Mr. Chair, my colleague spoke quite a bit about journalists being sent to prison.
My husband was a journalist for a long time and he could not always say what he wanted to say. There is even some repression here in Canada by newspaper owners, but neither he nor his family were ever in danger of being arrested. However, that is what is happening in Iran.
What does my colleague think about the role of freedom of the press in establishing or re-establishing a democracy or keeping democracy alive in a country?