Medical groups decried the idea of muzzling or sidelining scientists.
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Rights groups accuse Azeri authorities of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents.
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Still, the Trump administration has a history of muzzling scientific experts.
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Overall, the global trend in academia is towards muzzling opinions deemed offensive.
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The persecution of scientists, and the muzzling and discrediting of the press.
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Haven wanted $10 million in damages and an injunction muzzling the girls.
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It was the latest incident in a series of restrictions muzzling the media.
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But with the government muzzling scientific research, solving the mystery has many barriers.
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Some had masking tape over their mouths, symbolizing a muzzling of the press.
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As for the muzzling, Rennie says that restrictions became much more stringent after 2012.
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In normal times, America would denounce the jailing of journalists and muzzling of newspapers.
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But rights advocates accuse Aliyev's government of muzzling and jailing opponents, charges it denies.
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Why do they insist on muzzling women with information submitted under penalty of perjury?
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But in 2011 the Arab spring erupted, and Arab despots responded by muzzling their critics.
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The president has so far contained the damage to his reputation by muzzling the media.
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Warren takes Bloomberg to task for "muzzling" women at his company with nondisclosure agreements (NDAs).
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On November 4th he publicly denounced Mr Larijani's muzzling measures, and called for greater press freedom.
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Harper moved on from muzzling to extreme budget cuts, and the shutdown of federal science libraries.
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He also began enforcing the law of lèse-majesté, muzzling any criticism of the royal family.
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It is far from clear that Trump would suffer significant actual damages from Daniels' un-muzzling.
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The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, not muzzling speech itself.
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Thiha Saw, the council's secretary, told Reuters that the arrests were not aimed at muzzling the media.
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Critics pointed to it as the latest example of meddling and muzzling by the agency's new leadership.
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Critics likened the directive to muzzling career experts and say it turns a blind eye to enforcement.
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The bottom line is that the president has succeeded in muzzling conservative critics of his economic policies.
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My sense was that when it came to Mr. Trump, Hollywood was still muzzling itself a bit.
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He will win unopposed, after banning the main opposition party, jailing its leader, and muzzling the independent press.
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In China, the government is blocking phrases like "anti-sexual harassment" on social media, effectively muzzling the movement.
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But various European bodies and rights groups have accused President Ilham Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents.
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In November, Magufuli signed into law a bill that journalists said was aimed at muzzling freedom of the press.
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We need spaces where we can be our authentic selves without white people's judgment and insecurity muzzling that expression.
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Some have spoken out about the cost of secrecy, taking aim at censorship and the muzzling of whistle-blowers.
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Across the world, autocratic leaders are engaging in increasingly brazen behavior — rigging votes, muzzling the press and persecuting opponents.
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After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected and the muzzling of government scientists lifted, Bothwell told The Globe and Mail that the experience was both frustrating and embarrassing: "The way [the muzzling] is received by people like me is that these people don't value me and they don't trust me," he said.
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As disseminators of scientific information, as well as basic public service announcements, their muzzling may put American citizens at risk.
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They add that muzzling pollsters reduces the risk that an inaccurate poll at the last minute will influence the result.
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The president in November signed into law a bill that journalists said was aimed at muzzling freedom of the press.
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For weeks, the Chinese downplayed the disease, muzzling doctors and resisting allowing in a team from the World Health Organization.
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China, another authoritarian state, also faced a backlash for censoring social media posts about the outbreak and muzzling state critics.
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" In its statement, the military said, "The Nigerian Army has no intention of muzzling the press or jeopardizing press freedom.
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Masse, who represents the opposition New Democratic Party, says keeping the report secret amounts to "muzzling" the scientist who wrote it.
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But rights groups accuse him of widespread abuses including muzzling of independent media and suppression of political opposition, which he denies.
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The military, which has ruled Pakistan for nearly half its 72-year history, has denied interfering in politics or muzzling the media.
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Business leaders and celebrities, accustomed to muzzling political hot takes for fear of invoking the government's wrath, shared their thoughts and condolences.
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"We have yet to see any pushback, there's been no muzzling, but the uncertainly comes from an obvious place," the author said.
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Various European bodies and human rights groups have accused Azeri President Ilham Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents, charges Baku denies.
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Rights groups, opposition politicians and Western governments say the case is a test of how far Erdogan will go in muzzling dissent.
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Critics say Sisi's popularity since his 2014 election has been hurt by austerity reforms and a muzzling of opponents, activists and independent media.
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The AP said that due to the suspension, pit bulls can still be adopted and muzzling is not mandatory as the law requires.
