Twitter users are exposing pro-Russian sentiment in China, and Beijing is not happy
Updated 0932 GMT (1732 HKT) April 13, 2022
Anonymous Twitter users are exposing the extreme nationalism and pro-Russian sentiment circulating online in China -- and Beijing is not happy about it.
Russian student journalists sentenced to labour over freedom of assembly video
In ‘absurd, made-up case’ four ex-Doxa journalists handed two-year sentences over video defending right of students to demonstrate
Four journalists who worked for an independent Moscow student magazine have been sentenced to two years “corrective labour” over an online video in which they defended young Russians’ freedom of assembly.
Former Doxa journalists Armen Aramyan, Natasha Tyshkevich, Alla Gutnikova and Volodya Metelkin had been under house arrest for almost a year after they were detained in April 2021 for posting a three-minute video on YouTube in which they said it was illegal to expel and intimidate students for participating in rallies in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
A Moscow court on Tuesday said the video had encouraged “the involvement of minors” in anti-Kremlin protests.
France: Le Pen's Russia ties could lower her chances
Far-right candidate Le Pen's proximity to Russia's Putin doesn't seem to have affected her performance in the first round of France's presidential elections. But that could change in the run-off vote.
When Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in late February, the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen joined in the chorus of international voices condemning the aggression.
That was just six weeks before she came second in France's first round of presidential elections and qualified for the run-off vote against the incumbent Emmanuel Macron.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian human rights lawyer in West Bank
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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man on Wednesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, as Israeli troops continued a days-long operation in the occupied West Bank in response to a spate of deadly attacks.
The death is the latest in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence that has erupted as Muslims mark the holy month of Ramadan.
The Health Ministry said Muhammad Assaf, 34, was shot in the chest in the West Bank city of Nablus. The details surrounding his death were not immediately available and the Israeli military had no immediate comment. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 11 others were injured as a result of the Israeli military's activities in the area.
In a statement, the military said only that forces were “conducting counterterrorist operations” in the northern West Bank.
64 Ukrainian students start university life in Japan
By TOMOKO TAKAKI/ Staff Writer
April 13, 2022 at 16:51 JST
With their eyes on the future and fear for their homeland in their hearts, 64 Ukrainian evacuees participated in the entrance ceremony at the Japan University of Economics' Fukuoka campus on April 12.
“I was sent to Japan for my future," one Ukrainian student said. "I would like to study many things.”
The students came to learn in Japan after fleeing Russia's invasion, and they started their university lives as they thought of their homeland.
In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to 'Descend on the Capitol'
One week before an angry mob stormed the Capitol, a communications expert named Jason Sullivan, a onetime aide to Roger Stone, joined a conference call with a group of President Donald Trump’s supporters and made an urgent plea.
After assuring his listeners that the 2020 election had been stolen, Sullivan told them that they had to go to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day that Congress was to meet to finalize the electoral count — and “descend on the Capitol,” according to a recording of the call obtained by The New York Times.
While Sullivan claimed that he was “not inciting violence or any kind of riots,” he urged those on the call to make their presence felt at the Capitol in a way that would intimidate members of Congress, telling the group that they had to ensure that lawmakers inside the building “understand that people are breathing down their necks.”
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