ‘with my friends abroad’, referring to foreign media outlets, would lead to the same results.”’

     https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says

     Aral Balkan repeated this.