Olympic athlete Timanovskaya sought protection from Japanese police at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Sunday after saying she had been ordered to return to Belarus against her wishes. The 24-year-old has since taken refuge at the Polish embassy in Tokyo after Warsaw offered her a humanitarian visa. Timanovskaya was seen …
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Following Labour’s surprise victory in the Batley and Spen by-election, Sir Keir Starmer, the party leader, declared that “Labour is back.” It seems a somewhat strange assertion, considering that his party’s majority had been cut from over 3,000 to 323 during the by-election. It also might be a little premature, …
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The Working Group on the use of mercenaries, composed of five independent experts with a mandate to advise the UN on human rights issues, called last week’s pardon of the four Blackwater contractors a violation of the international law and a blow to human rights “at a global level” in …
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The Russian Foreign Ministry’s media department blasted the actions against the Sputnik staff and other Russian-speaking journalists, in the Baltic country, as “an outrageous example of the violation of the core of foundations of a democratic society: the freedom of the media and the freedom of expression.” The ministry’s statement …
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