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{
"time": "2010-06-15 13:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Dr. James Rochlin",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2057786\" data-originallang=\"en\">That's a hypothetical case, and I think in any situation we could find loose cannons, where people take things into their own hands. There have certainly been enough of those cases that I personally believe there is some kind of intimidation happening.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2057787\" data-originallang=\"en\">If I could just build on what I was saying once more, in looking at some of the cases where reporters were being hassled or the 32 radio stations were shut down, I pressed the gentleman about this, the one who was a representative of Public Space and a defender of free speech. I pressed him if there were a reason these people were being told they were fired or whatever, and he told me that often in Venezuela journalists are poorly trained. They may get the story wrong, they may not have the facts, and they may say something highly damaging to the government with no factual basis whatsoever. So there are a lot of complications and nuances here.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2057786\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est un cas hypoth\u00e9tique, et je pense qu'il est possible de trouver des d\u00e9linquants partout, des gens qui d\u00e9cident de faire leur propre justice. Il s'est cependant produit suffisamment d'incidents que je qualifierais personnellement de tentatives d'intimidation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2057787\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si je peux pr\u00e9ciser ma pens\u00e9e encore une fois, j'ajouterais que j'ai interrog\u00e9 rondement le repr\u00e9sentant de Public Space, aussi un d\u00e9fenseur de la libert\u00e9 d'expression, au sujet du harc\u00e8lement dont sont victimes les journalistes et de la fermeture de ces 32 stations de radio. J'ai insist\u00e9 pour qu'il me dise si on avait donn\u00e9 une raison quelconque \u00e0 ces travailleurs qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 cong\u00e9di\u00e9s, et il m'a r\u00e9pondu que les journalistes sont souvent mal form\u00e9s au Venezuela. Il se peut qu'ils rapportent mal les faits, qu'ils n'aient pas cherch\u00e9 \u00e0 conna\u00eetre le fond de l'histoire, ou encore qu'ils fassent des d\u00e9clarations non fond\u00e9es qui pourraient nuire grandement au gouvernement. Il faut donc tenir compte de nombreuses complications et nuances dans ces cas-l\u00e0.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/23/dr-james-rochlin-22/",
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"politician_membership_url": null,
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3234444",
"document_url": "/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/23/",
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}
}