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Press Freedom – Mogherini: "It is in the Turkish interest to be consistent with its commitments" – Video

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EN - Foreign Affairs Council - Press Conference by High Representative Federica Mogherini - Questions and Answers (extract) - 15.12.2014 - Brussels. David Carretta, Radio Radicale: "And if...

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Freedom Industries owners indicted, charged in chemical leak

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Four owners and managers of Freedom Industries have been indicted and charged with federal violations of the Clean Water Act for failing to operate the company in an environmentally sound manner, resulting in the chemical leak that contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 people in January.

Dennis P. Farrell, William E. Tis, Charles E. Herzing and Gary L. Southern are each charged with three counts of violating the Clean Water Act.

Each man is charged with failing to meet a reasonable standard of care in running the company.

Their negligence resulted in and caused the discharge of a pollutant, that is, MCHM, from point sources into the Elk River, according to the indictment, unsealed today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane L. Tinsley.

The second count against each man is for unlawful discharge of refuse matter, and the third count is for negligent violation of permit condition.

Farrell, an owner of Freedom, is charged for his involvement with the company from Feb. 2002 to Jan. 9, 2014, the day of the spill.

Tis and Herzing, also owners, are charged for their involvement in the company from 2004 through at least Dec. 6, 2013.

Southern, the former chief operating officer of Freedom, is charged for his involvement with the company from May 2009 through Jan. 9, 2014.

In addition to the environmental charges, Southern also faces charges related to allegedly false statements he made to a federal bankruptcy court after the leak, as well as wire fraud and trying to conceal assets from the bankruptcy court.

Farrell, Tis, Herzing, and Southern failed to exercise their authority to ensure that Freedom operated the Etowah Facility in a reasonable and environmentally-sound manner when they knew or should have known of the facts and circumstances constituting Freedoms negligence, the indictment unsealed today says.

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Arrests of Turkish journalists widely condemned across the world

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Ekrem Dumanli, editor-in-chief of the Zaman newspaper, waves to staff as he is arrested. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images

The arrests of journalists in Turkey have been deplored by international human rights organisations, press freedom groups and UK journalists bodies.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the arrests will harm media freedom and chill free speech. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called it a brazen assault on press freedom and Turkish democracy.

The New York-based Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) described the heavy-handed actions as smacking of political vengeance. The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) saw the arrests as part of a trend by Turkeys government in recent years to use terrorism accusations to bring its critics to heel.

English PEN, in company with PEN International, PEN America and PEN Turkey, registered its deep concern at the detention of the five journalists and six screenwriters. Jo Glanville, director of English PEN, said: Authoritarian tactics will only serve to erode the governments standing, the freedom of its citizens and Turkeys international reputation.

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) spoke of animosity towards the media and an exercise of political pressure on journalism by the Turkish authorities.

Britains National Union of Journalists (NUJ) joined in the chorus of condemnation by deploring the arrests. Journalists must have the freedom to write and report without the fear of arrest and detention, it said.

But Turkeys president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, has rejected all such condemnation, including that from the European Union. He argues that the 23 people detained in orchestrated raids on Sunday have close ties with a US-based Islamic cleric, Fethullah Glen, whom he accuses of establishing a parallel organisation inside Turkey.

Glen, who lives in self-imposed exile, was formerly an ally of Erdoan. Now Erdoan claims that Glen has created an influential network within the media, police and judiciary that is seeking to overthrow his government and his political party, AKP.

According to a statement issued by the Istanbul public prosecutors office, the people under arrest have engaged in forgery and slander against the elected government.

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