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Australian law invalidated

samedi 4 novembre 2023 à 05:04

An Australian court has invalidated the law that authorized a minister to cancel the citizenship of people convicted of terrorism.

A free country can punish people for crimes, but exile should never be used as a punishment.

The right-wing law previously invalidated, that allowed cancellation of citizenship for a dual citizen based purely on suspicion, was even more unjust than this one. It was unacceptable in two different ways: punishment using exile, and punishment without proving a crime.

Protest musicians convicted in Belarus

samedi 4 novembre 2023 à 05:04

Belarus has convicted three protest musicians of various crimes including "discrediting Belarus" and "insulting the president". What truly discredits Belarus is declaring those things to be crimes.

Collapse of Earth's ecosystems

samedi 4 novembre 2023 à 05:04

Mass extinctions come from collapse of Earth's ecosystems and geological systems. They shift into a new configuration in which most species don't fit, and the result is global disaster.

The accelerated heating and local disasters we have recently seen suggest we are coming closer to such a global disaster. Enormous systems, including the Arctic sea ice, the circulation of the Southern Ocean, and rainfall in the Amazon Forest, are showing large changes.

Earth's governments, most of them in thrall to selfish billionaires, have been nearly useless for trying to save Earth's life.

Putin forces soldiers arrested and charged

samedi 4 novembre 2023 à 05:04

Russia has arrested some Putin forces soldiers and charged them with murdering a Ukrainian family in the occupied territory.

This does not come close to showing that Putin will apply proper standards of justice to the Putin forces, but at least it is a step in that direction.

Prosecutions for protesting for democracy

samedi 4 novembre 2023 à 05:04

China has prosecuted 3000 people for protesting for democracy in Hong Kong.