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China, renowned for censoring what citizens can see on the internet, muzzling state critics, and surveilling its people, has also faced a backlash.
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Opposition activists and rights groups have also accused the military under Bajwa of meddling in politics, limiting civil liberties and muzzling the media.
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A few poets and writers are not enough to save Myanmar from its abundance of problems, which still include the muzzling of free expression.
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In an interview with Fox News last week, Mr. Moon vehemently denied that his government was muzzling North Korean defectors or undermining free speech.
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But a lot of terrible things are bound to happen, too — and it might be impossible to eliminate the bad without muzzling the good.
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But muzzling the 43-year-old opposition activist and his followers seems to have become a preoccupation for much of Russia's law-enforcement system.
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Secrecy is perhaps the ultimate incumbent protection policy, and Trump may profit from muzzling federal agencies like he tries to do with old flames.
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" Mr. Abadi did issue a statement expressing "great sorrow and sad shock" at the execution, and criticizing what he called Saudi Arabia's "mouth-muzzling policy.
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They included beginning work on repealing the national healthcare law, supposedly muzzling government scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency and suggesting a steep border tax.
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Stone's lawyers had argued in court that muzzling their client would hurt him since his work largely involves discussing politics in writing and in interviews.
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During his 22 years in power, Mr. Mahathir was accused by critics of playing race politics, muzzling the news media and locking up his enemies.
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Tempers may eventually cool, but some observers worry that the price of Saudi Arabia backing down will be the muzzling of those pesky Al Jazeera journalists.
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According to scores compiled by Freedom House, a think-tank, the muzzling of journalists and independent news media is at its worst point in 13 years.
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More than a year later, many of the alt-right's main figures have been kicked off social media and mobile banking platforms, essentially muzzling their messages.
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But he has also faced mounting criticism for what human rights groups say are widespread abuses, a muzzling of independent media, and suppression of political opposition.
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" In a resignation letter, Clement accused Zinke and Trump of having "waged an all-out assault on the civil service by muzzling scientists and policy experts.
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But the Trump Pentagon is seeking to sweep this SIGAR bombshell under a rug, muzzling SIGAR in a way that the Obama administration failed to achieve.
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Human rights advocates and Mr. Khan's political rivals accuse the military of selectively targeting Mr. Khan's opponents, and muzzling the press when it has been critical.
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President Donald Trump had senior administration officials sign agreements muzzling them from discussing confidential information even after leaving the White House, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
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During Bajwa's tenure, the opposition has accused the military of meddling in elections and politics to support Khan, while limiting civil liberties and muzzling the media.
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Nazarbayev tolerated no dissent or opposition and was criticized by rights groups who accused him of locking up his critics and muzzling the media, allegations he denied.
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All the sites remove certain content, like child pornography or terrorist violence, but have refrained from trying to "police" their platforms in fear of muzzling free speech.
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Vietnam routinely draws international criticism for its poor record on human rights, especially free speech — for strictly controlling print, radio and television news, and for muzzling blogglers.
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The Liberals are consciously striking a different chord than their predecessors under Stephen Harper, who were accused of muzzling scientists and crafting laws that favored ideology over research.
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So when it comes to issues related to getting revenge for Deflategate in preparation for the Super Bowl, Brady is trying to minimize things by muzzling his pops.
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Beijing has cracked down on free expression since Xi became party boss in 2012, detaining and jailing activists and lawyers, muzzling internet critics and strengthening restrictions on journalists.
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The muzzling of Obama's grassroots support has been blamed for being partly responsible for the Democratic Party's enormous losses in state and local seats over the past decade.
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Mediator This is how the muzzling starts: not with a boot on your neck, but with the fear of one that runs so deep that you muzzle yourself.
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So much harm has been done in the recent past by strong expressions of religious antipathy that local jurisprudence tends to err on the side of muzzling perceived extremism.
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Some were outraged, saying the league is unfairly muzzling the players -- but Moon doesn't agree, and told TMZ Sports it was time to get back to concentrating on football.
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"There is a worthy journalistic line of inquiry Matthews could take about nondisclosure agreements and the role they play in muzzling women and upholding abusive power structures," Bassett wrote.
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Editorial After muzzling a free press and shutting down civil society groups, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has trained its repressive sights on academic freedom.
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By co-opting and undermining political parties, muzzling the media and harassing civil society, the Moroccan regime has left itself with few credible intermediaries at moments of social unrest.
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It's unclear whether this was done directly at the White House's behest, but restrictive gag orders by the Trump administration have already leaked from several federal agencies, muzzling them online.
