AFGHANISTAN - #Taliban whip women protesters and beat journalists covering protests: DW News

9 September 2021

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A wave of protests has followed the Taliban's announcement of their government line up. The entirely male selection has been seen as another step away from their promise to respect women's rights. Protesters have faced violence, and now a new ban on unauthorised demonstrations

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China - Four Chinese citizen journalists still missing after investigating #Covid-19 in #Wuhan: FRANCE 24 English 1.36M subscribers

Since coming to power in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched an unprecedented crusade against press freedom. Facing censorship, threats from police and sometimes jail, the last few independent reporters - those who don't work for state media serving Communist Party propaganda - are no longer able to sell their articles. Recently, at least four citizen journalists, who were investigating the real death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan, have disappeared. More than six months after their arrests, there is still no trace of them. Our correspondents report.

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Belarus: Snatched off the streets of Belarus ahead of next month’s elections: Life in Europe’s last dictatorship: BBC News 7.94M subscribers

Activists and journalists are being rounded up and jailed in Belarus ahead of next month’s elections. 

People say it’s the most brutal crackdown the country has ever known. President Lukashenko is has been in power for more than a quarter of a century, but opposition to the authoritarian leader is growing. 

 Our Europe correspondent Jean Mackenzie has been given rare access to the country often described as Europe’s Last Dictatorship. 

Produced by Sara Monetta, filmed and edited by Andy Smythe.

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#Belarus. As I recently wrote, "the human capacity for patience and endurance, in the face of blatant injustice, is not without limits". There are clearly tensions visible in the Belarusian society. People cannot accept such level of injustice. The extent of it is astonishing pic.twitter.com/7WFiUz3wof

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