Tag: freedom
Missak and Mélinée Manouchian at the Pantheon: they are “freedom fighters who are honored”
Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée enter the Pantheon on February 21, 2024. A ceremony which takes place 80 years after the execution of Missak and that of his fellow…
Picture yourself with a favorite banned book during Freedom to Read Week
The public is invited to celebrate Freedom to Read Week at Brant library branches by taking a mugshot selfie with your favorite banned or challenged book. Article content Freedom to…
Ukraine: Maidan, ten years later, “represents this fight for freedom”
February 18, 2014 – February 18, 2024, 10 years ago to the day since the Dignity Revolution, known as the Maidan Revolution, began in Ukraine. What lessons can we learn…
Alexei Navalny: Freedom murdered
The death of the Russian opposition figure in the Kharp penitentiary has rightly aroused a wave of indignation. But who benefits from the crime? Lawyer, politician, anti-corruption activist and Russian…
ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra regains freedom after pardon
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on the morning of Sunday February 18. This comes six months after his return from 15 years of voluntary exile. His Pheu…
Jimmy Lai, the billionaire who sacrificed his freedom – L’Express
On this early gray and cold morning of December 18, an armored van escorted by an impressive procession heads towards the West Kowloon courthouse, a modern building protected by dozens…
In Sète, the Miam accumulates works in complete freedom and modesty – L’Express
Hervé Di Rosa likes to hammer home this: “There is no such thing as modest work, there are only modest collections.” A demonstration is made at the International Museum of…
France gags freedom of information
By extending the statute of limitations for insulting and defaming elected representatives, the freedom to inform is threatened. Journalists’ unions denounce this unspeakable infringement of press law. Will it be…
BBC: Half a year of war will no longer bring freedom to Russian prisoners – frontline command will last until the end of the war | Foreign countries
Prison soldiers no longer receive full amnesty. Instead, ex-prisoners get a kind of parole, says the BBC. Prison soldiers recruited from Russian prisons will no longer be released after six…
“Attacks on press freedom concern us,” deplores a media official
In Niger, an order from the Ministry of the Interior suspends the activities of the Maison de la Presse and announces that the transitional government set up after the coup…