The cheater's effort to get the 2020 Census to omit unauthorized immigrants has failed.

He also tried intimidate them (by threatening to deport them) so that they would not respond to the census. I don't know to what extent that may have succeeded.

In Pakistan it is now a crime to criticize the army, which is very politically powerful.

The world is full of threats to freedom of sane speech.

A Thai has been sentenced to 43 years in prison for forwarding audio clips that criticized the monarchy.

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