Chinese Communist Party-owned media outlet Renminwang reported Monday that the Chinese Ministry of Public Security began another week of promoting its operation to target online rumors and encourage rational commenting on the internet. As part of the campaign, the Ministry of Public Security released examples of online rumors to educate the public on how to [...]

Mexican journalist Nelson Matus Peña was shot and killed in the city of Acapulco in Guerrero on Saturday. He was the founder of ‘Lo Real de Guerrero‘, a Mexican media outlet. Human Rights Watch Researcher Tyler Mattiace announced Matus’s death on Monday. Mattiace further added that Matus survived a previous shooting in 2019 and was [...]

A Hong Kong court sentenced a man on Friday to 18 days in jail for “insulting” the national flag and regional flag, according to Hong Kong Free Press. The man, Yung Ching-man, was charged with one count of desecrating the Chinese national flag and one count of insulting the regional flag. Yung was arrested for [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal handed down its judgment on Friday on an appeal brought by the Department of Justice, ruling that defendants in riot cases from 2019 were “wrongfully” acquitted. The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge committed serious mistakes in acquitting the defendants, ordered a retrial of four defendants. The [...]

The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee joined ten government departments on Saturday to issue a notice titled “Notice of Special Cleaning and Correction of Forum Activities” to action an overhaul the internet and eliminate misinformation and tamps down counterfeit forums. The government stated there are too many organizations in the [...]

The Hong Kong Police Force released statements on Wednesday and Thursday announcing the arrest of a total of five people for suspected contravention of the National Security Law. The police arrested these men for the suspected contravention of “conspiracy to collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security” under Article [...]

The Administrative Tribunal of Paris handed down a judgment on Friday to overturn a decision of the French police to ban the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from holding demonstrations. The PMOI planned to have a rally on July 1 to demand the dismissal of the Mullah’s regime aiming to “support the uprising of the [...]

Canadian unionised port workers in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia went on strike on Thursday. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) are currently undergoing negotiations on behalf of the workers with the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA). The Collective Agreement which has governed the relationship between the port workers and their [...]

Google stated on Thursday that it would remove Canadian news links from its search engine, news and discover products. Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker claimed that the Canada’s new Online News Act has made offering Google News Showcase Products to Canadian news outlets untenable. In response to the enactment of the law, Google [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal finished hearing submissions from parties on Thursday in a case involving the constitutionality of Hong Kong’s preclusion of same-sex marriage. This is the first time the top Hong Kong court dealing directly with the homosexual couples’ right to marry. The applicant, Jimmy Sham, also happens to be a [...]