Human Rights
Friday 29 March 2024
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“On March 24, 1999, Western nations started bombing the city of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, under the far-fetched pretext of ‘protecting’ Kosovars.”
While the roots of the Kosovo war are complicated, and atrocities were committed by both sides, the evidence shows forced displacement, and the targeted killing of Kosovo Albanians, preceded the 1999 NATO intervention. -
“The Ordinance strikes a balance between safeguarding national security and ensuring rights, freedoms and economic growth…It does not at all undermine the high degree of autonomy in Hong Kong…The US itself has an airtight national security system, with a large number of laws and unparalleled extraterritoriality. However, it keeps pointing fingers at Hong Kong’s Safeguarding National Security Ordinance. This is sheer political manipulation and hypocritical double standards.”
Lin Jian’s remarks incorrectly draw a parallel between Article 23 and the U.S. legal system. Careful examination of Hong Kong’s new ordinance reveals that it is starkly different from U.S. principles and in effect undermines Hong Kong’s special status and autonomy. -
“Thanks to Russian security support, ‘Peace returns to the Central African Republic.”
Hostilities in Central African Republic (CAR) are ongoing, with some 10,000 children fighting in armed conflicts among various rebel groups. Russia’s involvement with CAR’s leadership is replete with corruption, misappropriation of natural resources, mass violence and human rights abuses. -
“I am among the first speakers to be banned from traveling to the Western countries because I do not believe in homosexuality,” she said.
Source: Uganda Parliament ,12, 2024The U.S. and U.K. imposed travel ban on Ugandan officials involved in violating human rights and undermining democracy. Ugandan rights activists also accuse Among of gross corruption. -
"People are dying in US prisons too, aren’t they?”.
Source: TASS, Marcy 17, 2024The issue is not that people die while incarcerated, but why Navalny and so many other Kremlin critics end up in prison or dead. -
‘’It seems having a passport and proper documentation at the airport makes people appear [more] suspicious than those crossing in millions on the borders without passports or any sought (sic) of documentation.’’
The video shows a foreign national with fake ID and invalid travel documents being questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel. -
“I am sure that the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet will laugh together today at the fact that their command is wanted by the International Criminal Court... this is just a nothingburger designed to stir up an information wave, nothing more.”
While Russia is a safe haven for suspected criminals, they will be arrested and brought to ICC if they travel to any of the 124 world nations that recognize the world court’s jurisdiction. Regime change in Russia can also end the impunity. -
“…the U.S. has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to the U.S.’ national security…”
ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 170 million users. -
“It is clear that, first of all, the woman who is exposed has committed the forbidden act of uncovering the hijab. Of course, she commits another mistake by shouting and attacking the young cleric.”
The woman rightfully asked a man wearing Muslim clerical clothing to delete from his mobile phone footage of her and her child he videoed without her consent. -
“Free supplies of Russian grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea, and the Central African Republic have made a significant contribution to the fight against hunger in Africa.”
The claim that Russia's 200,000 tons of grain would significantly contribute to fighting hunger in Africa is misleading because of the scope of the hunger problem and because Moscow has worsened the problem by backing out of the Black Sea grain deal. -
“Aaron Bushnell is a left-wing comrade... On February 26, just one day after Aaron's death, American communists announced the establishment of a political party in New York - the ‘Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States’ and shouted ‘Communists are revolutionary!’ ‘There is only one solution, and that is communist revolution!’"
Source: Weibo, Feb 27, 2024Aaron Bushnell’s life and suicide had no connection to the communist ideology or the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, which has existed since 1975. -
The Arabic calligraphy printed on the fabric of a woman’s dress was the word “Halwa.” It had nothing to do with the Quranic verses or blasphemy.