EU demands release of whistleblower of Wuhan virus ANI | Updated: Dec 29, 2020 23:02 IST
Brussels [Belgium], December 29 (ANI): The European Union External Action Service (EEAS) on Tuesday demanded that Beijing free citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who was detained in May for her live stream reporting from Wuhan over Covid-19 and sentenced to four years of imprisonment.
In a statement by the spokesperson of the EEAS, it said that the restrictions on freedom of expression, on access to information, and intimidation and surveillance of journalists, as well as detentions, trials and sentencing of human rights defenders, lawyers, and intellectuals in China, are growing and continue to be a source of great concern.
US calls for release of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan ANI | Updated: Dec 30, 2020 00:28 IST
Washington DC [US], December 30 (ANI): Condemning China for sham prosecution and conviction , US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday called for the release of citizen journalistZhang Zhan who was detained in May for her live stream reporting from Wuhan over Covid-19 and later sentenced to four years of imprisonment. The United States strongly condemns the People s Republic of China s (PRC) sham prosecution and conviction of citizen journalistZhang Zhan on December 28. We call on the PRC government to release her immediately and unconditionally, Pompeo said in a statement.
Pakistan using European Members of Parliament against India
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15th December, 2020 10:28:53
Pakistan has consistently attempted to manipulate European parliamentarians to issue resolutions against India, disrupt global democracy, and silence any criticism of Pakistan itself. Two prominent personalities have been at the job on Pakistan’s behalf. Now-disgraced UK Lord Nazir Ahmed used his influence to allow Pakistani secret services to infiltrate the corridors of Whitehall, and the UK government a task that is now likely to have been given to Chaudhary Perveiz Iqbal Losar, chairman of the EU-Pak Friendship Federation Europe.
When you read the reports of the European Union’s External Action Service (EEAS) and those of the European Commission, especially the Trade Commission, you cannot help but question the intimacy between the European Union and Pakistani nationals in the United Kingdom, including the now disgraced Nazir Ahmed, who has resigned from the UK’s Hous
Egypt’s Crackdown on EIPR: Instrumentalizing Counterterrorism to Silence Dissent
Egyptian Central Security Forces in Cairo, 2012. (Jonathan Rashad, https://flic.kr/p/bGdYSH; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
On Nov. 3, a group of foreign ambassadors and diplomats representing 12 countries and the European Commission gathered at the offices of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The group was present to discuss the state of human rights and civil society in Egypt following a request made by one of the countries. As a preeminent independent civil society organization that has been legally operating in the country since 2002, EIPR is widely respected and sought after for its knowledge production, advocacy and litigation on key issues from health to the economy to criminal justice. The meeting which took place within the mandate of the foreign diplomatic corps’ engagement with Egyptian stakeholders was not the first of its type and
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