‘Like being buried alive’: Australian journalist Cheng Lei on life in a Chinese prison

Cheng Lei said Chinese prison makes ‘you feel isolated, and bored and pained and desperate’. Photograph: Sarah Hodges/Australia's Department of Foreig/AFP/Getty Images

Reporter reveals she was arrested for breaking a news embargo, and talks about how she survived months in solitary confinement

Cait Kelly

Australian journalist Cheng Lei spent almost three years in China’s prison system for breaking an embargo by a few minutes, she has revealed in her first interview after returning home to Melbourne last week.… Read the rest

DIPR ORGANIZES CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING

DIPR ORGANIZES CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING

KOHIMA, Oct 12: At the IPR Conference Hall in Kohima, the Directorate of Information & Public Relations hosted a two-day capacity-building training on service rules, account concerns, and photography. The two-day training got under way on October 12 and will end on October 13.… Read the rest

‘Generations of Haitians’ at risk, warns Guterres, calling for international force to help quell gang violence

‘Generations of Haitians’ at risk, warns Guterres, calling for international force to help quell gang violence

In Port-au-Prince on Saturday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed solidarity with the Haitian people “facing a terrible and mutually reinforcing cycle of… crises”, and urged deployment of an international force to assist the National Police in combating gang violence.


The UN chief expressed deep concern at the extreme vulnerability faced by the Haitian people – especially women and girls – because of brutally violent and “predatory” armed gangs, like those encircling the capital, blocking main roads and controlling access to water, food, health care.

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Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 being conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur

Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 being conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur

KOHIMA, Jun 18 (NEPS): The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021 is being conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur.

The Jury headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after due deliberations on 18 June, 2023, unanimously decided to select Gita Press, Gorakhpur as the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021, in recognition of its outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods.… Read the rest

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