The vast scale of violations perpetrated through secretive cyber surveillance has exposed a global human rights crisis, Amnesty International warned, in a new briefing published following the revelations of the Pegasus Project investigation. The briefing, uncovering the iceberg: the digital surveillance crisis wrought by states and the private sector, […]
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Washington’s networks
The events that took place on 11 July in Cuba consisted in a large-scale media operation initiated mid-June using U.S. government funds, which, given the suffering of the Cuban people, only stifles them instead of helping them. Karina Marrón González Cuba has criticised the United States government for […]
Repression in Tigray: Beaten, harassed, arrested
Amnesty International calls on the authorities to release Tigrayans, activists and journalists, and reveal whereabouts of unnaccounted detainees. Arrests seem ethnically motivated and while some people released on bail, hundreds remain in detention Police in Addis Ababa have arbitrarily arrested and detained vast swathes of activists and journalists without […]
Is organized crime tied to Haiti president’s assassination?
A convicted cocaine trafficker is among the suspects that authorities in Haiti are pursuing in connection to the middle-of-the-night murder of former President Jovenel Moïse, raising questions about whether organized crime had any role in the high-profile assault. Parker Asmann InSight Crime Rodolphe Jaar, a former drug smuggler […]
China and its own brand of capitalism
The centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party has just passed and the event invites much reflection. Juan Diego García Supporters of capitalism are surprised to see how China, formerly backward and humiliated by Western colonialism and Japanese fascism, has become the world’s second power with […]