Calls for expedited probes into protester deaths and other atrocities. Dieng says 99 people have been killed and more than 5,000 injured. Adama Dieng raises concerns over arbitrary and mass arrests of activists. UN human rights specialists in Sudan called for expedited probes into protester deaths and other atrocities on Saturday, As the death toll … Read more
Many of the protesters were supporters of Islamist groups. A violent crackdown on the anti-coup protests has left nearly 100 people killed. Burhan lifted, state of emergency that had been in place since the coup on Sunday. The UN mission in Sudan was extended for another year on Friday, despite protests in the country against … Read more
Hong Kong has reacted angrily to what it calls “unfounded and ludicrous charges” made in important reports from the United Kingdom and the United States, which claim that the territory’s democratic rights and freedoms are deteriorating. The UK, which administered Hong Kong as a colony until handing it over to China in 1997, said in … Read more
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas Monday to disperse hundreds of protesters who rallied near the presidential palace in Khartoum demanding civilian rule, witnesses said. It was the latest rally in recent weeks by Sudanese opposed to a military-dominated government in the country where top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power in an October coup. … Read more
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested today (Aug 10) under a new a new national security law. According to the details, authorities arrested Lai Chee-Ying, known professionally as Jimmy Lai under a new national security law, detained over suspected collusion with foreign armies as about 200 police searched the offices of his … Read more
On Friday, Twitter said it had deleted more than 170,000 accounts which were linked to the Chinese government disinformation campaign that targeted Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and found to discredit the United States. The announcement came as a fellow American tech firm, video messaging app Zoom, said it acceded to the demands of Beijing for … Read more
