Egypt disqualified a track cyclist from the Paris Olympics following an incident of unsportsmanlike behavior. But there is general confusion in Egyptian society — whether in politics or soccer — over the concept of competition.
Tag: political prisoners
In the release of 26 people from seven countries, freedom for those unjustly imprisoned is great news. But this case, which included the freeing of the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, could also set up an international precedent: journalists can be used as geopolitical bargaining chips.
Foreign condemnations and sanctions will not force Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro to abandon power after losing the recent presidential elections. The army could, but with a security system designed by Cuban advisers, it is firmly under regime control.
Brazilian journalist Ludmila Pizarro grew up surrounded by idealists who were targeted and tortured during Brazil’s brutal dictatorship. But it wasn’t until she started researching a story to mark 60 years from the beginning of the dictatorship that she learned the details of her father’s own ordeal. For Agência Pública, she reconstructs the story of her family’s past.
With Putin’s war in Ukraine, people may need reminding that Belarusian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko is a dictator in Europe’s midst, write German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in an article for Die Welt.
For the third year in a row, Nahid Taghavi, a retired architect and German citizen, is in Tehran’s brutal Evin Prison, where she has been mistreated after being wrongly convicted on trumped up charges as the Iranian regime exploits her foreign citizenship for money and influence.
Bobby Sands died on this day in 1981, after 66 days on a hunger strike. He had refused food in protest of the British government’s refusal to grant him and other IRA prisoners political prisoner status. Who was Bobby Sands? Bobby Sands was an Irish nationalist and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). […]
Though the Egyptian president has authorized the release of some 100 political prisoners, the global human rights organization says thousands more are languishing inside prisons for doing no more than engaging in peaceful protest.