Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed but may face new charges
British-Iranian woman’s five-year sentence in Iran is complete, but her lawyer says she will have to go to court to face new charges
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released from house arrest in Iran on the completion of her five-year sentence, but the British-Iranian dual national will have to go to court to face a second set of charges on 14 March, according to her lawyer.
The second set of charges, long threatened by the Iranians, include involvement in propaganda activity against the Islamic Republic by attending a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in London in 2009 and speaking to BBC Persian.
“I think they have just closed the legal anomaly,” said her husband, Richard Ratcliffe. “So the ankle tag is taken off to close down the first case and avert formal steps from the UK, but she is in court again next week for the new one. So she remains leverage for them.”
Swarm of 20,000 earthquakes could trigger Iceland’s volcanoes to erupt
‘Effusive volcanic eruption’ could be imminent, scientists warn
Fiery eruptions spewing from Iceland’s volcanoes could follow the tens of thousands of earthquakes that have shaken the nation over the past fortnight, scientists fear.
Experts monitoring underground magma movements in the Reykjanes Peninsula, in southwest Iceland, are on tenterhooks. Seismic whispers and changes in the land’s shape mean an “effusive volcanic eruption could occur”, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO). But so far, nothing has happened.
Generation LockdownSchoolchildren Around the World Face a Steep Uphill Battle
By Marian Blasberg, Laura Höflinger, Katrin Kuntz und Fritz Schaap
When the twins Esther and Deborah Pereira still hadn't heard anything from their school by early February, despite months of waiting, they turned to books to satisfy their longing. Their father scraped together his savings to buy them: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," "Pinocchio" and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."
"We want to become dentists," they say after they hold up the colorful books, one after the other, in front of a smartphone camera.
Paris's renowned Latin Quarter bookshops feel the Covid-19 squeeze
Battered by Covid and online sales, one of Paris's best-known book sellers Gibert Jeune is to shut up shop in the city's historic literary and intellectual heart, a stone's throw from the banks of the Seine where the family-owned firm started out over 130 years ago.
The planned demise of the Gibert flagship shop in the Place Saint-Michel, as well as others nearby, follows the loss of the Boulinier shop last year.
On the Left Bank of the Seine, Paris's Latin quarter houses the Sorbonne. It has been a haunt of scholars since the middle ages and boasts dozens of booksellers.
Nine killed after Duterte’s order to ‘finish off’ communists
Duterte’s threat on Friday has sparked fears of a new wave of bloodshed.
At least nine activists have been killed following simultaneous police raids in the northern Philippines that came just two days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered government forces to “kill” and “finish off” all communist rebels in the country.
According to the police, six people were also arrested during the raids in three provinces surrounding Metro Manila on Sunday, while at least six others “escaped”.
Bloody Sunday memorial to honor late civil rights giants
The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans will honor four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in 2020, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will mark the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday — the day on March 7, 1965, that civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. Lewis, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, and attorney Bruce Boynton are the late civil rights leaders who will be honored on Sunday.
Bloody Sunday became a turning point in the fight for voting rights. Footage of the beatings helped galvanize support for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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