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"Kept in a cage that looked like it was for an animal": Tortured in secret Chinese jail, a Japanese man describes his ordeal (safeguarddefenders.com)

Hideji Suzuki, the former President of Japan China Youth Exchange had been locked up in a ‘Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location’ (RSDL) facility for the seven months. RSDL is a notorious system where the suspect is kept incommunicado without access to a lawyer for months at a time. It is a system that has been...

Russia could step up chemical attacks in Ukraine, warns expert (www.euronews.com)

On Sunday, Russia was accused of using phosphorus on the besieged city of Bakhmut, with Ukraine releasing footage purporting to show it raining down on its positions. Phosphorus creates flash fires that are incredibly hard to put out. If people are hit with the chemical they suffer horrendous burns, which actually accelerate if...

"We have to refine our democracy": Warren Buffett criticises handling of bank crisis in the US, warns of growing "tribalism in Washington" (www.businesslive.co.za)

Bank shareholders and executives should bear the risks of mismanagement, the Berkshire Hathaway chair and CEO says, with vice chair Charlie Munger criticising that executives are more concerned with getting rich than with customers.

Deputy chairman of UK's ruling party tells anti-monarchy protesters to ’emigrate’ (www.independent.co.uk)

Regarding protesters who were holding up signs reading ‘Not My King’ near Buckingham Palace during Saturday’s coronation, Tory MP Lee Anderson wrote on Twitter: “If you do not wish to live in a country that has a monarchy the solution is not to turn up with your silly boards.” Meanwhile, human rights organisations...

China is increasingly barring citizens and foreigners from leaving the country, often for no official reason, report says (safeguarddefenders.com)

The Communist Party has been widening the legal landscape for imposing exit bans and is increasing their use against human rights defenders and their families, for holding people hostage to force targets overseas to come back to China -a practice called ‘persuade to return’, a form of transnational repression-, controlling...

"Free Jimmy Lai": Visitors to the House of Commons in the UK forced to hand over leaflets on press freedom in Hong Kong (www.theguardian.com)

Officials said that ‘members of the public’ are not allowed to bring on ‘political slogans or materials’ to the parliamentary estate. The material was eventually returned under pressure from David Davis, a former minister. The row comes at a sensitive time for UK-China relations, with ministers already facing pressure to...

British MP Stella Creasy says police ‘green lighting’ trolls to target politicians’ children (www.theguardian.com)

A man contacted the authorities arguing that the MP’s “extreme views” would damage her children and they should be removed from her care. Creasy has been a prominent campaigner on misogyny and violence against women. The man’s complaint was quickly dismissed, but the police decided that this man, who had no personal...

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani admits to ‘dirty trick’ to suppress Hispanic vote in 1993 elections (www.theguardian.com)

On Tuesday this week, Giuliani revealed voter suppression tactics to the far-right Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon and Arizona’s defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake during a discussion on his America’s Mayor Live program.

"Harmful ideological influences": pro-Beijing politicians urge Hong Kong to scrap the Gay Games 2023 (globalvoices.org)

The Gay Games, an international LGBTQ+ sport and cultural event, are set to begin in November 2023 in Hong Kong and Mexico. However, pro-Beijing Hawish networks wanted the authorities to step in and scrap the event. Junius Ho, one of Hong Kong’s most vocal anti-LGBTQ+ politicians, launched an online petition on April 20...

China accuses journalist of espionage allegedly over meetings with foreign diplomats and journalist (nieman.harvard.edu)

Dong Yuyu, who often met with foreign diplomats, academics and journalists in the course of his work, was detained on February 2022 while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat at a hotel in Beijing. His family was notified in March 2023 that his case would be sent to trial, though the charges remain unclear.

How the US anti-vaccine disinformation on COVID-19 is appropriated in China (globalvoices.org)

A heavily edited video commenting on US pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer’s research on the COVID vaccine produced by Project Veritas, a controversial far-right media outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, has gone viral in mainland China with additional claims that the COVID-19 virus was mutated and spread by Pfizer....

National Science Media Museum in Bradford has 52 years of the Daily Herald Newspaper Archive online (artsandculture.google.com)

In the words of the American writer Susan Sontag, “To collect photographs is to collect the world.” And to see the world as it was, from dramatic historical events to the quirks of everyday life, there’s no better place to begin than a photo archive. Newspapers – whose photojournalists capture everything from grand state...

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