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After similar attacks on exiled dissidents, a well-known Chechen blogger has survived an apparent assassination attempt in Poland. Tumso Abdurakhmanov is one of the most prominent and outspoken critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s …
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued their annual report saying that at least 250 journalists were imprisoned worldwide this year. China imprisoned at least 48 journalists in 2019, more than Turkey (47, down from 68 last year), Saudi …
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Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): a milestone document proclaiming the inalienable rights which everyone is …
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YouTube announced that it would remove material glorifying the Nazis from its platform in an attempt to stop people being radicalised. In the process however, it also deleted videos uploaded to help educate future generations about the risks of …
The two journalists, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were arrested in 2017 as they investigated the Myanmar military’s violent crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, and sentenced to seven years in prison. In April, Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, and their …
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of offending religious sentiment, after posters bearing an image of the Virgin Mary with her halo painted in the colours of the rainbow flag appeared in the city of Płock in central Poland. Offending …
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