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Daily Archives: 12. Juni 2022
Législatives : la NUPES devient la première force politique du pays
Le 1er tour des élections législatives acte un bouleversement de notre vie politique. À 26%, la NUPES est désormais la première force politique du pays. L’alliance historique de la gauche, composée de LFI, du PS, du PCF, de EELV et de Génération.s laisse derrière elle le bloc libéral et le bloc d’extrême-droite. La NUPES est présente au second tour dans plus de 500 circonscriptions.
As France returns to the polls, can Mélenchon’s left deprive Macron of a majority?
“Jean-Luc Mélenchon pulled off an extraordinary PR coup,” said Pascal Perrineau, a professor of political science at Sciences-Po Paris. “Asking the French to elect him prime minister might sound absurd, but it was an extremely shrewd strategy. It allowed him to both supplant Le Pen as Macron’s chief opponent and cast himself as the pillar of a revamped left.”
The PR stunt was soon followed by another tour de force, which even critics have hailed as a masterstroke. In the days following Macron’s re-election, Mélenchon and his team engineered what many had come to see as an impossible feat: a broad alliance of France’s deeply fractured left, united around a common policy platform and fielding a single candidate in each of France’s 577 constituencies.
Former British soldier Jordan Gatley ‘shot and killed’ while fighting Russians on the frontline in Ukraine
Jordan Gatley left the British Army in March and flew out to Ukraine to help at the beginning of the invasion “after careful consideration”, wrote his father Dean Gatley in an emotional tribute on Facebook.
According to the post, Jordan was killed amid intense fighting in the city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. The family received the news on Friday.
His father confirmed “the devastating news that our son, Jordan, has been shot and killed in the city of Severodonetsk, Ukraine.”
Russia-Ukraine war: fierce fighting in Sievierodonetsk as Russia seizes territory and prepares to send more troops – live
Fierce fighting has continued in the strategic city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, where Russian shelling caused a fire at a chemical plant in which hundreds of civilians are believed to have taken shelter during some of the most intense bombardment of the war.
The governor of Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said in an interview with local television that the Azot chemical plant remained under Ukrainian control, adding that fighting was under way on Sunday on the “outskirts of the city, in the streets directly near the plant”.
It is too late to find understanding with Russia – Zelensky
„We respect international law, we respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of each state. But please do not forget that the war is being waged on our soil. This is a war on our land. Therefore, we put pressure on Russia, on our land. There is no longer any need to reassure the military and political leadership of the Russian Federation. It is too late. We needed preventive sanctions, when we had to talk to them on a daily basis, implement specific financial and economic sanctions before a full-scale invasion,“ he said on Saturday, speaking at the 19th Asian Shangri-La Dialogue Security Summit.
„Now there is no gray area. If you are for peace now, then you support Ukraine, if you support this particular war, then you find mutual understanding with Russia. That is all.
Analysten sehen russische Zermürbungstaktik
Nach Ansicht von Analysten setzt Moskau womöglich genau darauf: dass der Schock über den Krieg nachlässt und das Interesse erlahmt. Denn je länger sich der Konflikt hinzieht und festfährt, desto höher ist demnach aus russischer Sicht die Chance, die Ukraine zu einer Einigung zu zwingen.
Jeder Kriegsmonat kostet die Ukraine laut der Denkfabrik Penta Center umgerechnet 4,7 Milliarden Euro. Daher sei das Land auf den Rückhalt der westlichen Staaten angewiesen. Für einen Sieg brauche es nicht nur modernere Waffen, sondern auch die westliche Entschlossenheit, den wirtschaftlichen Druck auf Russland aufrechtzuerhalten, um Moskau zu schwächen.
Kollege @kaibiermann hat da einen wichtigen Punkt: Wenn die Freiwillig Wehrdienst Leistenden (FWDL) der #Bundeswehr ein Mehrfaches der freiwillig Dienst Leistenden im sozialen Bereich kassieren, ist das Gerede von einer #Dienstpflicht schlicht eine Frechheit.
