"But for repressive regimes, academics seem to represent a particular threat, as free thinkers and free speakers.
Pakistan may have an ample supply of free thinkers, but free speakers have long been on the wane.
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She was taken along with her husband Wael Hamada and Sameera Khalil, the wife of Yassin Haj Saleh, a famed Syrian writer who left the country just two months ago as civil society activists and free speakers became targeted as much by extremist groups as the regime.
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In December, Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng called on his security forces to increase the battle against "hostile forces" (which translates to "free speakers" outside of Vietnam) using the net to "spread propaganda which threatens national security".
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"For over 20 minutes, the wife listened to their conversation, never letting on that the hands-free speaker was still in the active mode.
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"Knowing he needed to buy himself some more time as they drove off in his truck to the next bar, he proceeded to call his wife from the truck phone, using the hands-free speaker," Ms. Sutter writes.
