Budget 2018-19

  China, which has arrested several journalists for their coverage of the Covid-19, is the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row, said a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists China, which has arrested several journalists for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent press freedom advocacy organisation. According to its annual global survey, at least 274 journalists have been jailed on December 1, exceeding the high of 272 in 2016.”China, which arrested several journalists for their coverage of the pandemic, was the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row. It was followed by Turkey, which continues to try journalists free on parole and arrest new ones; Egypt, which went to great lengths to keep custody of journalists not convicted of any crime; and Saudi Arabia,” the report highlighted. The CPJ has pointed out tha...

  Thousands of protesters in Belarus swarmed the streets of the capital to demand the resignation of the country’s longtime president and encountered police using stun grenades to break up the crowds Thousands of protesters in Belarus swarmed the streets of the capital to demand the resignation of the country’s longtime president for the 13th straight Sunday and encountered police using stun grenades to break up the crowds and making warning shots in the air from what authorities said were “non-lethal weapons”. Up to 20,000 people took part in the rally, the Visana human rights centre estimated. Large crowds of people gathered in the eastern part of Minsk headed toward Kurapaty, a wooded area on the city’s outskirts where over 200,000 people were executed by Soviet secret police during Stalinist-era purges. Demonstrators carried banners reading, “The people’s memory (lasts) longer than a life of a dictatorship” and “Stop torturing your people!” The crowds directed chants of “Go awa...