Ambassador to France Jane Hartley represented the United States at the rally.
ANYTHING TO WHINE ABOUT OBAMA, BUT TORTURE WAS OK, INVADING IRAQ, IGNORING 9/11, KATRINA, THE MILLIONS MARCHING AGAINST IRAQ'S INVASION, DUBYA GOT A FREE PASS FOR 7+ YEARS FROM YOU KLOWNS, UNTIL THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS 'JOB CREATOR' POLICIES HAPPENED, THEN HE WAS A LIBERAL, LOL
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other
"predators of press freedom" who attended a march in Paris to commemorate the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
The Paris-based watchdog said it was "outraged by the presence of officials from countries that restrict freedom of information" among the million-strong crowd that marched Sunday in homage to the victims of last week's mass shooting at France's satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
"On what grounds are representatives of regimes that are predators of press freedom coming to Paris to pay tribute to Charlie Hebdo, a publication that has always defended the most radical concept of freedom of expression?" the statement said Sunday.
Russia, which sent Lavrov to the Sunday rally, ranked just 148th out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index last year, and at least 32 of the 56 journalists killed in Russia in connection with their work since 1992 were murdered, according to figures by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
NGO Criticizes Russian Presence at Charlie Hebdo March in Paris News The Moscow Times