Two years ago, tens of thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest against the government. Security forces responded with tear gas and beatings, and thousands of people were arrested.
The reelection of Communist China to the U.N. Human Rights Council is a travesty. It mocks the U.N.’s boast that the council is the world’s “premier” human rights agency and ignores the record of one of the worst offenders of human rights in the world.
If the administration is seriously committed to combating the “extraordinary threat” of politically motivated hostage-taking, it should declare Fogel wrongfully detained and commit appropriate resources to securing his release from a potential death sentence.
The unexpected pardon last week of two leading politicians convicted earlier on charges of corruption has brought renewed focus on Nigeria’s flailing anticorruption drive.
Following a meeting of the country’s Council of State, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, governors respectively of the central and northeastern states of Plateau and Taraba from 1997 to 2007 were pardoned along with 157 other convicts.