Press TV | December 26, 2020 Indian authorities have arrested at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists in anticipation of an uprising following the triumph of an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties in a local election, a senior police official unveiled. Those arrested included pro-independence leaders and members of the banned Jamat-e-Islami group, […]
By Andrei Dergalin – Sputnik – 24.12.2020 While victims of the witch trials were usually tried by courts that weren’t directly linked to the church, some argue that the church is also to blame due to the nature of the accusations during such proceedings. Catholic priests in the German city of Eichstätt have recently acknowledged […]
By Daniel Kovalik | RT | December 23, 2020 The dark story of the CIA running death squads in Afghanistan recently broken by the Intercept follows a very long pattern of US foreign policy going back to the 1960s. According to The Intercept, “Beginning in December 2018 and continuing for at least a year, Afghan […]
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network | December 9, 2020 The great Palestinian popular intifada (uprising) that mobilized, organized and unified the Palestinian masses – especially inside occupied Palestine, but also in the refugee camps, in exile and in diaspora – launched in December 1987. As we recall its 33rd anniversary, we note that hundreds of […]
Palestine Information Center – December 2, 2020 RAMALLAH – The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner has called for a transparent investigation into the use of armed force by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank. The UN Human Rights Office said that the Israeli forces critically injured at least […]
RT | December 2, 2020 The daughter of an 80-year-old woman killed when a tear gas grenade was fired into her apartment by French riot police two years ago has filed a legal complaint against former Interior Minister Christophe Castaner over the death. In 2018, Zineb Redouane was closing the shutters of her flat in […]
By Damian Wilson | RT | November 27, 2020 A shocking video of French police beating up a man who wasn’t wearing a mask showed the authorities’ iron-fist approach to enforcing regulations and suppressing protests. Will this be the new norm when the pandemic has passed? A British shopper recently spotted by police failing to […]
By James Tweedie – Sputnik – 25.11.2020 After the ‘America First’ foreign policy of Donald Trump – the first elected US president since Dwight Eisenhower not to start a major war – Joe Biden’s election portends a re-run of the Obama years, when the promise of peace was betrayed. Joe Biden says his cabinet appointments […]
Sputnik – 14.11.2020 A proposed French law could see images of police officers restricted from circulation. While supporters claim it will only be used to crack down on cyberbullying of law enforcement, critics claim it could be a danger to freedom of the press. Part of France’s new security bill would make it a criminal […]
teleSUR – November 14, 2020 Captain José Martínez Crespo, accused of organized crime, homicide, and forced disappearance, is the first detainee in a military prison for the case of the 43 education students of Ayotzinapa, who disappeared in 2014 in Mexico. According to the Mexican press, the Federal Military Judicial Police this week filled out […]
