Senior ruling Conservative MPs have accused one of the most senior UK diplomats in China, Consul General Zheng Ziyuan, of being on the Manchester scene and tearing up posters during a peaceful protest. The removal of the six Chinese envoys is likely to appease China hardliners in the Conservative Party, who have called for their […]
But a return to normal means the country now faces a surge in cases it is unprepared to handle, millions of elderly people still not fully immunized and a vast number of patients in hospitals. Lack of carrying capacity. The country has one intensive care unit bed for 10,000 people, Xiao Yahui, director of the […]
According to his website, Molawi Abdolhamid, an outspoken Sunni cleric in the Shiite-ruled Islamic republic, criticized the death penalty. Molawi Abdolhamid said, “When someone has not committed murder but has only blocked a road and wounded a Basij (militia) member with a knife, he cannot be put to death under Shari’a. “ Addressing the officers, […]
“I have been closely following events in Bangladesh since July 2022 with reports of attacks and lethal force against peaceful protests,” said Clement Wooley. The UN official said that he had also raised concerns over similar incidents in Bangladesh in the past.
“Iran has the most progressive constitution in the world” because it matches “ideals with democracy”, Raisi said in a speech to lawmakers, quoting an unnamed African lawyer he said he had met several years earlier. “The constitution guarantees the (existence) of the Islamic order,” he said, adding that it also “guarantees fundamental rights and legitimate […]
The group is tightly organized into a rigid hierarchy and demands that AFP journalists stick closely to an official schedule for travel. Within the PDKI, “we are free”, said 36-year-old activist Shounem Hamzi, who lives with her parents in KoĊĦinjak. Before the latest attacks, she lived in a PDKI camp about 500 meters (yards) from […]
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, in his first public appearance since being injured in a gun attack earlier this month, said on Saturday that he was withdrawing his protest march to Islamabad as he feared it would create havoc in the country. Will go Since being ousted from power in April, Khan has been […]
