[Peace-discuss] Journalist detained in Helsinki before he could ask about nuclear disarmament ... was Fwd: Sam Husseini Locked Up for Committing Journalism in Public

[Stuart Levy]

You've heard about this story - here is FAIR's take on it, good as ever.

>From the photos in The Sun's coverage, Sam Husseini did have a sheet of
typewriter paper with a sign about nuclear disarmament on it.   That was
the closest thing the Finnish security could find to charge him with.   

 
> [...] the press conference went on to leave intact the two leaders’
> preferred emphasis on nonproliferation over actual disarmament. It was
> just that emphasis—more, Husseini argues (*The Nation*, 7/17/18
> <https://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=3193facc0d&e=690cba8393>),
> about “preserv[ing] the nuclear powers’ monopoly on violence, rather
> than actually ensuring security”—that he had hoped to interrupt.


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Subject: 	Sam Husseini Locked Up for Committing Journalism in Public
Date: 	Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:28:49 +0000
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Sam Husseini Locked Up for Committing Journalism in Public

	
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  Sam Husseini Locked Up for Committing Journalism in Public

by *Janine Jackson*

The Nation: I Came as a Journalist to Ask Important Questions

/The questions Sam Husseini tried to ask (*The Nation*, 7/17/18
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Journalist and FAIR associate Sam Husseini went to the Trump/Putin press
conference in Helsinki with press credentials from *The Nation* and a
couple of questions. Specifically, he wanted to ask both leaders why
they aren’t living up to their commitments under the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, and why they’re blocking the Treaty for the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
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Further, based on the idea that there may be no greater threat than a
weapon that is unacknowledged, Husseini hoped to ask Trump if he would
acknowledge the existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons.

It wasn’t so quixotic: *Reuters* (7/12/18
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/had/ just reported Trump saying his “ultimate” hope for the summit’s
outcome was “no more nuclear weapons anywhere in the world.” But, as
listeners may have heard, Husseini, also an analyst at the Institute for
Public Accuracy
<https://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=3c98185834&e=690cba8393>,
didn’t get to ask those questions. Before the conference started,
Finnish security took him out of the room, saying someone had told them
he had a sign. He did have a small piece of paper, reading “Nuclear
Weapon Ban Treaty,” that he hoped might draw Trump’s or Putin’s
attention, but he was prepared to be told this was against the rules and
to hand it over. As he took it out, though, security officers leapt on
him, knocked his glasses off, and dragged him out of the room, and
ultimately to a detention facility, where they held him incommunicado
until the middle of the night.

The Sun: Gone in a Flash

/Coverage of Sam Husseini’s removal in the *Sun *(7/16/18
<https://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c9a7acd6f8&e=690cba8393>),
a British “newspaper.”/

Finnish police couldn’t come up with anything to charge Husseini with.
But some media could, implying
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with quotes around the word “journalist” that Husseini might not be one,
or highlighting that he wasn’t hanging out with the rest of the pool.
It’s true, Husseini is not one to pal around with corporate reporters
and he’s often an unwelcome sight to the political figures he
confronts—at the National Press Club and elsewhere—with questions they’d
rather avoid.

Confusion about whether it still counts as journalism when it’s
challenging to power is as distressing an assessment of today’s elite
media as you need, but consider also that, after Husseini’s removal, the
press conference went on to leave intact the two leaders’ preferred
emphasis on nonproliferation over actual disarmament. It was just that
emphasis—more, Husseini argues (*The Nation*, 7/17/18
<https://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=3193facc0d&e=690cba8393>),
about “preserv[ing] the nuclear powers’ monopoly on violence, rather
than actually ensuring security”—that he had hoped to interrupt.

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