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The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has called for the termination of Hill & Knowlton [10]'s contract defending the repressive government [11] of the Maldives. The MDP calculated that the PR firm has been paid $800,000 over almost three years. "According to World Bank figures, $800,000 is enough money to pay for the salaries of 290 Maldivian secondary school teachers for a whole year," acting MDP President Ibrahim Hussain Zaki stated in a media release. In response to recent media coverage of Hill & Knowlton's role in the Maldives, Tim Fallon [12] posted a note on his blog defending [13] his work as leading to "seismic" changes in the Islamic nation. Dozens of visitors to the blog aren't buying his story. "Why on earth would you help a brutal dictator who has murdered his own people? This shows what kind of a company Hill & Knowlton really is," wrote one.
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/7/bob-burton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/crisis-management
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/ethics
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/human-rights
[6] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/international
[7] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations
[8] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/social-justice
[9] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2006%2F10%2F5281%2Fpr-or-school-teachers-maldives-party-asks&linkname=PR%20or%20School%20Teachers%3F%20Maldives%20Party%20Asks
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hill_&_Knowlton
[11] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hill_&_Knowlton_goes_to_the_Maldives
[12] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Fallon
[13] http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/timfallon/archive/2006/10/06/4919.aspx
[14] http://www.minivannews.com/news/news.php?id=2504