Evidence for the arrest was based on social media content Nineteen year-old Tony Chung, one of the four arrested. Photo taken by Kris Chung / HKFP. The original version of this post was published on the Hong Kong Free Press on July 29 2020. The following edited version is publishedContinue Reading
Peaceful protest in Belgrade, 10 July 2020. Photo by Wikipedia user OakMapping, CC BY-SA 4.0. Over the past several years, Belgrade has been the setting for mass protests demanding transparency and accountability from the government led by President Aleksander Vučić of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). Protests against gentrification andContinue Reading
‘Journalists must be allowed to report facts freely & independently’ Health workers queue for a bus into Bulawayo City from Nketa, Zimbabwe. Many of Zimbabwe’s essential workers lack PPE clothing but have been reporting to works nonetheless, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, April 20, 2020.Credit: KB Mpofu / ILO via Flickr CC BY-NC-NDContinue Reading
It’s ‘inconsistent with [the constitution] for GECOM to disenfranchise electors’ The Court of Appeal hearing regarding Guyana’s elections recount case, which took place on July 25, 2020. Screenshot taken from the Stabroek News livestream of the hearing. Guyana’s general election took place on March 2, 2020, a year after itContinue Reading
“Enforced disappearances are used […] to silence dissenters” Matiullah Jan, a renowned journalist and critic of the Pakistan Military. Screenshot from YouTube video by Naya Daur TV. On the morning of July 21, Matiullah Jan, a renowned journalist and critic of the Pakistan military, was abducted in Islamabad by unidentifiedContinue Reading
The comedians took jabs at lopsided, ethnically motivated government appointments A YouTube screenshot Bizonto Comedians appearing in the skit that got them arrested. The Ugandan police arrested four comedians of the Bizonto Comedy Group at Radio Simba, where they work, on Friday, July 24. The arrests came after the comedians released aContinue Reading
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“There is nothing to apologize for” A section of the Red House, which was the seat of parliament of Trinidad and Tobago in 1990, when a group of insurgents stormed the building as part of an an attempted coup d’etat. Photo by (ha)SanMan_ish on Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0. Thirty yearsContinue Reading
Online or in the streets, Brazilians are demonstrating against fascism Anti-fascist demonstration in Porto Alegre. On the sign: “Democracy is not negotiable. Demilitarization of the government now!” Photo by Maia Rubinm via Benedictas Fotocoletivo (CC BY-NC 2.0) Every time Leandro Bergamin goes to a demonstration, he makes sure to not leaveContinue Reading
