(2024-12-13). Saudi Arabia: Hosting UN Internet Conference Amid Crackdown. hrw.org Click to expand Image | A message is typed on a smartphone, July 2022. | © 2022 Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images | (Beirut) — Saudi Arabia is hosting a major United Nations conference on internet governance while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech, Human Rights Watch said today. Many are charged under the country's abusive counterterrorism law, and the authorities conduct invasive surveillance of civil society members at home and abroad. The 19th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held from December 15 to 19 in Riyadh, un…
(2024-12-13). Russia approves use of NovoSkin artificial skin. plenglish.com Moscow, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) Authorities in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, said on Thursday that NovoSkin, a product to replace human skin, was approved for use by the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor).
(2024-12-13). Video: new Syrian official says Israel — which is bombing and has invaded — is not Syria's enemy. skwawkbox.org 
The only enemy is Iran, Ayman al-Asimi tells BBC, as Israel destroys Syrian arms and infrastructure and seizes territory A senior official of the new Syrian regime has told the BBC that Israel is not an enemy, rather a friend or 'potential friend'. While Israel spent years semi-secretly supporting the terrorist groups, including ISIS and …
(2024-12-13). Conflict zones, main scene of journalist deaths. plenglish.com United Nations, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) Conflict zones were the scene of the most deaths of journalists this year, a UN report, which recognizes the percentage as the highest in more than a decade, warns.
By Apenisa Waqairadovu in Suva Fiji's coalition government has come under scrutiny over allegations of human rights violations. Speaking at the commemoration of International Human Rights Day in Suva on Tuesday, the chair of the Coalition of NGOs, Shamima Ali, claimed that — like the previous FijiFirst administration — the coalition government has demonstrated a…
As the corruption trial of Eli Feldstein, a former adviser to Netanyahu, is accused in the case of leaking a classified document related to captive negotiations in Gaza to shift critical media coverage of the Israeli leader. | The case, critics say, highlights d…
United Nations, December 12 (RHC)– Once again, the violent Zionist genocide in the Gaza Strip has brought Israel back into the world's spotlight, this time due to the large number of 193 journalists who have died at the hands of the Israeli army in Gaza.
FT says she has been listed for "vividly documenting their plight under Israel's offensive". | Since the start of Israel's war, the journalist, along with many others, gained notoriety for following the assault on social media, with videos typically beginning with the phrase "I'm still alive". | The publication also mentions that Owda was named for "highlighting every aspect of the catastro…
South Korean lawmakers submitted a bill on Wednesday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol The surprise declaration of martial law in the major US ally late on Tuesday caused a standoff with parliament, which rejected Yoon's attempt to ban political activity and censor the media, as armed troops forced their way into the National Assembly building in Seoul. | The main opposition Democratic…
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We look at the world of high-tech surveillance with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and filmmaker Matthew O'Neill. Their new HBO documentary Surveilled is now available for streaming. Farrow says he became interested in the topic after he was tracked by the Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube during his reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse. Although Black Cube used a "relatively low-tech approach," Farrow says the experience started him on a path to investigate more sophisticated methods of surveillance, including the powerful spyware Pegasus…
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol visits the Navy Special Warfare Flotilla in Jinhae, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, on March 10, 2023. (Republic of Korea, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) By Kiji Noh / Consortium News South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law, suspended the South Korean legislature and banned elected representatives from accessing the National …
"A fish rots from the head down." — Rumi By now, we have all heard rumblings of Empire's imminent collapse. Propaganda and government gaslighting can no longer hide the obvious fact that social, financial, cultural, and political systems have failed miserably. The advanced state of Empire's decomposition (rotting from the head down) caused by malevolent 
Union puts up banners and pins its colours to anti-worker protest as members react in disgust The Unite union has been condemned by workers and their union representatives for its attack on staff who complained about bullying in the unit run by Unite general secretary Sharon Graham's husband, Jack Clarke — who was on a …
The novel, Khalifah's first, appeared in Arabic in 2020 and is out this month in The short, bantering book starts on ordinary ground, introducing us to four bumbling Palestinian journalists in Jordan. But the action soon veers in…
The journalist Emilio Silva Barrera (born in Elizondo, Navarra, Spain, in 1965) belongs to the generation of grandchildren of those who experienced the Spanish Civil War as adults. His grandfather and namesake, a politically moderate small business owner in a small town in Northwestern Spain, was first harassed and extorted, later arrested, killed, and thrown …