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A well-known Iranian regime critic and political scientist, Sadegh Zibakalam, is beginning a jail term in Tehran's Evin prison, media reports said on Sunday. According to the judiciary's Mizan website, the 75-year-old academic and university professor faced three charges, including spreading unproven information on social media and propaganda against the Islamic system. Zibakalam was convicted on all counts and jailed for 18, 12 and 6 months, respectively. According to Mizan, he must first serve the 18-month sentence at the Evin facility, which has a reputation for human rights abuses and mist...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated again on Saturday evening in the Georgian capital Tbilisi against a planned law to control foreign influence. They were expressing their displeasure at the plans of their pro-Moscow government. In the eyes of the demonstrators, the law jeopardizes their country's European Union prospects. In addition to Georgian flags, many therefore also waved EU flags once again. According to media reports, the protests against the controversial "Russian law" initially took place without any major incidents. Thousands of people wanted to form a vigil in front of the p...
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Germany's justice minister will be stuck in Italy for several hours longer than planned after technical issues with the German government aircraft meant to ferry him home. Marco Buschmann and his entourage had planned on leaving Venice around midday on Friday. He was in the Italian city for a meeting of justice ministers from the G7 group of wealthy democratic countries. The aircraft, a Bombardier Global 5000 jet, had to return to its parking position shortly before the planned take-off. The return journey to Germany is now expected to take place in the early evening on a replacement aircraft ...
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Harsher penalties will not be enough to curb the increasing aggression against politicians, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has said. "The attempt to solve the social problem of a general brutalization of political debate with criminal law alone will fail," the politician from the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) told dpa. Nevertheless, he was prepared to look at proposals from the federal states on criminal law. The federal and state interior ministers had met for a video conference on Tuesday following the brutal attack on a Social Democratic (SPD) member of European Parliament from...
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The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has described the proposal to punish attacks on politicians more severely as "nonsense." "A politician is no better than a normal worker or business owner," Tino Chrupalla said during an appearance on Berlin public radio on Friday. At the same time, the AfD co-chairman emphasized that violence should never be a means of political debate: "It is simply condemnable when people are attacked - regardless of their views or party affiliation." The German government is weighing new penalties for attacks on politicians and campaign wor...
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A left-wing activist group, the Stuttgart Anti-Fascist Action Alliance, claimed responsibility for a protest outside the state parliament in Stuttgart on Thursday during which two far-right lawmakers were slightly injured in a scuffle. The group, which is part of the left-wing Antifa movement, acknowledged that their members had "disturbed" a campaign stand set up by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a post to the group's website on Friday. The Antifa activists also wrote in a statement on Friday that they had been physically harassed by both security staff and AfD members of parl...
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Harsher penalties will not be enough to curb the increasing aggression against politicians, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has said. "The attempt to solve the social problem of a general brutalization of political debate with criminal law alone will fail," the politician from the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) told dpa. Nevertheless, he was prepared to look at proposals from the federal states on criminal law. The federal and state interior ministers had met for a video conference on Tuesday following the brutal attack the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) leading candidate for the E...
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Harsher penalties will not be enough to curb the increasing aggression against politicians, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has said. "The attempt to solve the social problem of a general brutalization of political debate with criminal law alone will fail," the politician from the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) told dpa. Nevertheless, he was prepared to look at proposals from the federal states on criminal law. The federal and state interior ministers had met for a video conference on Tuesday following the brutal attack the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) leading candidate for the E...
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Two lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were attacked and injured in front of the state parliament in Stuttgart before a celebratory event to mark the 75th anniversary of Germany's constitution, police said on Thursday. Suspected opponents of the party blocked the information stand of the AfD's state parliamentary faction on Wednesday afternoon on the square in front of the city's opera house and held up banners. Members of the parliamentary group were verbally and physically "attacked," according to police. Two members of parliament suffered slight injuries. The p...
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Further attacks on politicians in Germany have rattled the country and prompted renewed outrage from leaders, after Berlin's former mayor was assaulted in a library. Franziska Giffey, the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) in Berlin who currently serves as the city's economy minister, was treated in hospital for slight injuries after being hit over the head with a heavy bag on Tuesday afternoon. In a separate attack on Tuesday night, a Green Party council candidate was assaulted and spat on by two assailants while putting up campaign posters in Dresden. Those assaults are the latest in a str...
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