06/12/2017
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"when you restrict people's right to criticize the government, it encourages corruption and it makes it more difficult to solve the problems that exist."
"When it gets to the point that international civil society groups... are forced to pull back their presence out of fear of oppression and incarceration, it should send a loud signal to the government ..."
"It is not really better to have a country that just thumbs their nose at anything in the West."
"We think it would be better for them and everybody if they would be... a little less thin-skinned about criticism."