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Chinese students in Australia fear reprisals at home if they speak out, Human Rights Watch says Researchers found that some students still felt that they lived in a system similar to that under the Chinese Communist Party By Daniel Hurst / The Guardian Chinese students in Australia are afraid to speak out on politically sensitive issues because of potential repercussions for relatives back home, Human Rights Watch told an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Thursday last week. The group said that its ongoing research into academic freedom in Australia had found anxiety and loneliness among ...

A play about suicide that needs to be seen We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Harriet Cunningham Normal text size ★★★½ The lights go up on three characters on a dim stage, bare but for two rows of institutional chairs. One of the characters, a young man, paces up and down. The second, an older woman in tailored dress and heels, stands rigidly, jaw clenched, as the third, a muscular guy in plaid and tatts, manspreads across three chairs, jiggling his leg arhythmically. They’re obviously waiting, but what for? When the fourth charac...

Australian CGTN Journalist Charged With Leaking State Secrets Posted by John Chan | Feb 8, 2021 The Chinese government has formally arrested Cheng Lei, an Australian journalist who worked for state-broadcaster CGTN, alleging that she illegally shared state secrets. The news was announced by the Australian government on Monday, more than six months after Cheng was detained in August 2020. Since then, Cheng has been held in “residential surveillance at a designated location” (RSDL), a kind of detention that has been classified by U.N. human rights experts as a type of “enforced disappeara...

How Middle-Power Democracies Can Help Renovate Global Democracy Support Source: Getty Summary:  Middle-power democracies should not tread water while waiting for the United States to address its own democratic crisis. They must help revamp global democracy support using their comparative strengths. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary Democracy is on the defensive globally. Elected governments are struggling to stand up to emboldened authoritarian rivals. The coronavirus pandemic has increased democratic backsliding. Democracies are stru...

There will now be a big hole where he once stood." Those who knew Alex have given a glimpse into the "charming" person he was. Many of his friends told how he always had a cup of Yorkshire Tea in his hand and made "THE best panini". In an emotional letter to Alex, Georgia Hazell wrote: "Dear Alex, I wish you could see the impact your absence has had on everyone around you. I wish you were here to see all the kind things people have to say about you - how lovely you were, how much you made people laugh, how much you helped people. You were and are still so loved in this world. You ...