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Xiaolei Wu, a music student in Boston, is jailed after being found guilty of harassing a pro-democracy activist. A Chinese music student has been jailed for nine months in the United States after threatening to cut off the hands of a fellow student at a prestigious music institute in Boston after she posted pro-democracy fliers […]
A man charged with participating in a plot hatched in Iran to assassinate Masih Alinejad, an American human rights activist and a sharp critic of Iran’s repression of women, has been extradited to the United States, American authorities said on Wednesday. The man, Polad Omarov, 39, was turned over to representatives of the U.S. government […]
By Phil McCausland BBC News, New York 29 November 2023, 15:36 GMT Updated 8 minutes ago Image source, US Department of Justice Image caption, A photograph from the indictment showing the alleged first payment for the murder-for-hire plot The US has said it foiled an alleged plot to assassinate an American citizen in New York […]
When Cher Scarlett began speaking up about labor issues at Apple Inc., she knew she was at risk of losing her software engineering job, but was confident she could find another. Yet two years after her departure from the iPhone maker, Scarlett says she has struggled to secure employment, lending credence to fears among many […]
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 23 (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid and gay activist Simon Nkoli, who organised Africa’s first Pride march in 1990, died 25 years ago but a group of artists inspired by him are determined to keep his legacy alive in an opera celebrating his life. “Vogue Opera” – a mix of classical music, hip-hop, […]
Zachary Clary Historian, Vanderbilt University The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom “ended for me when we had finally made sure we had not left one piece of paper, not a cup, nothing,” reflected civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in a 1979 interview. The speeches were over. The microphone was silent. The . . […]
A Black Lives Matter activist has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after she was found guilty of funneling tens of thousands in fundraising donations from her organization into her personal bank account, leading to her living an expensive lifestyle, according to reports. The BBC reported that 23-year-old Xahra Saleem
Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King has been branded a liar by the family of two American hostages who he claims he ‘worked frantically behind the scenes’ to free from Hamas.
By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com 02:06 23 Oct 2023, updated 02:53 23 Oct 2023 Natalie Raanan, 17, and her mother Judith Raanan, 59, arrived in Israel on Friday King posted on Instagram last week claiming that he had helped free the women
Editor’s Note: Video by Muhammad Darwish and Alessia Tinti A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories.