China sentenced an activist known by the online pseudonym “Super Vulgar Butcher” to eight years in prison
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‘Fake News’ Label Now Widely Used by Global Dictatorships
Some of the world’s worst violators of media freedom are using Trump’s “fake news” refrain to justify press restrictions
Has China Cut Off All North Korean Oil And Fuel Products?
The block appeared to be even harsher than sanctions placed on the North by the United Nations this year
Former South Korean President refuses questioning in prison
Former President Park Geun-hye refused to be questioned in prison by prosecutors, Tuesday, over allegations she received bribes from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) while in office. Senior prosecutor Yang Suk-jo and three other investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office visited Seoul Detention Center at 8:30 a.m. to question Park, who allegedly received […]
Three weeks later and Nepal still waits for a new government
Three weeks after the second phase of Nepal’s parliamentary & provincial elections, the country still doesn’t have a government. The Left Alliance between the Maoist Centre and the Unified Maoist-Leninists appears to have won, over the Nepali Congress party, which has been mainly in power since 1991. But the Election Commission has yet to publish […]
Artist ‘released’ in China after Liu Xiaobo tribute
An artist that could not be reached for more than a week after he painted a politically charged mural in southern China wrote on Twitter Monday that he has been “released”. “I was released a few days ago and we are in my hometown now,” the Twitter account of painter Hu Jiamin read days after […]
Navalny Calls for Russia Election Boycott After Being Barred
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is calling for a boycott of the country’s next presidential ballot after election officials barred him from running. Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) voted Monday to bar Navalny from running in the March 2018 presidential election because of his conviction on criminal charges that the anti-corruption blogger and his followers […]
On Alberto Fujimori: Peru’s pardoned ex-dictator
Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and rights abuses, has been pardoned
Candidates prepare to challenge Vladimir Putin for President
President Vladimir Putin plays a game of Night Hockey in Moscow’s Red Square; a way of letting off some steam perhaps, before being formally backed by Russia’s ruling party for next years presidential election . Putin is running as an independent candidate, keeping a distance from the top Kremlin party, United Russia, which consists mostly […]
Liberia to vote in delayed run-off for new president
Liberians choose a new leader Tuesday in a run-off between Vice President Joseph Boakai and footballing icon George Weah, a vote that will mark the country’s first democratic transition since 1944. After seven weeks of delays caused by legal complaints lodged by Boakai’s ruling Unity Party against the country’s electoral commission, polling stations are due […]