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Jul 22, 2024 | polygraph.info | William Echols |Chin Malin

Share Cambodian authorities falsely claim environmental activists justly convicted “Their sentencing was based on sufficient facts and full legality, and that process was established through a clear investigation by authorities, which led to their conviction.” Human rights defenders and international agencies have broadly condemned a Cambodian court’s decision to sentence 10 environmental activists to six and eight years in prison for “plotting” against the state and/or lèse-majesté (defaming...

Jul 19, 2024 | polygraph.info | Leonid Martynyuk |Sergey Lavrov

On July 16, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov chaired a United Nations Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation. Speaking before the 15-member Council, which Russia presides over during the month of July, Lavrov repeated the Kremlin’s invalid talking points trying to justify a decade-long campaign of Russian aggression that has killed scores of civilians and devastated Ukraine.

Jul 18, 2024 | polygraph.info | Purity Mwambia |Paul Kagame

The U.S. Department of State accused Rwanda and Uganda of illegally extracting minerals, including gold and tantalum, from Congo in a July 8 statement. "These minerals directly or indirectly benefit armed groups and move out of the country through Rwanda and to Uganda before moving to major refining and processing countries," the U.S. said. Uganda denied involvement, saying it is cooperating closely with Congolese government forces in fighting the armed groups.

Jul 16, 2024 | polygraph.info | William Echols |Chein Weihua

State-run media in authoritarian countries have seized on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to highlight increased polarization in the United States and redirect attention to unrelated foreign policy issues. One propaganda narrative spread by Iranian state media and social media users is the claim that Western media outlets and officials have excessively focused on the July 13 attack on Donald Trump, while ignoring the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.

Jul 12, 2024 | polygraph.info | William Echols

Share China depicts NATO as peace-threatening alliance while holding military drills on member's border "Yet, more than two years into the Ukraine-Russia conflict, peace still appears distant, serving as an example that the coalition [NATO] is not promoting peace but rather threatening it." Chinese state media targeted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington this week with propaganda and disinformation portraying the alliance as serving only the interests of the...