Publication Mar 26, 2018 Egypt election begins with President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi certain win (USA Today)– Polls opened on Monday in Egypt’s presidential election with the outcome — a second term for President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi — a foregone conclusion. A general-turned-president, el-Sissi is challenged…
Publication Mar 26, 2018 Sierra Leone Runoff Vote to Proceed Tuesday, Court Rules (Bloomberg Politics)–A Sierra Leone court ruled that a presidential runoff set for Tuesday must proceed even as a hearing into alleged fraud during the vote’s first round earlier this month…
Publication Mar 26, 2018 Militants Linked to Al Qaeda Unleash Deadly Car Bombings in Somalia (The New York Times) – The explosions occurred days after a bomb went off outside the Weheliye Hotel in the city, killing at least 14 people, mostly young entrepreneurs, and…
Publication Mar 26, 2018 Malaysia Proposes Law to Fight ‘Fake News’ Ahead of Election (The Wall Street Journal) – Malaysia’s government proposed a new law on Monday that would make spreading fake news a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, a…
Publication Mar 26, 2018 Protesters arrested in Belarus during opposition rally Scores of people have been arrested in the Belarus capital, Minsk, as supporters of the country’s repressed opposition tried to hold a protest march. The attempted demonstration was to mark…
Publication Mar 23, 2018 Zambian Opposition Files Motion to Impeach President Lungu (Bloomberg Politics)–Zambia’s main opposition party filed a motion in parliament to impeach President Edgar Lungu, saying he violated the constitution. His spokesman called the motion “defective” and said it will…
Publication Mar 23, 2018 Venezuela’s Maduro Uses Hunger as an Election Weapon (The Wall Street Journal) – Food is an enormously powerful weapon in a country where babies die of malnutrition, store shelves are often bare and three-quarters of the population
Publication Mar 23, 2018 U.N. rights experts urge China to provide care for rights lawyer (Reuters) – United Nations experts called on China on Friday to provide medical care to Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed for inciting “subversion”, amid reports of his…
Publication Mar 22, 2018 China Sets up State Monitoring Agency With Sweeping Powers to Detain (RFA) – The law passed by the National People’s Congress (NPC) will set up nationwide supervisory commissions to monitor the conduct of staff in the ruling Chinese Communist Party, People’s…
Publication Mar 21, 2018 Chinese Dissident, Official Trade Barbs at UN Rights Body GENEVA — A Chinese diplomat repeatedly interrupted a speech by a prominent Chinese dissident to block him from addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council, a failed attempt that bared China’s…
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Publication Mar 20, 2018 U.N. calls for Turkey to end state of emergency, halt violations (Reuters)–The United Nations called on Turkey on Tuesday to end its 20-month-old state of emergency and accused Ankara of mass arrests, arbitrary sackings and other abuses that in some cases…
Publication Mar 20, 2018 European Rights Court condemns Turkey over journalist jailings (Deutsche Welle) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Turkey had acted illegally in detaining two journalists despite the Supreme Court issuing an order for…
Publication Mar 20, 2018 Telegram Loses Bid to Stop Russia From Getting Encryption Keys (Bloomberg) – Telegram, the encrypted messaging app that’s prized by those seeking privacy, lost a bid before Russia’s Supreme Court to block security services from getting access to users’ data,…
Publication Mar 20, 2018 Putin Rigs Another Presidential Election NEW YORK (March 19, 2018) — On Sunday, March 18, Russian president Vladimir Putin secured a fourth presidential term in a rigged election that was neither free nor fair. The…
Publication Mar 19, 2018 Sisi’s only challenger lays low ahead of Egyptian election (Reuters) – Days ahead of Egypt’s presidential election, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the only candidate standing against incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is avoiding the limelight. Moussa’s presidential bid seemed to come…
Publication Mar 13, 2018 ‘Freedom!’: the movement that brought Ethiopia to a standstill (The Guardian) – Today, Desalegn is a banker. But once he was a Qeerroo: a young, energetic and unmarried man from Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, bound by what…
Publication Mar 12, 2018 Russia tries to entice voters to polls to prop up Putin’s legitimacy In the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, political activists are raffling a car, while in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, the prize is an iPhone X. In Berdsk, the best…
Media Mar 12, 2018 ‘Unsafe even to bury the dead’ in besieged Syrian enclave (Reuters) – Thousands of families are sleeping in the open in the streets of the biggest town of Syria’s rebel-held eastern Ghouta enclave, where there is no longer any room…
Publication Mar 12, 2018 In Egypt, a strongman’s only challenger is barely campaigning (The Washington Post) –The election billboards of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi are everywhere in this bustling capital. They read: “Yalla Sissi” — “Go Sissi” in Arabic — urging him on…