(Achtung, Kommentar) Der Staat bekommt dank #FSJ derzeit jedes Jahr 50.000 soziale Hilfskräfte – umsonst. Bundespräsident #Steinmeier will aber noch viel mehr rekrutieren, mit einem #Pflichtdienst. Statt diesen Dinest zu vergüten. Eine zynische Freiheit:
Mike Pompeo summoned by court to explain alleged US government plot to assassinate Julian Assange, say Spanish media reports
Spanish National High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz summoned Pompeo and former US counterintelligence official William Evanina as witnesses to explain the alleged assassination plot and whether they received information through the security firm.
Evanina allegedly previously confessed to having access to security camera footage and audio recordings from inside the Ecuadorian Embassy, Assange‘s lawyers claimed in letters seen by Spanish outlet The Objective.
Julian Assange‘s wife Stella Moris reveals how they raise children together while he is in jail waiting an extradition decision By Stella Moris
We don‘t know how long our children have left with their father. We don‘t know if we can visit him or even talk to him on the phone. If the extradition goes ahead, US authorities retain the right to put Julian in conditions so cruel that no one in his position is likely to survive.
It is impossible for Julian and me to escape a feeling that he is on death row. Our weekly visits may be the only time we have left together. But for how much longer? A few months more, a few weeks, a few days and then only a few hours? I fear in the end we will count the minutes and the seconds…
Journalists’ Associations and Palestinian Rights Group to submit new complaint to International Criminal Court regarding killing of Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and shooting of Ali Samoudi
(26.05.2022)
The Group’s April 2022 complaint details the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists on behalf of four named victims – Ahmed Abu Hussein, Yaser Murtaja, Muath Amarneh and Nedal Eshtayeh – who were also killed or maimed by Israeli snipers while covering demonstrations in Gaza. All were wearing clearly marked PRESS vests at the time they were shot. The complaint also details the targeting of media infrastructure including the bombing of the Al-Shorouk and Al-Jawhara Towers in Gaza City in May 2021.
The full Press Release is available here.
Jennifer Robinson and Tatyana Eatwell act as Legal Counsel for the group.
In 2016, I took legal action against the UK with @privacyint over surveillance & information sharing with the US – given my work as lawyer for #Assange & @wikileaks UK admits violation of Art 8 & Art 10 (confidential journalistic material)
(09.06.2022)
Robinson v UK
Julian Assange‘s Australian lawyer who counts Amal Clooney and Amber Heard as friends says she has reached settlement with government ‚over breach of her human rights after it admitted she was likely put under covert surveillance‘
She said: ‚The UK Government has now admitted that its surveillance and information-sharing arrangements with the US violated my rights. That includes in relation to the protection of confidential journalistic material.
‚This follows a pattern of unlawful spying on Julian Assange and his legal team, and it raises grave concerns about government interference with journalistic material and privilege.
‚It also raises serious questions about what information the UK and US governments have been sharing about Mr Assange‘s case against extradition to the US.‘
UK admits to unlawfully spying on Julian Assange‘s lawyer in settlement on Thursday at the European Court of Human Rights
Suche nach britischem Journalisten: „Offenbar menschliches Gewebe gefunden“
Angehörige des festgenommenen Verdächtigen warfen der Polizei Folter vor. Polizisten hätten Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira geschlagen, ihn mit Pfefferspray traktiert, seinen Kopf unter Wasser gedrückt und seien ihm auf die Beine getreten, sagte dessen Bruder Osnei der Nachrichtenagentur AP. Sie hätten ihn auch unter Drogen gesetzt. „Sie wollten, dass er gesteht, aber er ist unschuldig“, sagte Osenei da Costa de Oliveira, der seinen Bruder im Gefängnis besucht hatte.
Die lokalen Sicherheitsbehörden wollten sich nicht äußern, weil der Fall von der Bundespolizei untersucht werde. Die Bundespolizei reagierte nicht auf Anfragen zu den Vorwürfen.