1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
"When I look within, I only see that thin man who miraculously withstood fifty lashes, while a group of people celebrated his pain, repeatedly chanting Allahu Akbar. All for… More
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A French scientist who tweeted a "Picture of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years away" as "taken by the James Webb Space Telescope," now admits the image was a close-up of a slice of chorizo against a black background. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/europe/scientist-space-image-chorizo-intl-scli-scn/index.html
Journalists in Cambodia are facing increasing threats and being prevented from doing their jobs amid growing restrictions on press freedom and civic and political rights, the U.N human rights office there said this week. https://bit.ly/3JEe3qE