Until recently, local and foreign journalists alike have been reticent to openly discuss their conflict with authorities, for different reasons. Local journalists — many of whom have joined the military or left the country — have, at times, hesitated to criticize the government, split between allegiance to their profession...
Meanwhile on Monday, the UN flag flew at half-mast at the Organisation’s offices around the world in memory of the 101 staff members of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, killed in Gaza since the start of Israel’s retaliation for Hamas’ massacres perpetrated in southern Israel on 7 October.
The experts sounded the alarm on the lack of information provided by Chinese authorities - deeming it a deliberate attempt to “make the world forget” about the individuals who are spending year after year in isolation.
While cleared of organising an August 2019 protest, the high-profile pro-democracy figures, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai and lawyers Margaret Ng and Martin Lee, had their convictions and sentences for participating in that rally upheld.
It gets weirder. One branch of the Christian charity takes children and has their parents put into jail, while another branch of the same Christian charity uses the parents’ unfair jailing as fundraisers for the charity, saying they will use the money to get the parents out of jail. (The parents they put into jail in the first...