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Photo Credit: Q Gardrian/Pixabay (Morning Star News) – Authorities in China on Aug. 19 officially “liquidated” a historical house church in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, as part of a crackdown on churches that refuse to join the state-controlled Three-Self Church, rights advocates said. The Church of Abundance, which began about 30 years ago, had been targeted […]
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Russians defy crackdown to find small ways of protesting Ukraine war
July 6th, 2022 
Awake Goy Facing arrest and draconian prison sentences, some Russians are still finding ways to voice their opposition to the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine. Source Views: 0
Austria Makes Skiers Wear Face Masks Outdoors in New COVID Crackdown
January 7th, 2022 Awake Goy According to education officials, “huge numbers” of children, in some cases as many as 95 per cent, are refusing to wear face masks in school or take COVID tests. The government instructed schools to make pupils wear masks in classrooms and common areas after a spike in Omicron cases. However, the move appears to have […]
Palestinians wounded in Israel’s crackdown on weekly West Bank protests
January 1st, 2022 Awake Goy Tens of Palestinians have been wounded on Friday during the Israeli crackdown on weekly protests in several areas across the occupied West Bank, Arabi21 reported. In the village of Beita, located in the outskirts of Nablus, Israeli occupation forces opened fire at Palestinians following the performance of Friday prayer near Subaih Mountain. According to Arabi21, […]
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No Comments »Wet’suwet’en Retake Checkpoint A Month After Police Crackdown
December 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Wet’suwet’en activists after reclaiming Camp Coyote. Gidimt’en Checkpoint / Twitter. Anti-pipeline Indigenous activists, resisting the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline in Wet’suwet’en have retaken a checkpoint in Coyote Camp, a month after violent crackdown by federal police forces. On Saturday, December 19, activists leading the Wet’suwet’en resistance against the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline project […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, checkpoint, crackdown, month, police, retake, suwet No Comments »Governments Want Crackdown on Telegram App Used to Organize Anti-COVID Lockdown Protests
December 16th, 2021 Awake Goy In the past few days, German politicians have declared messaging app Telegram a threat to democracy and a hotbed of radicalization. The latest round of attacks on free communication comes after weeks of protests in Germany against the COVID-19 measures. Protests have been mobilized via Telegram and other online community platforms. Since the beginning of […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: covid, crackdown, governments, lockdown, organize, protests, telegram No Comments »Israel officials co-ordinated with Jewish ultra-nationalists to crackdown on Palestinian protesters, HRW says
December 14th, 2021 Awake Goy A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) into abusive and discriminatory policing found that Israeli officials co-ordinated with far-right Jewish ultra-nationalists during May’s civil unrest in the mixed Jewish and Palestinian city of Lod. Released today, the report found that Israeli law enforcement agencies used excessive force to disperse peaceful protests by Palestinians in Lod […]
Posted in Middle East, News Tags: crackdown, israel, Jewish, nationalists, Officials, ordinated, ultra 1 Comment »World Cup Fans Face Crackdown In Qatar: No Public Drunkenness, PDA, Gay Sex
November 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy It’s going to be an extremely different World Cup for soccer fans next year in Qatar, where public drunkenness will be strictly prohibited, and PDA will be tightly curbed in the Muslim nation. As one critic quipped: “What else is there at the World Cup?” Advertisement Gianni Infantino, head of the soccer governing body FIFA, […]
Sudan: More than 100 protesters detained in latest crackdown
November 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Sudan’s security forces dispersed demonstrators and rounded up more than 100 people on Sunday in the capital of Khartoum, in the latest crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Shops were closed and roadblocks were set up in Khartoum on Sunday, as a two-day civil disobedience effort began against last month’s military takeover. Nationwide anti-coup protests – including […]
Amnesty International Reports Brutal Crackdown by Taliban in Afghanistan
September 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Afghan Christians Fear Violence Due to Taliban’s Interpretation of Sharia 09/23/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a recently released report by Amnesty International documents a broad and brutal crackdown taking place in Afghanistan as the Taliban seek to settle old scores and stamp out any opposition to […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Afghanistan, Amnesty, brutal, crackdown, international, reports, Taliban No Comments »PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor: ‘White Male Conservative Voters’ to Blame For New CDC Crackdown
August 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy By Chris Menahan White male conservatives are the real virus, so says PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor and MSNBC’s Geoff Bennett. From NewsBusters: Appearing on Wednesday’s Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC, PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor declared that “white male conservative voters” and former President Trump are to blame for the CDC’s flip-flopping on their latest […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: alcindor, blame, conservative, crackdown, voters, white, yamiche No Comments »Big Tech Companies Agree To Work Together In Internet Freedom Crackdown
July 27th, 2021 Awake Goy A new initiative launched by cybersecurity experts encourages companies to create a system that makes it easier for people to be reported to their employers for “online abuse.” The new program is called Respect in Security and was created by Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson and Red Goat Cyber Security’s Lisa Forte. According to Forte, the […]
What’s it like to be LGBT in Hungary amid Orban’s rights crackdown?
