Day: April 21, 2017

An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide is the title of an essay by Alice Cowley, Doctoral Candidate – Queen Mary University of London, and Maung Zarni, Non-Resident Fellow – Sleuk Rith Institute – Permanent Documentation Centre (of Genocide) in Cambodia. Here is an extract (read the full essay here): Following hundreds of allegations…

Forum 18 reports that Russia’s Supreme Court in Moscow yesterday declared the Jehovah’s Witness national headquarters in St Petersburg and all 395 local organisations “extremist”, banned all their activity immediately, and ordered their property seized by the state. Judge Yury Ivanenko took just over two minutes to read out his decision after nearly 30 hours of hearings…