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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
“They are mercenaries and not prisoners of war.”
Read more...Foreign troops who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine are entitled to POW rights under the Geneva Conventions. -
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Kais Saied
President of Tunisia
“[President Kais Saied] emphasized the independence of the judiciary and guaranteeing freedoms and rights.”
Read more...Human rights watchdogs say Tunisian President Kais Saied is reshaping laws to consolidate one-man rule. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“[T]he current situation with Ukraine grain has nothing to do with the food crisis.”
Read more...While numerous factors are driving food prices and insecurity, Russia’s war is making matters worse. -
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Zhao Lijian
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
“[T]he renovation of the base serves solely to strengthen the Cambodian naval capacities to protect its maritime integrity and combat maritime crimes.”
Read more...A Beijing official confirmed to The Washington Post that “a portion of” the upgraded Ream Naval Base would be used by Chinese military. -
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Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry
“Every citizen has the right to equal protection of the law and to the protection of his or her rights and fundamental freedoms.”
Read more...The military’s seizure of power has brought tribunals, a surge in death sentences and a lack of due process. -
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Supreme Leader
“The enemy has counted on public protests to put people against the Islamic Republic, and surely the enemy’s forecast is wrong like its many other ones.”
Read more...Blaming 'enemies' for Iran's woes is Khamenei's way to divert attention from real problems that sparked protests. -
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Dmitry Peskov
spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin
“Certainly, Russia will not sell anything without a profit. The demand may fall in one place and rise elsewhere.”
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Vasili Nebenzya
Russian ambassador to the United Nations
“In turn, humane treatment of prisoners of war is the norm for the Russian armed forces.”
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Xi Jinping
president of China
“[President Xi Jinping] added that the [new electoral] system is a political and democratic system that is in line with the ‘one country, two systems’ principle…”
Read more...In fact, Beijing has drastically rolled back the freedoms and rights it originally promised Hong Kongers within the “one country, two systems” framework. -
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Saeed Khatibzadeh
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman
“Our ties must not be hampered by deeply shortsighted miscalculations, including highway robbery on the command of a 3rd party.”
Read more...There was no ‘robbery.’ Under U.S. sanctions, Greece seized a Russian-Iranian flagged tanker holding Iranian oil and managed by a Russian entity. -
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Sputnik News
Russian state broadcaster
“According to investigators, hundreds of medical files found at the Red Cross base contain information on children’s healthy organs, with no indication of any illnesses.”
Read more...Russia has repeatedly pushed misleading claims about organ harvesting since first invading Ukraine in 2014. -
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Mikhail Galuzin
Russian ambassador to Japan
“Organizers may know that we must eradicate the Nazism promoted by Western groups in Ukraine. Forming an alliance with this Nazism was one of the causes of the catastrophe that struck Japan as a whole in 1945.”
Read more...The slam on Japan came after Russian President Vladimir Putin was denied an invite to this year’s Hiroshima remembrance.