July 24th, 2021 Awake Goy On Wednesday, July 7, a widely-contested new law came into force in Hungary. Overnight, it became an offence to “promote” sexual and gender differences to children, in educational settings, films or adverts. The law’s opacity means it can be applied in a welter of different contexts. It didn’t occur in a vacuum but came against […]
Belarus expands crackdown on independent media
July 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Belarusian authorities on Friday widened their crackdown on independent media, raiding media offices and journalists’ homes across the ex-Soviet nation. The Belarusian Association of Journalists said the authorities searched apartments and offices of at least 21 journalists in the capital of Minsk and cities of Brest, Gomel, Grodno and Pinsk. “The authorities are using an […]
Europol announces 13 arrests in police crackdown on Romania-Spain sex trafficking gang
July 8th, 2021 Awake Goy A network of human traffickers who lured victims into prostitution using the so-called ‘lover boy’ method has been broken up by Spanish and Romanian police. Thirteen people were arrested and 16 buildings raided in two crackdowns by the Policía Nacional and Poliția Română, which took place in Spain in February and Romania in June 2021. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: announces, arrests, crackdown, europol, police, Romania, Spain No Comments »Despite PA crackdown, Palestinians continue protests over killing of Nizar Banat
July 6th, 2021 Awake Goy In the early morning hours of June 24th, Palestinian Authority security forces raided the home of prominent Palestinian activist and dissident Nizar Banat. His family says he was pepper sprayed and brutally beaten with metal clubs and rifle butts before he was taken into custody. Just a few hours later, he was pronounced dead. The […]
Posted in News Tags: continue, crackdown, despite, killing, nizar, Palestinians, protests No Comments »David Barton Praises Hungary’s Latest Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown
June 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy ALL donations 3X-MATCHED by 12/31 to save our democracy! Every day, the reporters and researchers of Right Wing Watch expose the hateful words and deeds of right-wing leaders and the far-right players who fueled Trump’s rise to power and aim to keep him there. Our work is read daily and used by major media outlets, […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: barton, crackdown, David, Hungary, latest, lgbtq, praises No Comments »Crackdown on Academic Freedom: Prof Under Attack for Asking Students to Think Independently
June 8th, 2021 Awake Goy A professor at New York University, Mark Crispin Miller, is suing 19 colleagues for libel after they signed a letter to the school dean demanding a “review” of his conduct because he urged students to look into the scientific rationale for the mask mandates and to assess the truthfulness of the media drive to promote […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: academic, asking, attack, crackdown, Freedom, students, under No Comments »Israel’s Crackdown on Journalists Slammed by Major International Press Association
June 8th, 2021 Awake Goy (MEMO) Israel’s latest crackdown on journalists has been condemned by the Foreign Press Association (FPA) following a number of high-profile arrests over the weekend. The international body, whose members include major news outlets including Reuters and the New York Times, called on Israel to stop its threat and intimidation of journalists. “We call upon the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: crackdown, international, israel, journalists, Major, press, slammed No Comments »‘Hello! This is Israeli intelligence’: The text message igniting fears of a crackdown when Gaza war ends
May 20th, 2021 Awake Goy A text message from a local number flashed up on Omar’s* phone claiming to be Israeli intelligence informing him he would soon be arrested. The young Palestinian had been asked to volunteer as a medic at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa compound as larger than normal crowds of worshippers were expected during the holy month of Ramadan. But […]
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