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Jun 20, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Putin's Demands
The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentencedAmirhossein Kouhkan, a defense lawyer for the family of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, who was executed during protests over the death of Mahsa Amini that rocked Iran in 2022, to six years in prison. Kouhkan faced several charges, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), including "assembly and collusion" and "propaganda against the regime."Kouhkan's arrest comes after he was summoned by the Karaj intelligence department last year.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Putin's Demands
Canada has listed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity and advised any Canadians in Iran to leave the country.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Reid Standish |Putin's Demands
Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China's resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here's what I'm following right now. Beijing's Own Peace Strategy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy left a peace summit in Switzerland with a new commitment from 80 countries that Ukraine's "territorial integrity" would be the foundation of any peace deal to end the war with Russia.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Putin's Demands
Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed gratitude for Pyongyang's "unwavering support" at the start of a summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un that began with a red-carpet welcome on June 19 as the two fiercely anti-Western leaders sought ways to boost cooperation.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Putin's Demands
The European Court of Human Rights on June 18 ruled unanimously that Russia violated the European Convention on Human Rights when it labeled several foreign organizations operating in Russia as "undesirable" and when it prosecuted Russians for being involved with those organizations.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Putin's Demands
International human rights groups and activists have strongly condemned a prisoner exchange between Sweden and Iran that involved Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian prison official convicted in the Nordic country of crimes against humanity. Nouri, who was exchanged on June 15 for Swedish nationals Johan Floderus and Saeid Azizi, returned to Iran using his alias "Hamid Abbasi," a name linked to the executions of political prisoners in 1988.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Putin's Demands
Russia has turned increasingly to blackmail and financial incentives to hire Germans to spy for it after the blow dealt to its intelligence services by Europe's expulsion of some 600 Russian diplomats, Germany's domestic security service said. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) said Russian intelligence services were spending big to recruit agents in Germany despite Western attempts to limit their operations since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Russian court |Putin's Demands
The United States has expressed concern over Russia's decision to try Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich for alleged espionage in a closed trial but said U.S. Embassy representatives will still try to attend the court hearing scheduled for later this month.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Putin's Demands
The Strategic Command of Ukraine's armed forces said on June 17 that its forces had damaged 15 Russian air defense systems in occupied Crimea since May. Russian S-300, S-350, and S-400 antiaircraft divisions have been affected, the Strategic Command said on social media. These missile divisions are capable of launching surface-to-air missiles. Military experts have called the S-400 system one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Putin's Demands
A Russian nuclear-powered submarine and other naval vessels on June 17 left the port of Havana after a five-day stay. The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan -- which Cuba said was not carrying nuclear weapons -- docked in Havana on June 12. Washington said it did not see the visit as a threat, but the U.S. Southern Command said on June 13 that a U.S. fast-attack submarine arrived at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of a planned and routine port visit.
