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Celebrating One-Year Anniversary Of My UK Ban
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Feeling grateful for supporters in the UK and around the world who have demanded my UK travel ban be overturned. Because of you — and the help of UK Member of Parliament John Hemming, it expires today.
To mark the ban’s one-year anniversary, Trevor Pitman, member of the parliament of Jersey (the British Crown dependency where I was conducting research before I got the boot) launched a petition on Change.org, urging the UK government to restore my UK Tier-1 visa.
Without this, it is unlikely I will be able to finish my work. Please, if you believe in defending a free press, take 10 seconds to sign this petition. Surrounded by ocean, Jersey has been isolated in its struggle for a free and fair democracy for far too long. It should be able to welcome journalists, not ban them.
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Signed…there may be nothing in the allegations, but banning a nosy journalist doesn’t look good.
Jersey’s ‘secrecy culture’ led to my suspension, says former police chief
Graham Power claims he was punished for daring to investigate allegations against some of the island’s power players
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/28/jersey-secrecy-culture
Signed. Jersey needs to come into the 21st Century, the story she was investigating need to be properly told.