Academic faces charges over book
Giles Ji Ungpakorn, professor of political science at the University of Chulalonkorn, has been charged with insulting the king in his book A Coup for the Rich, published in 2007.
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Russia: crimes without punishment
The murder of Anastasiya Baburova (right) and Stanislav Markelov is part of a brutal trend. Russians who stand up for human rights may pay with their lives, says Tanya Lokshina
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Russia: double murder another blow for human rights
Index on Censorship, Article 19 and English PEN have issued a joint statement on the shocking murder of Anastasiya Barburova and Stanislav Markelov in Moscow yesterday. Read below
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President Obama
Watch history made here
Update: Full text here
Among other things, I liked this bit: ‘To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history.’