Tag: Samuel Paty

Marco Pirolini accused French President Emmanuel Macron of doubling down on a "smear campaign" against French Muslims over the murder of Samuel Paty By Havva Kara Aydin Ankara: Amnesty International on Saturday accused the French government of not being the "champion of free speech that it likes to think it is," criticizing recent rhetoric by the government as "shameful hypocrisy." "The French government's rhetoric on free speech is not enough to conceal its own shameless hypocrisy," said Marco Pirolini, a researcher in the rights group, adding that freedom of expression "means nothing...