The Putin government goes after a left-wing group known as Set, which is Russian for “Network.” A court in Penza has sentenced the seven members of Set to prison terms between six and 18 years, according to Mediazona. The activists’ supporters chanted “freedom to political prisoners” in the courtroom after the judge read out the...
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Egypt Activist Faces Charges of ‘Harming National Security’
In Egypt the security forces of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are cracking down on dissent. The latest victim is Patrick Zaky, a graduate student and human rights activist. Zaky appeared before the public prosecutor on Saturday in his hometown of Mansoura, 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of Cairo in the Delta region, security and judicial...
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Four Members of Chinese Military Charged With 2017 Hack at Equifax
From The Washington Post: In a nine-count indictment filed in federal court in Atlanta, federal prosecutors alleged that four members of the People’s Liberation Army hacked into Equifax’s systems, stealing the personal data as well as company trade secrets. In a statement announcing the case, Attorney General William P. Barr called their efforts “a deliberate...
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Sen. Mark Warner Wants to Fund Huawei Competitors
Huawei or the highway? As that question divides the U.S. and U.K. intelligence communities, Sen. Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has a solution to wean the United States from reliance on the Chinese telecom giant. The issue is whether Western governments can use Huawei’s technology to build their 5G networks, which...
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Haspel and Brennan Disagree on Assassinating Soleimani
Two CIA directors have two very different views about the legality of the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last month. In a detailed look at how U.S. policymakers have handled the question of assassinating enemies, the The New Yorker reports the views of current CIA director Gina Haspel. Intelligence officials told Trump that...