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The former whistleblower of the Pentagon Papers announced he has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer, giving him an estimated three to six months to live. Ellsberg, an economist, is widely considered as a role model for human rights activists and investigative journalists.
More than 18,500 Russian migrants have entered Argentina since the war on Ukraine started a year ago. A significant proportion of them are pregnant women looking to deliver their babies in Argentina and to gain access to a non-Russian passport for their kids.
A report from two cities in Lithuania and Georgia that are now home to sizable Belarusian tech communities. Their members have to navigate living abroad while not antagonizing the Lukashenko regime, which they fear might cause trouble for friends and family or threaten their own ability to visit home.
The death sentence against Iranian-born German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd aims at silencing criticism of its repressive policies among the diaspora and the broader international community, the Center for Human Rights in Iran says. There are also concerns that the 67-year old Sharmahd, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and other severe illnesses, is not receiving proper medical care.
"Putin and his crew understood that time was working against them, because the young generation [in Russia] is not interested in their tv propaganda and does not believe that Russia is a besieged fortress encircled by enemies,” says Grigory Sverdlin, one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians who have fled since the war began.
Ukrainians are still the main force behind anti-war protests abroad, but Russian organizations along with individuals have called for public action to unite, and to join Ukrainians and their supporters around the date of February 24.
In the last year, Russian forces have killed, raped, tortured, deported, or forcibly transferred Ukrainian civilians to Russia or Russian-occupied areas. More than 14 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes. Millions have suffered from severely disrupted access to electricity and water due to Russia’s widespread targeting of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
Social media users and Russian activists react to Putin's speech. "Navalny, Yashin, Gorinov, Kara-Murza, Chanysheva, Pivovarov and others – these are the real politicians of the Russian Federation, who are really worth listening."
A Dalit majority area consisting of more than 25,000 houses situated near the Tughlaqabad Fort in New Delhi is facing the threat of evictions after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) served an eviction notice to residents last month.
The detained human rights activist Ding Jiaxi has expressed concern for protesters who have disappeared since participating in the “blank paper” protests against the zero-Covid policy in China last year. At least 16 of them are still in police detention, according to names gathered by activists, while Ding himself has been detained for more than three years.
Angry debate about Turkey’s poor housing standards has erupted since last week’s earthquakes. Amid the outrage, critics point to the town of Erzin as an example of how properly implemented building laws can prevent deaths.
Rather than uniting the country and its people after the tragedy, the ruling government has resorted to division and enmity. One example occurred in Pazarcik, a district in the the epicenter of the earthquake. According to reports, local authorities seized the donated goods at the Crisis Coordination Center. "The governor of Pazarcik showed up here with soldiers and seized the aid collected for distribution", Yurdagül Cabat, one of the volunteers, told a local newspaper.
Advocates of Huang Xueqin accuse authorities of ‘trying to exert mental pressure and physical torture’ through repeatedly waking her at night for interrogation and depriving her of sleep. Huang is a journalist and was a prominent voice of the #MeToo movement in China.
Chinese authorities want to send the same chilling message to Hong Kong that, as on the mainland, critical voices deemed a threat to the regime will be severely dealt with, according to Chinese activists. "The Communist Party believes civil society is a threat to a dictatorial regime", said Dr Teng Biao, a former mainland rights lawyer who called for the abolition of death penalty.
The Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, appears to have thwarted an attempt to stop law enforcement obtaining menstrual histories of women in the state.
Understanding how the coronavirus first infected people is important for preventing future outbreaks. "But without access to China, there is little that the researchers can do", says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.
Immigration authorities in Argentina are cracking down on Russian women who since the invasion of Ukraine have started travelling to Buenos Aires to give birth in order to gain Argentinian citizenship for their children.
The German government has been reassessing its economic relations with authoritarian countries after the Ukraine war laid bare the vulnerabilities if its energy dependence on Russia. Now the government is also imposing stricter requirements for firms dealing with China.
The retired workers were complaining about a steep cut in their medical benefits after the Wuhan government announced a public health insurance reform, which reduces the medical expenses one could claim from the state.
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