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This all-too-true story is then "weaponized" against that kingdom's crown prince by a Turkish rival whose own record for muzzling free speech is a matter of public record.
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The case has raised concerns that the military is muzzling reporting on its conflicts with myriad armed groups that claim to fight on behalf of ethnic minorities seeking more autonomy.
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Over the next eight years, Canada went to war on science by preventing researchers from talking to the press (in a word, "muzzling"), and cutting billions in funding for research.
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But the military's influence over Pakistan's courts and its muzzling of the news media have cast a shadow over Mr. Khan's party and its rallying cries for change and transparency.
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The trial comes as Turkey tries to deflect criticism from the European Union - which it aspires to join - and from rights groups that say it is muzzling a once-vibrant press.
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But what made the George W. Bush administration so striking is that it often attacked the underlying science itself, either by muzzling scientists or by ignoring or suppressing the relevant research.
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Kagame, who won a third term in 2017, has faced mounting criticism for what human rights groups say are widespread abuses, a muzzling of independent media, and suppression of political opposition.
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"We have yet to see any pushback, there's been no muzzling, but the uncertainly comes from an obvious place," an author of the report who asked not to be named said.
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"A disturbing pattern is recurring: Donald Trump appears to be muzzling the experts, sticking to happy talk that has no basis in fact," Valliere writes in a note to his clients.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A leading European human rights official has said new Polish plans to reform the judiciary are aimed at muzzling judges and has urged the country's Senate to reject them.
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But there is little reason to think he will stop hounding opponents, including the tens of thousands arrested since the 2016 coup attempt, muzzling the press or picking fights with the West.
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"This is not about Shakir, but rather about muzzling Human Rights Watch and shutting down criticism of Israel's rights record," Iain Levine, program director at Human Rights Watch, said in the statement.
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In states without anti-SLAPP laws, the wealthy can just file frivolous lawsuits, punishing critics and muzzling free speech by bankrupting media and nonmedia defendants alike -- just through the costs of defense.
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During Bajwa's tenure in the military has been accused by opposition politicians of electoral manipulation, meddling in politics, suspension of civil liberties and muzzling the media that helped Khan to power last year.
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Erdogan, frequently accused of interfering with social media and muzzling the press and broadcasters, used modern communications technology nimbly to get his message out to the population of nearly 80 million, outflanking the plotters.
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He has tried to pass legislation aimed at muzzling it and, as has now been revealed by the police charges, has allegedly been involved in secret dealings with media-owners to get favourable coverage.
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But Adams—and other peddlers of medical misinformation, including many anti-vaccine personalities—are also working hard to make their supposed muzzling by social media companies into a selling point and a profit-driver.
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Mr. Trump has received some high-level evangelical endorsements and has told conservative pastors in Florida that his presidency would preserve "religious liberty" and reverse what he called a government-enforced muzzling of Christians.
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ANS TV is owned by three Azeri businessmen and is widely seen as independent in the oil-rich country, where President Ilham Aliyev is accused by opponents of muzzling dissent and jailing his critics.
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Just one day after the largest demonstration for women's rights in American history, the Trump administration went further than any administration ever before in muzzling women's and family health care providers around the globe.
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But before trying to make themselves safer by "muzzling Diane," Borchelt said, the hospital should consider implementing all of the safety precautions recommended by the National Abortion Federation, of which it is a member.
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Dozens of government opponents have faced subversion charges, with critics saying this shows the government is muzzling the opposition by reverting to harsh security laws from the era of Robert Mugabe, who died last September.
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After seven issues it was forced to close, the first paper charged under a muzzling law introduced by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which had shot its way to power two years before.
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The unusual muzzling unfolded at the start of the annual Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, where the reporter sought de Blasio's reaction to The Post's front page story about his administration's many meetings with lobbyists.
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The clerics helped him out but got him to increase the budgets of religious institutions, allowing greater repression of any breach of the sharia in public space, promoting anti-Shiite discourse and muzzling secularist ideas.
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Critics accuse long-ruling Rwandan president Paul Kagame of muzzling the press and dissenting voices, despite his winning international praise for steering the country through a period of rapid economic recovery since the 1994 genocide.
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A senior Chinese official issued a scathing rebuke of Mike Pence on Friday, calling the vice president a liar after he said Beijing was muzzling American businesses and violating the rights of protesters in Hong Kong.
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PiS faced renewed accusations that it was muzzling free media after Poland's media regulator slapped a $415,000 fine on a leading, U.S.-owned news broadcaster TVN24 over its coverage of opposition protests in parliament last year.
