At its first meeting of 2015, the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) issued a statement of solidarity with the people of France in reaction to the recent terrorist attack in Paris.
“At a moment of great shock and sorrow following the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, at which cartoonists, journalists and police officers were murdered, the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy stands in solidarity with the people of France. This deadly attack on one media outlet is an attack on freedom of expression everywhere. Intolerance and violence must not be allowed to silence free speech and thus do violence to democracy itself.”
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