Human Rights
Friday 2 June 2023
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“There is no oppression at all. You have to visit this place if you want to find out the truth.”
China uses young vloggers to spread Communist Party propaganda and cover up state-directed crimes as part of its disinformation strategy, including on Tibet. -
“[M]any people in the current German administration have inherited Nazi genes. It is a fact.”
Despite Lavrov’s absurd rhetoric, there is no “Nazi gene” or Nazi regime in Ukraine. -
“Twitter users ridiculed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's European tour.”
Russian news outlets based their reports about Twitter users ridiculing Zelenskyy’s European visit on six tweets, two of which are non-existing, while the other four came from shadowy accounts. -
“The country’s democratic system, which continues to evolve and solidify as the government and people of Cambodia strive to ensure fair and transparent election processes, should be recognized and respected for its considerable successes."
Prime Minister Hun Sen disbanded the opposition before 2018 elections. His latest move against political competition is again aimed at preserving his decades-long grip on power. -
“We are not waging a war. It is a totally different thing to wage a war: it is a total destruction of infrastructure it is a total destruction of cities. We are not doing that. We seek to preserve the infrastructure; we seek to preserve human lives.”
Russia waged a war on Ukraine that destroyed at least nine Ukrainian cities and more than $400 billion worth of Ukrainian infrastructure. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed or injured. -
“We saved a whole country called [the Central African Republic], saved tens of thousands of lives from bandits, terrorists, and, most importantly, from the French.”
Wagner Group mercenaries have engaged in systemic violence against civilians in the Central African Republic to secure access to mineral resources. -
Russia waged a war on Ukraine, not vice versa. Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
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“These kids are already in Russia. These are children from those regions that have recognized themselves as Russia.”
Lvova-Belova flipped reality on its head, claiming Russia was saving the very children it was bombing, further subjecting them to family separation, militarization, and alleged cultural erasure. -
“Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a series of missile attacks with long-range precision air and sea-based weapons against the military-industrial complex of Ukraine. All targets were hit and destroyed.”
Russian missiles hit residential areas killing two and wounding more than 40 Ukrainian civilians. Hundreds of homes have been damaged and destroyed. -
"These ex-USSR countries don't have actual status in international law because there is no international agreement to materialize their sovereign status."
Most countries, including China, recognized all 15 former Soviet republics as independent states. -
Ukraine has liberated 63% of the territory that Russia occupied during the full-scale invasion of 2022 and 46% of the territory Russia has occupied since 2014.
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“On 12 April, ABC News fed its audience with another propaganda story borrowed from BBC.”
Far from being a piece of propaganda and disinformation, the BBC cited the Human Rights Watch report that said both Russia and Ukraine have used landmines in Kharkiv region.