March 7th 2:22PM by
Matt Tobey
Wah Wah Wee Wah: US Declares Borat Human Rights Victim
In
a bizarre turn of events, a new report from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lists Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat as a victim of human rights violations by the nation of Kazakhstan:
The report cited Borat's loss of his Kazakh webpage www.borat.kz in late 2005 alongside court cases and limits on free speech faced by the few domestic media critical of Kazakhstan's long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
"The government deemed as offensive the content of a satirical site controlled by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and revoked the .kz domain," the report said.
In a related story, Rice's office is pressuring the Russian government to come clean about abuses against cartoon moose and squirrels.
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