8 years of fear of one jokester?
China has sentenced prominent rights activist Wu Gan to eight years for subversion after online criticism of Beijing’s leaders. His jailing is the harshest punishment in a two-year crackdown on dissent.
8 years of fear of one jokester?
China has sentenced prominent rights activist Wu Gan to eight years for subversion after online criticism of Beijing’s leaders. His jailing is the harshest punishment in a two-year crackdown on dissent.
With its new Silk Road mega-project, China is building on old traditions. But it’s hard-core geostrategic interests and not nostalgia which is guiding Beijing. Miodrag Soric reports from Tbilisi, Georgia.
On December 10, 1966, the Jewish-German poet Nelly Sachs received the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, an award she shared with the novelist Shmuel Agnón. In her acceptance speech, she paid tribute to another Nobel laureate for saving her life. “In the summer of 1939, a German friend came to Sweden to visit Selma Lagerlöf and asked if she could find somewhere for my mother and I to take refuge,” she said. “In the spring of 1940, after several tortuous months, we reached Stockholm. Denmark and Norway were already occupied. The great novelist was no longer here.”
Brexit negotiators should take note: Brussels has acted to put European law first
It’s been fascinating to look at some of the reactions, in Europe and beyond, after the European commission last week took the unprecedented step of triggering a mechanism against Poland, for the first time potentially threatening to strip a member state of its voting rights in the club.
Brussels decided to move against Poland’s democratic backsliding, namely the crushing of its independent judiciary – a process that had recently been accelerated by its populist government, elected in 2015. On social media, the far right raged. Here was the European behemoth lashing out at a country whose sovereign choices were being trampled on, its image unfairly tarnished. Sound familiar?
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The US government has announced significant cuts in its United Nations budget obligations for 2018-19 in what will be interpreted as a further ratcheting up of pressure from the Trump administration looking to bend decision-making at the international body to its will.
Related: UN votes resoundingly to reject Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as capital
Rebels refuse to head to Sochi conference, claiming that Moscow has not contributed ‘one step’ to ease the suffering of Syrian civilians
Syrian rebel groups on Monday rejected Russia’s planned Sochi conference on Syria, saying Moscow was seeking to bypass a United Nations-based Geneva peace process and blaming Russia for committing war crimes in the country.
In a statement by around 40 rebel groups who include some of the military factions who participated in earlier rounds of Geneva peace talks, they said Moscow had not put pressure on the Syrian government to reach a political settlement.
A film about an abduction case was banned by Pakistan’s censors, but a public outcry, fueled by a social media campaign, helped overturn the ruling.
Alexei Navalny calls for boycott of next year’s vote after election commission’s decision
Russian election officials on Monday formally barred Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president, prompting calls from him for a boycott of next year’s vote.
The central election commission decided unanimously that the anti-corruption crusader is not eligible to run.
Palestinian protesters, some festively dressed as Santa Claus, clash with Israeli security forces in Bethlehem, a day before the beginning of Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city revered as the birthplace of Jesus.
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