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Czech president Milo\u0161 Zeman has drawn criticism for comments he made about journalists, in which he appeared to make reference to the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI love journalists, that\u2019s why I may organise a special banquet for them this evening at the Saudi embassy,\u201d Zeman said, apparently alluding to Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi\u2019s death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.<\/p>\n

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) also condemned the remark, made on the eve of the Czechoslovak centenary celebrations, on its website.<\/p>\n

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The organisation said the joke was made “in the worst possible taste at the expense of journalists” as well as calling on Zeman to apologise.<\/p>\n

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The president has a history of rubbing reporters up the wrong way \u2014 he greeted journalists with a dummy Kalashnikov at a press conference in October 2017 and in May 2017, he said journalists should be \u201cliquidated\u201d because \u201cthere are too many of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe condemn the Czech president\u2019s latest appalling provocation towards journalists,\u201d said Pauline Ad\u00e8s-M\u00e9vel, the head of RSF\u2019s EU-Balkans desk. \u201cIt is sickening to see him take his cynicism to this level. He must apologise to the journalistic community and stop these nauseating jibes.”<\/p>\n

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The joke “has fueled concerns about new attacks against journalists,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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RSF wrote on its website that the Czech Republic was a source of growing concern about the threats to media freedom, a concern that it said was reinforced by yesterday\u2019s comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Via Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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