UN Human Rights Chief says, Trump's Constant Attacks on Media Outlets Could Endanger Journalists

The U.N. human rights chief denounced President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on major news organisations, saying "demonization" of the press can endanger journalists.

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein also made his first public comments decrying racist and anti-Semitic cries by far-right groups in Charlottesville violence, calling the events on its streets "an abomination" and "a nightmare."

He said he didn't initially respond because there was already a "cacophony of noise" in the United States. Zeid, who is a Jordanian prince, said Trump's constant complaints against media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN was "an incitement for others to attack journalists."

This comment, however, does not dispel the irony that press freedom in Jordon has gone through a sharp decline since the Arab Spring and there are regular incidents of abuse against journalists in the Arab nation.

"You don't have to stretch the imagination to see then what could happen to journalists," he said.

UCJ, UNILORIN.