Ruth Green

1 month ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp Founder. World Economic Forum/Flickr.comIn a major settlement, Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has made ‘a full and unequivocal apology’ for the ‘serious intrusion by The Sun’ into the Duke of Sussex’s private life. News Group also admitted for the first time ‘incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun’ between 1996 and 2011.

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I'm 48, use social media occasionally, and I'm not very tech-savvy. Until recently I'd never used Telegram. But last year, after meeting the family of Ronan Kanda - the 16-year-old who was killed in a case of mistaken identity by two other teenagers who'd bought a sword and machete online - I decided to figure out how easy it was to buy a knife from social media. It seemed like the children in the case were able to buy huge, deadly weapons with shocking ease.

2 months ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus. Prachatai/Flickr.comBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has secured a seventh consecutive term in an election denounced internationally as a ‘sham’. The country’s Central Election Committee (CEC) announced that Lukashenko won 86.8 per cent of the vote on 26 January, with turnout topping 85 per cent. Already the longest serving president in Europe after 31 years in power, Lukashenko’s re-election will see him remain in office until at least 2030.

2 months ago | indexoncensorship.org | Danson S. Kahyana |Jemimah Steinfeld |Mackenzie Argent |Ruth Green

In Uganda, to be an opposition politician is to be a marked man or woman. You can be taken out of action at any time. This is one of the lessons that president Yoweri Museveni’s most formidable challenger – the popstar-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine – has learnt. In September, just weeks before talking to Index, Wine was taken to hospital after the police fired tear gas to disperse his supporters in the town of Bulindo, about 17km north of Kampala.

2 months ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

On 1 January Ukraine finally ratified the Rome Statute and formally became the 125th state party to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Iryna Mudra, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Justice, tells Global Insight that the ratification marks a watershed moment for Ukraine. ‘Ratification gives Ukraine full access to the International Criminal Court,’ she says.