I was afraid of this. Peng Shuai has come forward, at an event in Shanghai (with no visible bruising) and publicly stated she never accused anyone of sexual abuse. It will be interesting to see what the WTA does ( Read more... )

It would appear the British legal system has completely abandoned any concept of law and fairness. The US has won the extradition appeal; Julian Assange, with the full cooperation of the British government, and the complete lack of resistance from a complicit Australian government, is to be extradited to the US to die for journalism and revealing ( Read more... )

We talk to Dr. Elizabeth Carter about how the press should responsibly cover such fake news and her just published PhD study looking at the linguistics of China’s televised confessionsA 30-minute video call between Peng Shuai and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was supposed to quell concerns about the Chinese tennis star’s safety, however ( Read more... )

By Cindy Carter

A slate of independent candidates for Beijing’s district-level People’s Congress have announced that they are suspending their grassroots campaign due to fears for their personal safety in the wake of police threats and intimidation. The announcement comes just two weeks after the 14 candidates-some of them relatives of civil ( Read more... )

By John Chan

A Hong Kong court has convicted three people of rioting, jailing them for at least four years despite a lack of evidence that they played any role in the riot. This is the latest conviction since a higher court upheld the doctrine of “joint enterprise” in riot and unlawful assembly prosecutions earlier this year, vastly expanding the ( Read more... )

By Mike Head

Without providing any details whatsoever, the front-page headline on last Saturday’s Weekend Australian declared: “Police launch raids on foreign agents ( Read more... )

By Oscar Grenfell

In a highly revealing incident, the Labor Party’s manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, shut-down a discussion in the federal parliament’s House of Representatives on the plight of persecuted WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on Tuesday evening ( Read more... )

• Bibi formally charged with cases 1000, 2000 and 4000 (bribery) and is, unexpectedly, facing a primary challenge from within his own party. Will he a) step down to deal with charges, b) deny, deny, deny, c) nuke Jordan or Syria.
• Gantz unable to form coalition government, so 3rd election on the way
• Bolivian right-wing fascist forces continue killing ( Read more... )

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Australia's Foreign Minister and members of the Uyghur community have condemned a "deeply disturbing" and "horrifying" video of Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang that has surfaced online.

Key points:

• Video purportedly shows Chinese police herding hundreds of Uyghur men
• The men have had their heads shaved and are blindfolded and shackled
• Australia ( Read more... )