I don't know how a judge can feel good after sentencing a 77 year old theoretical physicist to the penal colony. Especially, if what apparently counts as treason is the vetted(!) publication of research papers.
(He is the second in a series of four similar cases; where the first one "testified" to shorten his own sentence.)
It looks like #Academia should be intimidated, to silence the remaining critical voices. #HumanRights#Russia#Treason https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-hypersonics-expert-jailed-14-years-treason-2024-05-21/
#FrontLineDefenders condemns targetting of members of #Nozhin assn & sentencing of #HumanRights defenders Soma Pourmohammadi, Serveh Pourmohammadi, Seivan Ebrahimi & Edris Menbari, as it believes it is in #retaliation of their peaceful & legitimate human rights work in #Iran.
On 13 May 2024, Soma Pourmohammadi appealed a 10 yr prison sentence issued by Branch 1 of #SanandajRevolutionaryCourt on 16 April & announced to the defender on 21 April 2024.
The Chinese government is using extreme forms of pressure to coerce Tibetans to relocate their long-established villages, according to a report by Human Rights Watch
A #Chinese woman who served 4 years in #prison over her video reports from #Wuhan during the early days of the #pandemic has been released from a #Shanghai prison facility, following more than a week of online speculation about her whereabouts.
Zhang Zhan, 40 years old, was detained & sentenced by a Chinese court in 2020 after #documenting in more than 120 vids how #Covid19 ravaged the city where the #coronavirus was first detected.
#China's internet #censors have deleted a video in which #children at a private #PerformingArts school in the southwestern province of #Sichuan dance to British rock band #PinkFloyd's 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" which featured a choir of #schoolchildren protesting overbearing authority & "thought control" in #education.
The series provides an #InDepthAnalysis of the idea that human rights violations, armed conflict & #war cause #psychological & #psychiatric outcomes, using the Kingdom’s tragic past to explore themes.
Small island states hail ocean court victory on greenhouse gases
"Ruling says countries' targets for cutting greenhouse emissions must be set based on best available science"
"Small island nations with scant economic power but vulnerable to climate change have long felt neglected by successive global summits where pledges to cut carbon emissions have fallen far short of the minimum for limiting the worst effects of global warming." #News ClimateCrisis #HumanRights https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/maritime-court-climate-change-1.7210270
Des dizaines de milliers de personnes dont des enfants—jugées sur leur seule couleur de peau comme pouvant être des migrants—sont arbitrairement enlevées et abandonnées dans le désert chaque année.
For Dutch speakers, I highly recommend this article.
It's very detailed.
They also give the example of Timothy Hucks, an #American guy from New York whose crime is to be black. Timothy simply left his flat in Morocco to buy some booze. He got abducted by Moroccan security forces, who decided that, no, he is not American, and dumped him far in the desert with others—all black people.
Here, the @EUCommission resembles the worst multinational corporations — trying to evade its responsibilities by simply subcontracting its human right violations.
Several hundreds of MILLIONS € are being spent on this.
An International Court of Justice ought to look into this.
As the Dutch newspaper Trouw wrote this morning, this is only the first article on this topic.
More will come.
ICC is seeking an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and the defence minister of Israel. Finally, someone is taking a stand for Palestine and stopping the war!
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said May 20 he is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.
Israeli government is now curtailing the right to freedom of speech in the country to prevent the broadcasting of the reality of genocide. Not surprised now!
Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on May 21, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera.
Even the eagles have changed their route to avoid the Ukraine war, when will people realize the futility of war and put an end to it?
Eagles changed their migration routes across Ukraine to avoid fighting and because their habitats were likely damaged or destroyed by war, say scientists.
At the recent @w3c member meeting in Hiroshima 🇯🇵, @simone - new W3C Security Lead - outlined a three-pillar approach to security: developing security standards, verifying those standards, and guiding #developers to create a secure web.
The world is now seeing how we are manipulated to see what they want us to see. Who THEY decide are the “enemy” and who isn’t. When most of the world is watching, and not agreeing, they highlight themselves. #hypocrisy#warcrimes#humanrights