Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero is a lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Granada. She researches extreme speech, both textual and visual, and is a specialist on extremism in Sri Lanka; photographic representations of terrorism; and anti-Muslim prejudice online.
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