On the night of January 29 this year, five peasants were delivered into Jinning detention centre, a dark little facility in the province of Yunnan in southwestern China. They were accused of illegal logging, a lucrative sideline for many farmers in this impoverished region. It was a routi...
In the first Intifada, Arabs began to target their Israeli co-workers. In the Second Intifada the violence escalated and eventually, when Israel dismantled all the settlements there in 2005, the Gazans voted for Hamas to rule them. Since then – as the radical Islamic terror group reneged on ...
Every so often the phrase ‘most powerful man in the world’ is bandied about, invariably referring to the American President. Such falsehoods typify the media’s appalling standards but then misleading the public is what it’s all about. The mere notion the President can do as he pleases ...
Thursday – News begins to circulate on Chinese social media that Li Wenliang has died of the Wuhan coronavirus. The rumors provoke a huge outpouring of grief and anger among Chinese netizens, many of whom already saw Li as a tragic figure after he contracted the virus he had tried to...
“Dr. Refaat’s voice is what keeps ringing in my head whenever I see my notes,” said Ismail. “He made us aware of the power of words and writing in delivering messages to the world, so we as Gazans will be heard.” Cycles of displacement ...
“I couldn’t count how many dead because I was running for my life.” Legend “They are shooting anything that moves outside…Stay safe through the night. And if I don’t make it through the night let it be known that I died fighting for our freedom, for what we believe in.” ...
Chinese officials have stressed the national security law is “tailor-made” for Hong Kong, and is different from the Chinese version enacted in the mainland. But in many ways, the legislation still bears a serious resemblance. And with the law now in force, the city – and its legal syste...
Had the plane flown on to Moscow, Navalny would almost certainly have died, according to experts in toxicology consulted by CNN. “The flight is about three hours, this is a long flight,” Kudryavtsev said. “If you don’t land the plane the effect would’ve been different and the res...