{"id":21335,"date":"2025-12-24T16:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/undermines-free-speech-labour-mp-hits-back-at-us-government-over-visa-ban-on-uk-campaigners\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:37:41","slug":"undermines-free-speech-labour-mp-hits-back-at-us-government-over-visa-ban-on-uk-campaigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/undermines-free-speech-labour-mp-hits-back-at-us-government-over-visa-ban-on-uk-campaigners\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Undermines free speech\u2019: Labour MP hits back at US government over visa ban on UK campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chi Onwurah speaks out after Marco Rubio accused five Europeans, including two Britons, of \u2018seeking to suppress American viewpoints they oppose\u2019 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A senior Labour MP has accused the Trump administration of undermining free speech after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, announced sanctions against two British anti-disinformation campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>Chi Onwurah, the chair of parliament\u2019s technology select committee, criticised the US government hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/24\/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe\">it announced<\/a> \u201cvisa-related\u201d sanctions against five Europeans, including Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/24\/undermines-free-speech-labour-mp-hits-back-at-us-government-over-visa-related-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/386f5e506aac617409a736ec981bef4308ee57f8\/0_0_5906_4724\/master\/5906.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cd701f13c7b3904c5c325148af42adad\" title=\"\u2018Undermines free speech\u2019: Labour MP hits back at US government over visa ban on UK campaigners\" \/>Chi Onwurah speaks out after Marco Rubio accused five Europeans, including two Britons, of \u2018seeking to suppress American viewpoints they oppose\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>A senior Labour MP has accused the Trump administration of undermining free speech after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, announced sanctions against two British anti-disinformation campaigners.<br \/>\nChi Onwurah, the chair of parliament\u2019s technology select committee, criticised the US government hours after it announced \u201cvisa-related\u201d sanctions against five Europeans, including Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chi Onwurah speaks out after Marco Rubio accused five Europeans, including two Britons, of \u2018seeking to suppress American viewpoints they oppose\u2019 A senior Labour MP has accused the Trump administration of undermining free speech after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, announced sanctions against two British anti-disinformation campaigners. Chi Onwurah, the chair of parliament\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/undermines-free-speech-labour-mp-hits-back-at-us-government-over-visa-ban-on-uk-campaigners\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Undermines free speech\u2019: Labour MP hits back at US government over visa ban on UK campaigners<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}