White House spokesman says US President Joe Biden supports freedom of expression on campuses(AFP) PRESIDENT Joe Biden supports freedom of expression on United States (US) campuses, the White House said on Wednesday, as a growing number of students protested Israel’s war on Gaza. The ongoing protests at Columbia University in New York have sparked huge … Read more
The Russian justice system this Tuesday sentenced veteran activist Oleg Orlov, leader of the human rights organization Memorial, to two and a half years in prison for an opinion column titled They wanted fascism and they had it. After hearing the ruling, law enforcement officers handcuffed Orlov, 70, and put him in a police van … Read more
TRIBUNE Article reserved for subscribers Is naming Sylvain Tesson godfather of the Spring of Poets 2024 an innocent gesture? The writer Claro sees it as a tactic: drop something very slippery, if possible flammable, and let the temperature rise to allow a certain press to cry for censorship. Should we name the wandering writer, close … Read more
When the Saudi Arabian Tennis Federation announced that its new ambassador would be Rafael Nadal, he declared the following about the country: “Wherever you look, you can see growth and development there.” Meanwhile, Abdullah al Derazi and Jalal Labbad, aged 27 and 21, have been in prison for years, awaiting their respective death sentences. The … Read more
2023-05-19 05:53:19 He had remained discreet since his attack. For the first time since a knife attack in the United States in August which almost cost him his life, the British writer Salman Rushdie reappeared, Thursday, May 18, in public in New York during a gala of an organization for the defense of writers. The … Read more
Published on : 10/02/2023 – 16:27 In a climate of diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Paris, the mission of Morocco’s ambassador to France has ended without a successor being appointed, local media announced on Friday. The latter specify that the date of the end of the mission coincides with the day when the European Parliament … Read more
When the revolution breaks out in Sudan in 2019, paintings appear to praise democracy and freedom. They marked the younger generation after decades of censorship under Omar al-Bashir. And the artists have remained mobilized to express their thirst for freedom after the October 2021 coup. They fight peacefully, between demonstrations in the streets of Khartoum … Read more
On Friday morning, we witnessed a piece of news that shocked many of us. Seeing and listening on radio and television to the assassination attempt suffered 200 meters from his home by the journalist, Ciro Gómez Leyva, narrated by himself, live from his morning newscast, reminds us that, in this country, freedom Expression is a … Read more