Heidi Przybyla: ‘Worldwide Threats to Journalists’ Have Increased Because of Trump

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PRZYBYLA: “Like you said earlier, the only realistic outcome now would be that Pompeo is put in a position of having to rubber stamp whatever the Saudis’ explanation here is that this was some kind of an interrogation which, by the way, we all pointed this out before, but who goes to an interrogation with a bone saw? But that this was some kind of an interrogation that the Saudis had no idea was going to lead to these consequences and a killing. So the implications are really, really significant because we’ve talked from the beginning of this presidency about the potential impact on human rights worldwide. That begins with journalists. I remember vividly a train trip when I talked to an international group to protect journalists, who told me it was within months of Trump taking office that they saw the worldwide threats to journalists going up. And this is kind of the — in the extreme, what is happening now in terms of human rights, not only to journalists, but in several hot spots around the world."