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15 February 2021 Felix Corley, Forum 18 A court in Lebap Region jailed 20-year-old Jehovahs Witness conscientious objector Nazar Alliyev for one year for refusing compulsory military service. He is the seventh to be jailed in 2021 so far and joins 14 other jailed conscientious objectors (9 of them serving second sentences). "We deeply regret the criminalization of conscientious objection," four UN human rights Special Procedures wrote to the Turkmen government in December 2020, adding that Turk...

FDA/Cuba Discuss Production Of COVID-19 Vaccine

Belarus five-year plan: Inflation under 5%, focus on socially important goods Andrei Kartun MINSK, 12 February (BelTA) - Inflation within the next five years should not exceed 5%, while the major focus will be on socially important goods, Deputy Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Andrei Kartun told the media on the sidelines of the 6th Belarusian Peoples Congress, BelTA has learned. “The president outlined in his report that price control is a priority. Particular emphasis should b...

Leaders of Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Börsenverein, supported by the International Publishers Association, condemn the killing of Lokman Slim on February 4 in the village of Addoussieh. In Beirut’s downtown Nijmeh Square. Image – Marco Ramerini ‘A Fearless, Outspoken, and Committed Fighter’ In a report from Reuters Beirut, we learned of a protest on Saturday (February 6), demanding an investigation into the killing of anti-Hezbollah activist Lokman Slim, a publisher, critic, and doc...

5 February, 2021 On January 21, the Department of Financial Investigations at the Committee of State Control in Belarus started an investigation of the educational human rights defence institution “Office for the Rights of People with Disabilities.” The director, Sergey Drozdovskiy, and lawyer Oleg Grablevsky were brought to the Committee, the accountant Tatiana Krishtal had her phone and computer confiscated. Unidentified people tried to enter the flat of the former deputy director M...

The journalists have been looking for the former Prime Minister of Belarus Siarhei Rumas for three days already. Whether the security forces are looking for him is another question to which no one has an answer yet. The ex-prime minister last appeared in messengers at five in the morning on February 3. In the afternoon of the same day, it became known that several top managers of Belagroprombank, which Siarhei Rumas headed from 2005 to 2010, were summoned for interrogations to the Financial In...

MK Ruth Wasserman Lande, Israel’s Force for Economic Equality Felice Friedson 02/04/2021 Ruth Wasserman Lande was born in Israel and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. She joined Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, on Jan. 8, 2021, and was forced out four days later when a government minister from her Blue and White party resigned and returned to the Knesset under the Norwegian law. Three weeks later she returned to Knesset when a party lawmaker left to join another party. She currently se...

0"> The original Treaty of Tartu briefly on public display at the National Archives of Estonia. February 2, 2017. Source: Aili Vahtla/ERR The Tartu Peace Treaty was the birth certificate of the Republic of Estonia, and laid the foundation for the sovereignty of Estonia, Riigikogu speaker Henn Põlluaas (EKRE) said Tuesday, on the 101st anniversary of the signing of a treaty between the new republic and the fledgling Soviet Russian state. Põlluaas said that the treaty was: ...

New Belarus State Control Committee chairman appointed MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) – Vasily Gerasimov has been appointed Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus. The corresponding personnel decision was made by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 26 January, BelTA has learned. Since September 2020 Vasily Gerasimov has been acting chairman of the committee. Before that he was First Deputy Chairman of the State Control Committee. Vasily Gerasimov was born in 1975 in Minsk. He gra...

Cuban Ambassador expresses gratitude for Greeks that helped with Nobel Peace Prize nomination Search for: Cuban ambassador to Greece, Zelmys María Domínguez Cortina, spoke to Sputnik Hellas about Cuban vaccines for COVID-19, tensions between Cuba and the U.S., and the mud thrown against the Cuban medical brigade, which is a candidate for Nobel Peace Prize. One of the flagships of the Cuban revolution, despite the relentless campaign of boycotts and sabotage by the US government, is the healt...