SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: an American citizen has been placed on a terrorism watchlist with no due process and no explanation.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2065073746403373552

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!!! 

Yesterday, our colleague and DD Geopolitics correspondent Chris was told that the US government has placed him on the FBI's no-fly list while trying to board a flight in Beijing.

He is an American citizen. He received no warning, no charge, and no reason. He found out only when the airline refused to issue his boarding pass after eight hours of waiting, stranding him abroad. As an American, he is now barred from flying to, from, or even over his own country.

His "offense" is journalism.

Chris was traveling to cover Iran's national team at the World Cup. In recent months he reported on the ground from Minab in southern Iran  and from the site of the Starobelsk strike in the Donbass, where a dormitory full of teenagers was killed. His work documents the human cost of the wars Washington funds and fights: the children who never make the press releases.

For that, an American citizen has been placed on a terrorism watchlist with no due process and no explanation.

This is not a small thing. The no-fly list operates with almost no transparency, Americans are routinely listed without ever being told why, and the redress process is a black box that a federal court has already found violates constitutional due process. It is one of the most powerful quiet censorship tools the government holds, and it is now pointed at a journalist for reporting things they would rather no one see.

DD Geopolitics will not be silenced. We are pursuing every legal avenue available to Chris, and we will not let this be buried.

If they can do this to him with no warrant, no charge, and not one word of explanation, they can do it to any American who shows the world something it isn't supposed to see.