“Today’s actions represent the first step on delivering on the president’s vision of a new relationship between Syria and the United States,” Rubio said on Friday.
The government also claimed that some groups on Telegram also used the app to sell users’ data, and were involved in drug trafficking or had “terrorist” links.Vietnam’s hardline administration
generally moves swiftly to stamp out dissent and arrest critics, especially those who find an audience on social media.New rules came into force in Vietnam last year that required platforms such as Facebook andto verify user identities and hand over data to authorities, in what critics described as the latest attack on freedom of expression in the communist-ruled country.
In a statement to the Reuters news agency, a representative of Telegram said the company was “surprised” by the Vietnamese government’s move.“We have responded to legal requests from Vietnam on time. The deadline for the response is May 27, and we are processing the request,” the Telegram representative said.
An official at Vietnam’s Science and Technology Ministry told the Reuters news agency that the decision followed Telegram’s failure to share user data with the government as part of criminal investigations.
Telegram was still available in Vietnam as of Friday.But Salgado pushed back on that assessment in a 2024 interview with The Guardian. “Why should the poor world be uglier than the rich world? The light here is the same as there. The dignity here is the same as there.”
In 2014, one of his sons, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, partnered with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders to film a documentary about Salgado’s life, called The Salt of the Earth.One of his last major photography collections was Amazonia, which captured the Amazon rainforest and its people. While some viewers criticised his depiction of Indigenous peoples in the series, Salgado defended his work as a vision of the region’s vitality.
“To show this pristine place, I photograph Amazonia alive, not the dead Amazonia,” he told The Guardian in 2021, after the collection’s release.As news of Salgado’s death spread on Friday, artists and public figures offered their remembrances of the photographer and his work. Among the mourners was Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, who offered a