Nato condemns 'dangerous' Russian nuclear rhetoric
Nato has condemned Russia's "dangerous" and "irresponsible" rhetoric after Vladimir Putin's decision to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
The organisation is "closely monitoring" the situation and said the move would not lead it to change its own nuclear strategy.
The US said it did not believe Russia was preparing to use nuclear weapons.
Belarus shares a long border with Ukraine, as well as with Nato members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Ukraine has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address the potential threat of President Putin's announcement on Saturday.
Rwanda scheme would ‘completely erode’ UK’s standing on world stage
New Human Rights Watch head Tirana Hassan says UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers is ‘cheap politics’
The UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda would “completely erode” Britain’s standing on the world stage, the new head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
Tirana Hassan, who takes over as HRW’s executive director on Monday, also said other conservative governments in Europe were considering following Britain’s lead and looking at African states as an offshore dumping ground for asylum seekers, potentially dealing further blows to established refugee protections.
“Everyone should care about this. This isn’t just about what’s happening in the UK,” Hassan told the Guardian, on the eve of her confirmation as HRW’s permanent new chief, succeeding Kenneth Roth, who did the job for nearly three decades.
Turkish photojournalist charged with ‘insulting’ police over violent arrest at Pride march
Thousands have been detained in Turkey since a crackdown after the attempted coup against Erdogan
Prominent Turkish photojournalist Bülent Kılıç, who was arrested while covering a banned Istanbul Pride march, is now facing prosecution for insulting the police who detained him, according to the press freedom group Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA).
The Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer was pinned to the ground and knelt on by officers while working on coverage of the 26 June, 2021 event.
A court ordered authorities to pay him damages, ruling that police used “disproportionate force”, after the MLSA brought a case.
The UnwantedGeorgians Don't Always Roll Out Welcome Mat for Russian Exiles
Up to a million Russians have left their country since Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Many have ended up in Georgia. They have brought along an economic boom, while at the same time reopening many past wounds.
By Katrin Kuntz and Dmitrij Leltschuk (Photos) in Tbilisi
On the 17th floor of a high-rise, with a view over the crowded cityscape of Tbilisi, Artem Ivanov, a Russian IT engineer, is immersed in a reality that he never envisioned. For his work in Georgia, the 23-year-old has bought himself an ergonomic office chair with an adjustable headrest, his only significant purchase since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ivanov works as an IT expert. Among his clients, he says, is a British bank that provided its services inside Russia before the war. He left Moscow in March 2022 with a number of co-workers, but his family is still there, which is why he has chosen to go by a pseudonym for this article. "If I hadn’t left, I would have lost my job." Western sanctions, he says, would have made it impossible for him to work inside Russia.
French pension protests: Brav-M, the special police unit accused of brutality
They ride in pairs, are armed with handguns, expandable batons and tear gas grenades, and have been specially trained to prevent protests from spiralling out of control. But since France’s pension protests began, officers belonging to France’s special Brav-M motorbike unit have increasingly been accused of taking the law into their own hands, intimidating and threatening people, and in some cases, resorting to the use of excessive force.
On Friday, four days after Paris was the scene of one of the most violent demonstrations in years as hundreds of thousands of people thronged the streets to protest the government’s pension reform, French daily Le Monde and online video broadcaster Loopsider published a troubling audio recording.
In the nearly 20-minute-long clip, police officers are heard humiliating and menacing a young man, who claims to be from Chad, telling him that if they see him on the streets again “you won’t be getting into a police van to go to the station, you will be getting into something else, called an ambulance, and go to hospital”.
Hong Kong residents hold first protest in years under new rules
Police grant organisers a ‘no objection’ letter on condition they ensure the protest does not violate national security laws.
Hong Kong police have permitted a small protest march under tight restrictions in one of the first demonstrations to be approved since the enactment of a sweeping national security law in 2020.
Several dozen demonstrators on Sunday were required to wear numbered lanyards and were barred from wearing masks, as police monitored their march against a proposed land reclamation and rubbish processing project.
Participants chanted slogans against the reclamation project as they marched in the rain with banners in the eastern district of Tseung Kwan O, where the project is slated to be built.
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