Ex-AFP news chief Michele Leridon dies
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04/05/2021 - 12:18 Michele Leridon was beloved by many during her nearly 40 years with AFP Fred DUFOUR AFP/File 2 min
Paris (AFP)
French journalist Michele Leridon, who broke through glass ceilings to become the first woman appointed as global news director of Agence France-Presse, has died suddenly at the age of 62, it was announced Tuesday.
Leridon spent nearly 40 years at the agency before becoming a member of the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) which oversees French TV and radio. A woman of conviction, Michele Leridon was a great journalist, unanimously respected for her rich experience and great intellectual rigour, the CSA said in a statement.
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‘Forced confession’ victims urge CGTN and CCTV ban
AFP, PARIS
Thirteen people who describe themselves as “victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television” are urging European satellite operator Eutelsat to reconsider carrying Chinese channels China Global Television Network (CGTN) and China Central Television 4 (CCTV4).
The letter published by human rights watchdog Safeguard Defenders details a list of contraventions that the signatories have said China is guilty of using to extort confessions from them and “refuse the right to a fair trial.”
“We are asking you . to determine whether television providers in democratic societies ought to continue to be morally complicit in the broadcast of information that is intentionally twisted and obtained through torture,” the group said.
There are also teachers who, possibly because they are scared, choose to bow their heads, give up teaching certain subjects and when students shout anti-Semitic and anti-Western insults to act as if they hear nothing. It has become almost impossible in most French high schools to talk about either Israel or the Holocaust.
Most journalists seem to prefer avoiding all discussion of the advance of radical Islam in France. They know that those who do so are immediately called racists or Islamophobes and are often threatened, prosecuted, sentenced to heavy fines or fired from their place of work.
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#YearOfTheOx Happy Chinese New Year! May this year of the Ox bring you a prosperous and healthy 2021. Kiong Hee Huat Tsai! #China” this tweet, dated 12 February 2021, is one of the first tweets by a brand new Twitter account created in early February 2020 that gained, within minutes, 11.9K engagement, and more recently, huge popularity in Pakistani media because of a tweet praising the ‘decency and kindness’ of Pakistani men towards women solo travellers.
Beautiful Gwadar Balochistan Pakistan. Peaceful Balochistan, Beautiful Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/km1zQW7EOr Katherine George (@iKatherineGeorg) March 13, 2021
The account shows the picture of a white blonde girl claiming to be a ‘sportsperson, tourist, eReader addict and blogger’, whose name is ‘Katherine George’. It took minutes for the Twitter and Instagram audiences to find out that the pictures posted by the traveller were actually of a Polish girl working in Pakistan with a travel agency, and that