The Daily Populous

“All states, including China, have unequivocally accepted that slavery and racial discrimination, torture and genocide are prohibited,” it said.

The BHRC briefing paper, written by some of Britain’s leading human rights barristers, underlines a growing push for concrete action against China’s crackdown in Xinjiang.

China is a party to several international human rights and criminal law treaties prevention discrimination, genocide, torture and slavery. »

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is urging state governments to impose price caps on prison phone calls, three years after Pai helped kill Obama-era FCC rules that limited the price of such calls.

Shortly after President Trump appointed Pai to replace Wheeler in early 2017, Pai instructed FCC lawyers to drop the commission's court defense of a cap on intrastate calling rates.

That helped lead to a June 2017 court victory for prison phone company Global Tel*Link in its lawsuit against the intrastate cap. »

Twitter is removing thousands of accounts and tweets that support the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory from its platform, citing the movement as "coordinated harmful activity" that leads to harassment and other harms.

"In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called 'QAnon' activity across the service.".

The FBI last year warned that QAnon and other "anti-government, identity-based, and fringe political conspiracy theories" posed a concrete threat to domestic safety. »

True to his larger-than-life fortitude, Hemingway seemed to court death wherever he went — and to do so with vigorous good humor.

During World War I, Hemingway served on the Italian front lines as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross.

He emerged with 237 bits of shrapnel (by his own count), an aluminum kneecap, and two Italian decorations.”. »