US lawmakers and human rights groups on Thursday urged authoritarian governments to abandon their intolerance for dissent, and cease their crackdown on civil society and press. "No country can achieve lasting stability with policies that violate the right to freedom of expression," said Congressman Jim McGovern,(D-MA), a senior House Democrat, Co-Chair of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, in his opening statement during a...

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