Day: January 18, 2021

China Jails Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Fleeing To Taiwan

A group of Hong Kongers who were arrested at sea by Chinese authorities while attempting to seek refuge in Taiwan were sentenced on 23 December 2020 by a mainland court for up to three years in prison. The sentencing is only the latest offensive in the Chinese Communist Party’s actions

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At Least 22 Civilians Killed In DRC Village Attack

At least 22 civilians were killed during a raid on the Mwenda village of the Beni territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, January 4th. According to local officials and UN peacekeepers, the attack was perpetrated by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group that

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Refugees and Migrants’ Journey Across The Mediterranean Sea

A migrant boat travelling from Sub- Sahara Africa to Italy has left 20 dead and 20 missing after the boat sank near Tunisia. According to the BBC news, Tunisian coast guards were able to retrieve bodies off Sfax’s coastal city in central Tunisia on Thursday, with five survivors rescued. It

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China Jails Citizen Journalist For Coronavirus Reporting In Wuhan

On October 28th, news broke out that Chinese authorities had sentenced citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan to four years in prison. Zhang’s “crime”? Her documentation of Wuhan residents’ desperation at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. This documentation contradicted state media depictions of how the government was handling the pandemic

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Commutation Of Sentence For Heroic Saudi Women’s Rights Activist

Loujain Al-Hathloul is a women’s rights activist, political prisoner and social media figure born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia who was repeatedly arrested for defying gender inequalities in Saudi Arabia. In 2018, she was once again arrested along with a group of men and women involved in campaigning for women’s rights

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