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In recent weeks, as the coronavirus spread through China, the government has cracked down on domestic and foreign reporting, muzzling medical professionals and censoring and removing reports and commentaries online that have challenged the official narrative.
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" Warren, who attacked Bloomberg on Wednesday for "muzzling" his accusers with non-disclosure agreements, continued kicking the former mayor on Thursday, saying the former mayor "just shoveled some of his money in to cover it up.
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The plan from Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, would roll back parts of the Dodd Frank reform legislation, a law that was meant to prevent a future financial meltdown by muzzling Wall Street.
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PILDAT said "surreptitious muzzling" of the media, a rise in bias from the military establishment and a "perceived partisanship in judicial and political accountability have nearly eroded the prospects of a free and fair election in 2018".
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In 2017, after a group of lawyers in California persuaded a state legislator to consider a bill that would ban confidentiality clauses muzzling sexual harassment victims, Allred denounced the move and threatened to go on the attack.
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The run-up to the general election has been marred by accusations that the military is meddling in politics and muzzling the media to help usher cricketer turned politician Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) into power.
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Putin has been accused by rights groups of muzzling the media, jailing his opponents and clamping down on civil society over the 19 years in which he has dominated Russia's political landscape and enjoyed consistently high popularity ratings.
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Whether it was abusing the filibuster and stealing a Supreme Court seat, gerrymandering congressional districts to disenfranchise African Americans, or muzzling government climate scientists, Republicans were undermining American democracy long before Trump made it to the Oval Office.
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Why it matters: What the Egyptian government portrays as a strike against fake news, critics see a further muzzling of speech in a country that routinely jails journalists and scores near the bottom of global press freedom rankings.
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The outgoing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party cried foul, noting that the army had come out strongly in Mr Khan's favour, muzzling the press and sending security agents to meddle in polling stations.
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The incident further mars the human rights record of the government led by President Paul Kagame, which faces mounting criticism for what human rights groups say are widespread abuses, a muzzling of independent media, and suppression of political opposition.
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MONTREAL — Several theaters in Quebec are forging ahead with plans to stage "Slav," the show shut down here last week amid accusations of racial myopia, while its director has been lashing out at his critics for "muzzling" artistic freedom.
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Western nations have courted Azerbaijan because of its role as an alternative to Russia in supplying oil and gas to Europe, but various European bodies and rights groups accuse Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents, which Baku denies.
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Debauching the currency, poisoning relations with Europe and America, locking up tens of thousands of innocent people, muzzling the press, reigniting a civil war and fiddling with the constitution to gain the powers of a sultan surely ought to be enough.
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In Washington there appears to be chaos: A vice president with no public health or medical experience has taken the helm of the US Covid-19 containment effort, and the president may be muzzling his best experts on these issues.
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Across the world, autocratic leaders are engaging in increasingly brazen behavior — rigging votes, muzzling the press and persecuting opponents — as they dispense with even a fig leaf of democratic practice once offered to placate the United States or gain international legitimacy.
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A week ago, Ms. Warren displayed the debate skills that once made her a high-school champion, flaying Mr. Bloomberg over his past comments to women and the nondisclosure forms used by his company that she said were muzzling them.
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Beleaguered Egyptian rights activists welcome the Italian clamor as a way of bringing new attention to growing repression in Egypt, where the security forces' muzzling and mistreatment of the local news media is so commonplace that it rarely makes news abroad.
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Over the past couple of weeks, reports have emerged that Chinese authorities may have delayed reporting the outbreak and then downplayed and covered up what they knew, even muzzling a doctor who was trying to warn colleagues about the virus.
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He has also made some curious personnel choices in recent days: putting Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the federal response, and muzzling Dr. Anthony Fauci, the long-serving director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Partisanship, ideology, and personal ambition are all inclined to unite Israel's broader political right behind a comprehensively anti-democratic politics: restricting minority rights, demolishing institutional checks on the prime minister's power, and muzzling critical voices in the media and civil society.
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The owners, Players Coalition and NFL Players Association can address their new post-anthem rule problems (loss of player trust, muzzling player voices and bad public relations) by identifying the current divide between them and resolving the blitz at hand through comprehensive communication.
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Unfortunately, those fears are well-founded if President Trump and his advisors succeed in gutting, muzzling and defunding the EPA (which is clearly their aim -- why else nominate Scott Pruitt, who has made a career out of attacking the agency, to lead it?).
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In the last few days more than 20173 Twitter accounts—some claiming to be from employees at U.S. government agencies—have been set up to protest the actions by President Trump's new administration effectively muzzling federal climate-change research and other science.
