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Asia · Phnom PenhProminent Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha was on Friday sentenced to 27 years of house arrest after being found guilty of treason, in a case condemned by the United States as politically motivated.
Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha sentenced to 27 years of house arrest
41% Center coverage: 66 sources
US & Canada · Port of SpainHuman Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Trinidad & Tobago to repatriate more than 90 of its citizens who have been detained as Islamic State suspects and family members in war-torn Syria, noting that at least 56 of them are children.
Activists call on Trinidad to repatriate citizens in Syria
50% Left coverage: 8 sources
Josh Shapiro · PennsylvaniaDemocratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the state’s lawmakers to repeal the death penalty.
Gov. Josh Shapiro blocks death penalty in Pennsylvania, calls for repeal
44% Center coverage: 38 sources
Europe · IzyumHuman Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Ukraine to investigate its military’s alleged use of landmines near the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum.
Human Rights Watch calls on Ukraine to investigate landmine accusations
Coverage: 16 sources
Vladimir Putin · MoscowRussian President Vladimir Putin on Friday repeated a claim that neo-Nazis were committing crimes in Ukraine -- an allegation Moscow has used to justify its military intervention -- as the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Putin Blasts 'Neo-Nazis' In Ukraine On Holocaust Remembrance Day
47% Center coverage: 81 sources
Middle East · BeirutSince the collapse of Lebanon’s state power grid, many middle and working class families have been forced to spend most of their monthly income to pay shady neighborhood businessmen running private generators.
Rights group says Lebanon electricity crisis deepens poverty
45% Center coverage: 9 sources
SanctionsThe U.S. Treasury Department says it imposed sanctions on two senior Iranian prison officials. Washington also put sanctions on Iran's top army commander, a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Also hit with sanctions were three Iranian companies and their leaders who have enabled law enforcement repression.
US Targets Iranian Officials, Companies in Fresh Sanctions
44% Right coverage: 9 sources
Maha Vajiralongkorn · BangkokA Thai man was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for selling calendars featuring satirical cartoons of yellow ducks that a court said mocked the country’s monarch, a legal aid group said. Bangkok’s Criminal Court ruled that the calendar for 2021 containing pictures of yellow ducks in poses resembled and ridiculed Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn, diminishing his reputation, the group Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said.
Thai man gets 2-year term for calendar said to mock king
45% Center coverage: 31 sources
