The WikiLeaks founder’s “prolonged solitary confinement in a high security prison is neither necessary nor proportionate,” said Nils Melzer on Tuesday.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Top UN Anti-Torture Official Again Urges Assange’s Release
Category: Human Rights
Who Gets it First?
The run on the coronavirus vaccine is also about power and image. Dispatches from Argentina, Kenya and Serbia.
This CN Live! Documentary May Have Been Illegal Under Proposed Law
In March CN Live! was in Paris to film a documentary on the Yellow Vests movement that included footage of French police that under a proposed law, now being rewritten, could have incurred a €45,000 fine.
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History
If those who struck on Nov. 26 formed a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world after China, India, the United States and Indonesia, writes Vijay Prashad.
LETTER FROM INDIA: ‘Love Jihad’: India Is Further Dividing Hindus & Muslims
A new law in Uttar Pradesh adds to the attack on the country’s core values of secularism and pluralism, Betwa Sharma reports.
COVID-19: Vaccine Apartheid
An every-country-for-itself approach is irrational during a pandemic, writes Jayati Ghosh. And yet, that is exactly what many countries have done.
ELECTION 2020: More Humane Cages?
Passing as a Refugee
For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies, writes Keren Weitzberg.
ELECTION 2020: Democracy Calls Us to Fight ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ Argument
From “Hope and Change” to “Make America Great Again, the system entices people to consume the illusion of choice, writes Nozomi Hayase.
ELECTION 2020: 19th Century Polling Laws to Stop Parties Kidnapping Voters May Be Inadequate This Time
Vestigial laws may be ill-equipped for hyper-partisan 2020, writes Kristin Kanthak.