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Belta
Belarusian state news agency
“As it has been reported, the coaching staff of the national athletics team decided to withdraw Krystsina Tsimanouskaya from the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in connection with her emotional and psychological state.”
Read more...Tsimanouskaya said Belarusian Olympic team officials attempted to force her onto a flight to Belarus. She refused and has been offered asylum in Poland. -
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Hasan Rouhani
Outgoing Iran president
“Civil protest is one of the fundamental rights of all members of the (Iran) nation.”
Read more...Iran’s outgoing president claims that protest is a guaranteed right for people in Iran, but reports from Khuzestan province about a government crackdown on protesters make his claim false. -
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Zhao Lijian
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“The reporting environment for foreign correspondents in China is open and free. Communication channels between foreign journalists in China and competent Chinese authorities are open and unfettered.”
Read more...In fact, China has encouraged intimidation of foreign journalists, weaponized news media visas and ratcheted up surveillance. -
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TASS
Russian state owned news agency
“Russian tennis star Medvedev asked the International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Wednesday to strip the accreditation of a Chilean journalist, who claimed that Team ROC [Russian Olympic Committee] ‘cheated’ on its uniforms at the Olympics in Tokyo.”
Read more...In fact, the Chilean journalist asked if ROC athletes felt the “stigma of cheaters” because of Russia’s past doping. He said nothing about uniforms. -
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Indian Income Tax Department
“Certain allegations have appeared in some sections of media that ITDept officials were suggesting changes in stories … These allegations are absolutely false and are categorically denied by ITDept.”
Read more...India’s central government agencies have a history of raiding media outlets to intimidate journalists – like the latest strike against a leading Hindi paper. -
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Morgan Artyukhina
Writer/news editor, Sputnik, Washington, D.C.
“[T]he U.S. has erroneously claimed that China is imposing its will on the other countries.”
Read more...China is clearly flouting international law by drawing its own maritime boundaries and using military might to encroach in the South China Sea. -
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SAFER Agreement Committee (SAC)
“The UN presented a work plan that violates the urgent repair and evaluation agreement on Safer tanker.”
Read more...It’s the Houthis, not the United Nations, that have kept inspectors off an ailing, abandoned tanker with enough oil for four Exxon Valdez-size spills. -
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Ikenna Emewu
Editor-in-chief, Africa China Economy Magazine
“Xi's Tibet visit endorses Chinese pluralism, religious rights.”
Read more...Under Xi’s tenure, screws tightened further on Tibetan Buddhists’ religious freedoms. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“This newly revealed fact in the case of the so-called ‘Navalny poisoning’ should be the subject of the most thorough study.”
Read more...The explosive “fact” was a mistaken date – later corrected – in a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. -
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NSO Group Technologies
Israeli software firm
“We can confirm that our technology was not used to listen, monitor, track, or collect information regarding him (Jamal Khashoggi) or his family members mentioned in your inquiry.”
Read more...The Pegasus Project consortium reported evidence of spy software targeting their phones and those of journalists, human rights advocates and politicians. -
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Zeng Yixin
Deputy director of China's National Health Commission
“[Th]e [Wuhan Institute of Virology] has no man-made viruses and has never conducted gain-of-function researches.”
Read more...Call it what you want, but coronaviruses were modified at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in experimental research. -
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Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria
“The constitution is a priority that cannot be a subject for negotiations nor bargaining, because it is the homeland’s title and the people’s decision.”
Read more...Rather than give the Syrian people a voice, Assad has been gumming up United Nations-backed talks to write a new constitution and form a post-war government.
