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China, U.S. spar at WTO meeting over disputes
China and the United States exchanged sharp criticism at a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday, with Beijing calling Washington a “unilateral bully” and the U.S. accusing its rival of illegal retaliatory measures. China’s ambassador to the WTO Li Chenggang spoke at a meeting on trade disputes shortly after the United States lodged an appeal against a series of WTO…
Turkey says Sweden complicit in hate crime, NATO talks pointless
Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday accused Sweden of being complicit in a “hate and racist crime” for failing to prevent weekend protests in Stockholm by an anti-Islam and pro-Kurdish groups. Mevlut Cavusoglu also confirmed that a key meeting in Brussels to discuss Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership has been postponed, saying such a meeting would have been “meaningless” in the…
Google: Civil Antitrust Suit – Google monopolizes key digital advertising technologies
Today, the Justice Department, along with the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia, filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the…
Turkey fumes at Sweden in NATO membership dispute
Turkey on Tuesday lashed out at Sweden’s refusal to extradite a top reporter that Ankara has demanded in exchange for its ratification of Stockholm’s NATO membership bid. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Sweden to return dozens of people that he suspects either of involvement in a failed 2016 coup or of membership of a banned Kurdish militia that Washington and…
Not being covered in media: Official UK data on adverse reactions to vaccination and “excess deaths”
UK week ending 5 August 2022 Video and notes by Dr. John Campbell 799 deaths involving COVID-19 registered (6.5%) – Down from 923 in the previous week (7.3%) – (First decrease following six weeks of increases) – Lag of three weeks between infection and dying as a result of infection – Total number of deaths registered in the UK, W/E…
Watch: Warnings Grow over Nuclear Annihilation as Tensions Escalate Between U.S., Russia & China
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Australia applies Magnitsky sanctions for first time
On 29 March 2022, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs (the Minister) designated 39 individuals, including a number of Russian individuals engaged in serious corruption and human rights abuses, using the new powers set out in the Magnitsky sanctions amendments. Targeted financial sanctions and travel bans will apply to these persons from 30 March 2022. This is the first time…
Hong Kong: Arrests under Security Law, a serious concern
The human rights lawyer, who was arrested on 8 September, was a member of the Hong Kong Alliance, an advocacy group which organized an annual candlelight vigil marking the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.
Several other activists have been similarly arrested and charged under the National Security Law.
The law came into force at the end of June last year, giving Chinese central authorities greater power and control over all aspects of life in Hong Kong.
“Terrorism and sedition charges are being improperly used to stifle the exercise of fundamental rights, which are protected under international law, including freedom of expression and opinion, freedom of peaceful assembly and the right to participate in public affairs”, the Special Rapporteurs said, urging authorities to refrain from the using the National Security Law and to reconsider its application.