I would think the political parties in Russia should have very vibrant campaigns soon. If they can't wage them in Russia, then wage them from The West.
Safety in numbers. The more speeches about opening Russia to freedom and democracy, the more the message will be heard.
April 28, 2014 10:45 AM
Safety in numbers. The more speeches about opening Russia to freedom and democracy, the more the message will be heard.
April 28, 2014 10:45 AM
Six bloggers and three journalists were taken into police custody late last week after their houses were searched. They appeared in court Sunday morning and were informed of the charges against them: working with a foreign organization that claims to be a human rights group and agreeing to incite public violence through social media.
According to Lily Yekoye, a friend of one of the jailed journalists, friends and family are being denied access to their loved ones....
Man, oh, man; Egypt is just awash with all kinds of human rights violations, isn't it?
Last updated: 28 Apr 2014 10:31
Baher Mohamed says (click here) abandoning campaign to free him from Egypt jail would empower those who want to suppress free speech.
An Al Jazeera journalist imprisoned in Egypt has thanked the international campaign to free him and his colleagues in a letter smuggled from prison.
Baher Mohamed is one of three Al Jazeera staff held by Egyptian authorities since December.
In the letter obtained by Al Jazeera on Monday, Mohamed spoke of his "gratitude and appreciation" for the way journalists around the world has responded to his detention....
Well, looky thar, it is a green uniform. Yes, indeed, nothing like playing both ends against the middle. I think they call that corruption.
As demonstrators protested outside and the State Department condemned the latest Egyptian death sentences of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy sought Monday, April 28, to convince an elite Washington audience that Egypt is still moving toward a participatory democracy and values its relations with the United States.
But Fahmy, speaking before the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), also said that Egypt has other options, including “an emerging relationship with Russia [that] we will seek to nurture and leverage....
...Hours before Fahmy spoke, a provincial Egyptian judge sentenced the spiritual guide of the Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and 682 others, to death. At the same time, a Cairo court banned the activities of the April 6 Movement, a secular liberal group that helped instigate the revolt against Mubarak in 2011 and that has protested the wholesale crackdown on political freedoms in the country since Egypt’s only democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, was ousted last summer....
