There have
continued to be mass protests in Hong Kong, the special administrative territory of Communist China ,
against violations of the city-state’s autonomy and freedom, despite Peking’s
promise to guarantee them when Hong Kong
reverted from British rule in 1997. The
demonstrators have been successful in blocking a proposed extradition law that
would have allowed extradition to mainland China , which could have been used
against dissidents, but are standing for other demands for liberty.
There were more protests in Iran ,
despite the bloodiest crackdown by the Islamist theocratic tyranny since the
Islamic revolution of 1979.
The
opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s organization was raided and he was detained
by the tyrannical Russian
Federation regime of Vladimir Putin, in
advance of its planned expose of corruption.
Navalny has been arrested many teams as Putin does not tolerate the
freedom to assemble peacefully. Critics,
journalists and opposition leaders are routinely prosecuted, driven into exile
or murdered.
Freedom of
religion for Christians has been returning to Sudan under the transitional
military-civilian government, which includes a Christian, that replaced the
longtime Islamist tyrant. They were able
to celebrate Christmas openly for the first time in decades.
Three months
after the parliamentary elections, Austria will have a new government,
as the ruling center-right party that won the most seats in Parliament has
formed a coalition with the Greens. The
center-right had been governing in a coalition with the far-right, but the
latter party’s leader was forced to resign after being caught in a video
soliciting Russian campaign contributions; his party then withdrew from the
Government, necessitating new elections.
No comments:
Post a Comment