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48 Sunday, 13 October 2019- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica
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NRPTT:
Kurd massacre common responsibility
11
October 2019 – On the third day of
Turkey's Operation Peace Spring against
the SDF forces in Northern Syria, the numbers
speak for themselves: at least 342 SDF soldiers, 4
allied soldiers, 1 Turkish soldier, and at least
15 civilians on both sides have already lost their
lives. Various sources, among which the UN,
estimate 100.000 people have already fled their
homes in the region and the operation has led to
the closure of some of the area's main hospitals.
In Turkey, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said
121 people are in custody for expressing critical
opinions on the military operation on social
media, while nearly 500 people are under
investigation for "insulting" Turkey as an
"invading" country.
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Marcello
Viola v. Italy
The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday
rejected Italy’s request for referral in Marcello
Viola v. Italy, making the judgement in the case
final. The court, in June, held that Italy
violated Article 3 of the European Convention on
Human Rights by imposing an irreducible
sentence of life imprisonment (ergastolo
ostativo), the effect of which was to
preclude release on licence and access to other
reductions of sentence and alternatives to custody
for prisoners who did not satisfy the requirement
to cooperate with the judicial
authorities.
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Repeated
threats and purge of opposition grassroots members
by Hun Sen authorities
As
the November 9 date of announced return from exile
of CNRP leader and Member of the Honorary
Presidency of the Nonviolent Radical Party,
Transnational and Transparty, Sam Rainsy and other
leading members of the Party is rapidly
approaching, CNRP members are being arrested on a
daily basis in the country. Anyone expressing
support of the return of Sam Rainsy
will be arrested and charged as accomplices.
Comments and posts on social media are also
closely monitored. Prime Minister Hun
Sen has publicly announced that the
armed forces will be deployed on November 9 when
Mr. Sam Rainsy and other CNRP leaders living in
exile return to Cambodia, accompanied by MEPs and
other politicians from different countries.
Read the press
release
by
Mu Sochua, CNRP Vice
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Why
is Anti-Chinese Sentiment on the Rise in Central
Asia?
China’s
Dominance and Dept-Trap Diplomacy: Chinese
dominance in the region has raised major debates
about high-level corruption and demands for
transparency in government financial activities,
especially regarding expenditure of Chinese grants
and loans. Borrowing from Bejiing, in particular,
has accelerated in the last
decade.
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Getting
a new mobile number in China will involve a
facial-recognition test
Getting
a new mobile number in China will involve a
facial-recognition test
QUARTZ,
October 3rd, 2019- No anonymity here: China is
taking every measure it can to verify the
identities of its over 850 million mobile internet
users. From Dec. 1, people applying for new mobile
and data services will have to have their faces
scanned by telecon providers, the Ministry of
Industry and Information Technology said in a
Sept. 27 statement.
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“Eradicating
torture in Europe”
The
President of the Council of Europe’s Committee for
the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (CPT), during a joint
meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee
on Legal Affairs and Human Rights highlighted
major challenges faced by the CPT including its
relations with the United Nations Subcommittee on
Prevention of Torture (SPT), as well as the
concept of investigative interviewing by the
police and procedural safeguards against police
ill-treatment.
The
Vice-President underlined in particular the
exceptional nature of “public statements” issued
by the CPT on the Russian Federation
due
to the lack of action by the Russian authorities
to eradicate the widespread phenomenon of torture
and other forms of ill-treatment by law
enforcement agencies in the Chechen Republic and
other republics of the North Caucasian
region.
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