Greece Stuck at Bottom of EU on Press Freedom For the second year in a row, Greece came last among European Union countries in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2023 World Press Freedom Index.
Human Rights Press Awards Announce 2023 Winners (Bangkok) – Reporting on the fifth wave of Covid that engulfed Hong Kong, the Myanmar military’s abuses against the Rohingya, and human trafficking of African students by Taiwanese universities are among the winners of the 2023 Human Rights Press Awards, Human Rights Watch said today. The awards are administered by
Joint Statement: UAE Human Rights Record Ahead of COP28 Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue their sustained assault on human rights and freedoms, including targeting human rights activists, enacting repressive laws, and using the criminal justice system as a tool to eliminate the human rights movement. These policies have led to the closure of civic space, severe
This Week in the New Normal #62 Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Ireland’s attack on Free speech Last November the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences)
Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry. What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful
Tech Giant Oracle Cuts Ties with Foreign Disinformation 'Experts' GDI Oracle, an international technology giant known for its cloud and enterprise products, has cut ties with the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), the UK-based, State Department-funded group that advised advertisers to blacklist conservative media. In a statement to the Washington Examiner, which released GDI’s blacklist earlier this year, Oracle corporate
Australia: Press Vietnam on Poor Rights Record (Sydney) – The Australian government should press Vietnam’s leadership to end its systemic human rights violations at the upcoming dialogue between the two countries, Human Rights Watch said today.
UN: More Groups Address ‘Antisemitism’ Issue (New York) – More than 100 human rights and civil rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, are urging the United Nations to respect human rights in its efforts to combat antisemitism, Human Rights Watch said today. Over 40 additional organizations added their names to an update of an
Disaster Troll Propaganda So-called conspiracy theories abound, especially among those who attack others by calling them conspiracy theorists.
A Twitter Files Requiem And so the “Twitter Files” Limited Hangout has come to its inevitable, ignominious end.
Indonesia: Activists on Trial for Criminal Defamation (Jakarta) – Indonesian authorities should drop the criminal defamation charges against two prominent human rights defenders in Jakarta, Human Rights Watch said today.
Russia: Sentencing for Prominent Kremlin Critic (Berlin, April 14, 2023) – Moscow City Court is scheduled to deliver a verdict on April 17, 2023 in the criminal trial against the prominent Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, Human Rights Watch said today. Russian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Kara-Murza, who has been arbitrarily detained for the past
Steve Kirsch Bans Proton Magic for Posting the Katie Sugak Irrefutable Proof of Virology Video & admits there is no paper proving Sars-Cov-2 Kirsch banned Proton Magic for posting a science video by Katie Sugak on why virologists never find viruses.
Russia’s Security Service Arrests American Reporter Russia’s Federal Security Service has arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on “suspicion of espionage in the interests of the American government,” and a court has ordered him to pretrial custody until May 29. Gershkovich, 31, has been living in and reporting on Russia since at least 2017,