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Legislators wanted to know why the platforms had failed to stem the tide of fake news and misinformation in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, why they'd sold political ad space to Russian nationals, why they were supposedly muzzling conservative voices.
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First-amendment rights conversations are rife these days in America, with many on the right accusing those on the left of muzzling their ability to speak — and many engaging in these discussions are doing it for the first times in their lives.
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Editorial Muzzling Al Jazeera, the state-funded news station that has projected Qatar's influence throughout the world, was high on the agenda when Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen moved to isolate the tiny nation on June 5.
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Before it ended, 212 hollow-point rounds later, Ms. Sanders, the first witness to testify in Mr. Roof's federal death penalty trial on Wednesday, found herself underneath a table muzzling her 221-year-old granddaughter so hard she feared she would suffocate her.
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In Toronto, panelists spoke about the unique challenges that Canadian scientists have faced, like their muzzling under Stephen Harper, as well as ongoing issues around diversity in science and tech, including the need for greater inclusion of Indigenous communities and women in Canadian research.
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Now lawmakers and advocates want to empower victims, and make it harder for serial harassers to hide, by restricting the use of nondisclosure agreements, the confidentiality provisions that obscured decades of complaints against Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, and Roger Ailes by muzzling their accusers.
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More recently, the ISI has been accused of muzzling the press, trying to skew last year's elections, and intensifying a crackdown against human rights groups, including the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), an ethnic rights movement that the military accuses of being funded by neighboring countries.
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"Muzzling allows a government to prevent individuals from speaking when the world needs to hear them the most, in a way that is hard for researchers to detect and attribute, all while avoiding the political consequences of large-scale Internet disruption," the report reads.
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"If they have taken even baby steps — much less what appear to be giant strides — into the area of muzzling the normal, permitted recollections about the nonclassified and nonconfidential aspects of White House service, then that's going to trigger the First Amendment protection," he said.
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Transparency has already become an issue since Pence took the reins of the administration's coronavirus reponse, according to critics who have accused the vice president of muzzling public health officials by requiring that they coordinate with his office prior to issuing their own statements.
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For months, it seemed like Mr. Cohn and his allies had succeeded in muzzling Mr. Navarro — blocking at least three attempts to trigger the NAFTA withdrawal process, as well as an earlier directive to impose steel tariffs and withdraw from a South Korea trade agreement.
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And so all of this buying, all of this threats that we will do whatever it takes, these insipient signs of perhaps global recession or perhaps just muzzling along or data that's not as strong as hoped or expected must be scaring policymakers, but they seem paralyzed.
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In April, she didn't simply stop at calling for the passage of legislation Democrats have long tried to get through Congress, which includes a Paycheck Fairness Act that would prohibit employers from muzzling workers' discussions of wages and crack down on companies that pay women less.
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Having cultivated power by diminishing the role of the military in national life, enabling Muslims to practice their faith free of a state-enforced mode of secularism, he has in recent years attacked democratic institutions by crushing dissent, seizing the property of his enemies and muzzling the press.
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But the president has also made moves that more directly target science, including muzzling government researchers from sharing information with the public, and enacting the immigration and refugee ban, which quite literally disrupted the ability of many US scientists to do their work, and barred esteemed researchers from entering the country.
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I experienced a very small taste of the law's muzzling impact firsthand late in 2017, when I co-authored a story about the existence of a Confucius Institute within the New South Wales Department of Education, an unprecedented arrangement placing employees paid by a Chinese entity inside an Australian state government department.
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" When I told him the Trump administration has been actively muzzling federal scientists, specifically those working at the EPA, Fulks replied: "I suspect that President Trump understands this and will cut budgets at the EPA, GISS [NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies], and other places where the taxpayer has not received real value for his tax dollars.
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From the macho threats of nuclear war to the disgraceful ending of a health care program that serves 9 million poor children in America, to taking away tax exemptions on student debt; from building walls and ending DACA to keep out new Americans, to loosening regulations to allow polluting industries to resume polluting, to muzzling science and clamping down on speech.
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For 25 minutes, the group sipped coffee and listened as Mr. Muna laid bare his thoughts on what he described as Israel's muzzling of cultural and religious leaders ("It's created an incredible amount of contradiction in our society"); how he harnesses culture to create more political discourse ("We are politicizing culture because it's the only venue available to us"); and even the spate of Palestinian knife attacks in the city ("Israeli soldiers may be your friends or loved ones, but to us they are a symbol of the occupation, and a legitimate target").
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The following year at the Interior Department, a muzzling of scientific voices by now-former Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE was cited as the cause for the resignation of almost an entire advisory board whose aim was to help the National Park Service care for heritage sites.
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