European Union

Plenary sessions : Parliament deplores the worsening climate for opposition politicians and human rights activists in Cambodia, calls on Tajikistan to allow opposition groups, lawyers and journalists to operate freely, and urges Vietnam to put an immediate end to all harassment, intimidation, and persecution of political activists, journalists, bloggers, dissidents and human rights defenders, in three resolutions voted on Thursday.

Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP

Plenary sessions : Parliament deplores the worsening climate for opposition politicians and human rights activists in Cambodia, calls on Tajikistan to allow opposition groups, lawyers and journalists to operate freely, and urges Vietnam to put an immediate end to all harassment, intimidation, and persecution of political activists, journalists, bloggers, dissidents and human rights defenders, in three resolutions voted on Thursday.

Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP

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The national conservative Freedom Party (FPÖ) is challenging the close results of Austria's presidential election in court. On Tuesday the party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache filed a 150-page document with the country's constitutional court listing irregularities in the election. With this move the FPÖ has once again successfully cast itself as the victim, some commentators object. Others take a positive view of the probe.

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