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Mohammad Naeem
Taliban spokesperson, Qatar
"Al-Qaida is not present in Afghanistan, and the Taliban have no relation to [al-Qaida]."
Read more...The Taliban and al-Qaida, perpetrator of the 9/11 attacks, have a long history, and remnants of al-Qaida are reported to be active in Afghanistan. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“When people entered the Congress after the well-known elections in the U.S., they came with political demands after which more than 100 criminal cases had been launched against them. Judging by the charges against them, they are facing long term imprisonment – from 15 to 20-25 years and maybe longer.”
Read more...Capitol rioters face criminal charges for violent attacks on police, vandalizing offices and theft – not their political views. -
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Nicaragua Interior Ministry
“[Foreign aid and rights groups] have failed to comply with their obligations under the laws that regulate non-profit organizations.”
Read more...Ahead of elections, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega has jailed opponents and raided newspapers. Now, he’s targeted outside democracy and humanitarian groups. -
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Chin Malin
Ministry of Justice spokesman
“The legal procedures brought against [Rong Chhun] were not due to his exercise of freedom of speech but because he had committed a crime.”
Read more...Suppression of dissent is rising in Hun Sen’s Cambodia. For activist Rong Chhun, the price was two years in prison. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
"The withdrawal of these troops must necessarily take place and this process has to be organized step by step … This is the main thing, and not the attempts to divert the discussion into a talk about the legitimate and illegitimate forces there."
Read more...Lavrov omits mention of Russian involvement in Libya, despite the Russian mercenaries stationed there to help the Libyan National Army. -
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Zabihullah Mujahid
Taliban spokesperson
“We had brought narcotics content production to zero in 2001, but our country was unfortunately occupied by then, and the way was paved for reproduction of narcotics even at the level of the government.”
Read more...The Taliban collect taxes and protection money from the world’s biggest narcotic trafficking network, rooted in Afghanistan’s poppy fields. -
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Alexander Lukashenko
President of Belarus
“Starting from Belavia, when those crazy people [abroad] started to stifle our company. Now it is clear why.”
Read more...In fact, the EU banned Belavia because Belarus forced an Irish plane to land in Minsk to arrest an opposition journalist. -
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Zabihullah Mujahid
Taliban spokesman
“The Islamic Emirate is committed to the rights of women within the framework of Sharia. Our sisters, our men have the same rights.”
Read more...New allegations of abuse against women have emerged as the Taliban prepare to reinstate their strict version of Islamic law in Afghanistan. -
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CCTV
Chinese State News
“During (the Military World Games 2019), five U.S. military contestants developed symptoms of infectious diseases such as fever, coughing and diarrhea and were rushed to Jinyintan Hospital, a famous infectious disease hospital in Wuhan.”
Read more...Even China’s media and a respected Chinese health official have rejected the conspiracy theory that U.S. troops brought the virus behind COVID-19 to Wuhan. -
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Nicolas Maduro
Venezuelan president
“[I]n 1999, with the swearing-in of Commander Chavez, the road to the profound transformation of the Homeland was illuminated. Historic moment for the beginning of the leading democracy that today we continue to deepen together with the people.”
Read more...Under Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela transitioned into autocracy. -
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Mateusz Morawiecki
Prime Minister of Poland
“We do not have any intentions regarding a specific TV channel. It is just about tightening the regulations, so that there is no situation in which companies from outside the European Union would buy media in Poland.”
Source: Reuters, August 10, 2021Read more...Critics say the proposed law targets U.S.-owned TVN24, which has aggressively covered Morawiecki’s right-wing government. -
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China Daily
Chinese Communist Party newspaper
“The country where the virus was first identified. That country is the virus maker.”
Read more...The Soviets first concocted a propaganda myth that AIDS was a U.S. bioweapon. Now China connects it to COVID-19.
