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Canada blocks Australia news outlet airing Jaishankar press conference, India says shows ‘hypocrisy towards free speech’
Bilateral ties between
New Delhi and Ottawa plunged to a new low after Canada blocked an Australian news outlet which aired a press conference by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Australian counterpart Penny Wong in Canberra where he made some strong remarks on the India-Canada standoff.
Stating it was “surprised” over the “strange” Canadian move, the Ministry of External Affairs said the action “yet again highlights the hypocrisy of Canada towards freedom of speech”.
Incidentally, Canada and Australia are part of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance that also includes the US, UK and New Zealand.
Hours after
The Australia Today aired Jaishankar’s joint press conference with Wong in Canberra, where he voiced concern over the political space being granted to Khalistan extremists in Canada and noted that India had raised the matter with Australia, several users in Canada complained of the news outlet being blocked and questioned the timing.
In New Delhi, responding to a question on the blocking of
The Australia Today, Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, said, “We understand that the social media handles and pages of this particular outlet, which is an important diaspora outlet, have been blocked and are not available for viewers in Canada. This happened just an hour or a few hours after this particular handle carried the press conference of S Jaishankar along with Penny Wong, and the outlet also had several articles on the (Australia) visit of the External Affairs Minister, as also an interview of him. We were surprised. It looks strange to us.”
“But, nonetheless, what I will say is that these are actions which yet again highlight the hypocrisy of Canada towards freedom of speech,” Jaiswal said, also enumerating the three points made by Jaishankar in his response to a question on India-Canada ties.
In Canberra, Jaishankar, in remarks on the Canadian allegations against India over the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, had reiterated that Canada made the allegations without providing specifics and that it was unacceptable for India that its diplomats were put under surveillance…….