Op-Ed Mar 18, 2021 The last blow to Hong Kong’s faltering democracy Two Fridays ago, the annual National People’s Congress convened in Beijing to rubber-stamp the Chinese Communist Party’s policies. Unfortunately for Hong Kong, restructuring the city’s electoral process topped the agenda.
Op-Ed Dec 20, 2022 HRF Op-Ed: The Plight of Political Dissident Jimmy Lai Hong Kong businessman and political dissident Jimmy Lai told me over dinner at his Taiwan home in 2019 that he knew speaking out for truth, justice and freedom in the region could come at great personal cost. He is now behind bars for this supposed crime, so I’m speaking out for him.
Op-Ed Oct 18, 2019 Why was a Nobel Prize awarded to a man who celebrated a war criminal? When the Nobel Committee asked the public on Twitter if they had read the works of the Austrian writer Peter Handke, one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature, a Bosnian man, Emir Suljagic, answered back: “No, we were busy looking for our families and friends buried in mass graves which he denied existed.”
Op-Ed Mar 15, 2019 Nicaragua Now. Ortega Still. That woman in the picture above is Edipcia Dubón. She is an interesting, brave, and touching person.
