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30 sunday, 09 June 2019- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli and Martina Paterna
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41st
Congress of the Nonviolent Radical Party,
Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT) will be held
in Rome from 5 to 7 July 2019 at Auditorium
Antonianum (viale Manzoni 1) beginning on Friday
5th July at 11 am.
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On
May 21st Roberto Giachetti, PD deputy, suspended
his thirst strike for the life of Radio Radicale
started at midnight on Thursday May 16th and he is
continuing the nonviolent initiative with the
hunger strike. Maurizio Bolognetti, who had
suspended his hunger strike after 78 days on May
16, resumed the non-violent initiative on May
24
308
citizens are participating in the non-violent
initiative with a few days of hunger strike for
the life of Radio Radicale.
Here the form to join
the hunger strike and the complete
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On
June 4th the National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) gave its 2019 Democracy Award to defenders
of human and religious rights in China in the U.S.
Capitol, exactly 30 years after the massacre of
pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing in 1989. In
particularly the NED gave its annual award to
the World Uygur Congress, the Tibet Action
Institute and ChinaAid
“The
2019 Democracy Award honors three groups who are
working at the forefront of one of the most
important human rights struggles of our time,”
said NED president Carl Gershman.
Dolkun
Isa, president of the World Uygur Congress, member
of the Radical Party, has expressed his hope that
this award could bring more support for the Uygur
cause from the international
community and more international
pressure on China to end its mass detention of the
group.
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Amirsalar
Davoudi, Iranian human rights lawyer arrested on
20 November 2018, has been sentenced to 30 years
in prison and 111 lashes for his human rights
work, including setting up on the Telegram,
a cloud-based instant messaging
service, to expose human rights violations.
He has been convicted of “insulting
officials”, “insulting the Supreme Leader” and
“spreading propaganda against the
system”.
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The
situation along the US-Mexican border is
worsening, as the number of migrants illegally
crossing the border has reached an unprecedented
level. U.S. Customs and Border
Protection released the
agency’s May 2019 migration statistics on Tuesday.
Only in May, Customs and Border
Protection agents apprehended 132,887 people at
the southern border.
This week’s Report on
unannounced visits of four migrant detention
facilities in 2018 from the US Department of
Homeland Security watchdog, the Office of
Inspector General (OIG), has revealed
distressing conditions for migrants in the
custody of US
immigration agencies.
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Sudan.
On Monday, at least 108 people were killed
after Sudanese security forces launched
a massive crackdown against protesters at a
central Khartoum sit-in.
President
of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki
severely condemned the violence urging the
Military Transition Council to protect civilians
from further violence and inviting all
international partners to reinforce common
commitments to the cessation of violence and for a
peaceful negotiation of the political
solution.
The
African Union has suspended Sudan’s participation
in all AU activities with immediate effect “until
the effective establishment of a Civilian- led
Transitional Authority, as the only way to
allow the Sudan to exit from the current
crisis”.
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