Guinea to put 60 people on trial for unrest
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May 9, 2021
CONAKRY: Some 60 people, including opposition figures detained for months, will stand trial in Guinea over deadly protests surrounding last year’s presidential election, according to the government.
Alpha Conde’s bid for a third term in office was met with months of demonstrations by political opposition and civil society groups, which security forces countered with sometimes brutal force, and dozens of people died after the protests began in October 2019.
In March 2020, at the same time as legislative elections, Guinea held a referendum to change the constitution and allow the president to serve more than two terms.
Initiative to share books on CPC kicks off in Shanghai By ZHOU WENTING in Shanghai | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-05-08 11:30 Share CLOSE Zhang Wenhong, left, is the book club chair for the first day. [Photo by Zhou Wenting/chinadaily.com.cn]
An initiative to share books about the history and the present of the Communist Party of China began its Shanghai tour at the city s Fudan University on Friday and will last through the end of May.
Thousands of books on Party history and development were brought to a reading club on the school campus to celebrate the upcoming centenary of the founding of the CPC in July under the initiative held by the Shanghai Century Publishing (Group) Co Ltd and Yongye Group among others.
Corona claims 129 more lives, infects 4,109 people
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 120 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 854,240.
The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 18,797 on Saturday. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) 4,109 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, reported private news channel. Meanwhile, Pakistan
on Saturday began a nine-day shutdown affecting travel and tourist hotspots in a bid to prevent a surge in COVID-19 cases during the Muslim holiday of Eidul Fitr.
the fact that after all the violence it unleashed recently on streets across the country, a religio-political party was banned with a show of bravado but then this weak and frightened government.