Harry Wu, former Chinese dissident, prisoner for many years in laogai, is the president of the Laogai Research Foundation in Washington. Recently he has been elected member of the Patronage of the Freedom Committees. This is his first comment to the international economic and political situation

Jas Gawronski: “Sembra eccessivo, da parte degli europei, dare per scontato che Obama riesca a portare a termine tutti quei programmi che ha promesso. O che gli sono stati attribuiti”

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - With EU states nearing agreement on relaxing Belarus sanctions on Monday (13 October), the man that Minsk hired to help do the job - British public relations magnate Lord Timothy Bell - tells EUobserver about unmaking the image of a dictator

On September 30 2003, two days after Ariel Sharon, then the leader of Israel’s opposition Likud Party, went for a walk on Temple Mount, Palestinians mounted a demonstration at Gaza’s Netzarim Junction. A 55-second piece of video footage of that demonstration was to cause unprecedented violence in the Middle East and throughout the world

The huge spread of sharia finance should cause us the greatest possible concern. It is seen as relatively untroublesome way of reaching out to Muslims while making some people a very great deal of money. So everyone is happy? This couldn’t be further from truth