Climate activist Greta Thunberg was among dozens of people detained Saturday by police in The Hague as they removed protesters who were partially blocking a road in the Dutch city. Thunberg was seen flashing a victory sign as she sat in a bus used by police to take detained demonstrators from the scene of a […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will reach a grim milestone on March 29. That date marks the one-year anniversary of his detention in Russia. Evan is being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison on charges of espionage. Evan, his family, the Wall Street Journal, and the State Department all deny that Evan is a spy. […]
Ksenia Karelina was denied an appeal of charges against her in a Russian court on Thursday. She is a 32-year-old dual U.S.-Russian citizen. The crime Ksenia is accused of committing is treason. The charge was brought against her because she made a small donation – $50 – to a charity that aids Ukraine. She was […]
CARACAS, Venezuela — Human rights organizations in Venezuela on Wednesday demanded the release of a prominent attorney and activist whose detention last week has heightened concerns over the government’s use of repression against real and perceived adversaries. The representatives of several rights groups expressed concern over Rocío San Miguel’s well-being and condemned her inability to […]
More than two dozen people, mostly journalists, were detained Saturday at a protest in central Moscow, as wives and other relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return, according to independent Russian news reports. The relatives gathered to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the […]
Legendary action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger was detained at an airport in Munich, Germany this week for an alleged tax problem, according to reports from NBC News. Guess that means his trip was prematurely “terminated,” wink, wink. Oh man, there are about a million-and-a-half of these lame dad jokes I can make about Arnold. […]
He’ll be back. Back in the headlines, that is, after Arnold Schwarzenegger was stopped at Germany’s Munich airport over a criminal tax issue. “Criminal tax proceedings have been initiated by us,” Munich customs office spokesman Thomas Meister told RTL, a broadcaster in Germany cited by NBC News. “This will then be processed by our criminal […]
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