Authorities cut power at Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C.
Activists inside the embassy pointed out that the US is employing similar tactics to suppress the Embassy Protection Collective as it uses against Venezuela
Shack-dwellers movement boycotts the ANC and pledges vote to SRWP
Citing police brutality, arrests and assassinations they have been subjected to by the ANC government, the movement has concluded that voting ANC “is like digging our own graves.”
Outrage in Turkey as Erdogan calls for election re-run in Istanbul
Opposition parties claim that the Supreme Election Council nullified last month’s results due to pressure from Ergodan’s party who lost the bid
Thai human rights watchdog turns against its commissioner, activists cry foul
Angkhana Neelapaijit is under investigation for being “biased” against the ruling junta, the National Council for Peace and Order
March of Dignity, for Life and Justice to reach Guatemala City today
More than 1,000 Guatemalans began an 8-day-long march on May 1 from Quetzaltenango against corruption and impunity in the assassinations of human rights and Indigenous land defenders
Myanmarese journalists who reported Rohingya massacre freed after 511 days in prison
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to a seven-year jail term for violating the colonial-era Official Secrets Act in a trial marked by irregularities
Trump’s new Medicaid rule prohibits automatic payment of union dues
Critics of the new rule view it as an attack on the workers’ right to unionize and as a move to diminish the unions’ influence by targeting their funds.
“A fight is on to save Assange’s life”
Actor Pamela Anderson and WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson met the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, at Belmarsh prison on May 7