Military police beats up 8 journalists covering Bobi Wine at UN offices
February 17, 2021 One of the injured journalists
At least eight journalists from six media houses are nursing injuries after military police mercilessly pounced on them and beat them with batons near the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights offices in Kololo today.
The journalists were covering National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi, who had gone to deliver a petition to the UN over continued human rights violations in the country which include arbitrary arrests, murders, kidnaps among others
Among those most injured were NTV journalist, John Cliff Wamala who was hit on the head causing a deep cut. Others include; Timothy Mulungi and Henry Sekanjako of
Tue, 26 January 2021
Tensions that could sour relations between Russia and the West, pre-eminently Europe and the US, have intensified ever since opposition figure Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow after his discharge from a hospital in Germany.
There is an element of bitter irony that clouds his return following treatment for nerve agent poisoning – allegedly at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin has claimed that Navalny’s return and the resultant tension with the Western powers represent “an absolutely internal matter”.
Perhaps on the face of it, it is. But it shall not be easy for the US and Europe, across the Atlantic to accept the global condemnation of his arrest at the Moscow airport and spirited calls for his early release.
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Pro-democracy protesters give the three-finger salute as they take part in an anti-government rally at Lat Phrao intersection in Bangkok on December 2. AFP
2020: the year youth rose up in Thailand
Thu, 31 December 2020
Thailand witnessed its first youth-led uprising against establishment elites for more than a generation last year.
It began when the Constitutional Court handed down a controversial ruling to disband the Future Forward Party in February.
The political situation had been relatively calm since the military coup in 2014. But early last year, the tide turned against the military-backed government and key institutions that were deemed to be siding with dictatorship.
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HE BALDING figure looks frail and harmless, sitting in the dock behind a Perspex screen in the German town of Koblenz, where the rivers Rhine and Moselle unite. But appearances can deceive. Anwar Raslan, 57, once a Syrian policeman, has been charged with torturing more than 4,000 people and murdering at least 58 between 2011 and 2012, when Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, set about crushing the initially peaceful demonstrations that shook his regime as the Arab spring took off.
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Mr Raslan is on trial because, by his own lights, he made a mistake. Having fallen out with the regime, in 2012 he joined the exodus of Syrians who ended up in Germany, where he seemed to be settling down nicely with his family in a Berlin suburb, until one of his alleged victims, by a fluke, spotted his presence and told a human-rights group. With the encouragement of
I was in New York a few years ago. It was on the cusp of autumn; the air was crisp and the trees flecked with gold. I took a walk down Fifth Avenue to people-watch the wealthy as they stepped out from under black-arched doorways and wafted into to gleaming, black cars. But it wasn’t the rich who caught my eye: rather, it was a young nanny; a woman I assumed was her friend; and a little pigtailed girl dressed in an enormous, checked school uniform.
“Are you headed home?” the friend asked the nanny.
“No,” the nanny answered. “Jessica has Chinese, ballet and math class this afternoon.”