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Can Indian Parliament do what South Korean Parliament did on martial law?
1 month ago

Can Indian Parliament do what South Korean Parliament did on martial law?

India Today  

President Yoon Suk Yeol surprised the world by declaring martial law in South Korea last week, but it was swiftly rejected by Parliament. South Korea's recent brush with martial law has sparked curiosity and raised questions about the arbitrary use of emergency powers in democratic nations, like India. "When India experienced one instance of the application of the emergency provisions …

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Haaretz stories cast doubt on health of Israel’s ‘democracy’
7 months, 1 week ago

Haaretz stories cast doubt on health of Israel’s ‘democracy’

Al Jazeera  

Haaretz staffer says he was told by a senior official that he would ‘suffer the consequences’ if he publishes the story. On Wednesday, it published an opinion piece by Jonathan Pollak with chunks of text redacted, referencing a standing gag order preventing media from discussing “administrative detention” – a system under which Israeli forces hold Palestinians indefinitely without charge or …

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El Salvador sends 4,000 security forces into 3 communities to pursue gang members
1 year, 2 months ago

El Salvador sends 4,000 security forces into 3 communities to pursue gang members

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador sent more than 4,000 security forces into three communities on the outskirts of the capital to root out gang members Wednesday, as President Nayib Bukele prepared to request another extension of emergency powers to combat crime. “We won’t allow small remnants to regroup and take away the peace that has cost so much.” …

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India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet
1 year, 10 months ago

India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet

Wired  

Akash Banerjee isn’t sure whether he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question on his YouTube channel. The documentary examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly riots in the West Indian state of Gujarat in 2002, and the government has worked hard to keep Indians from watching it. Screenings at universities have been banned; …

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Portentous overkill: The Hindu Editorial on the blocking access to and arrests over BBC documentary on PM Modi
1 year, 11 months ago

Portentous overkill: The Hindu Editorial on the blocking access to and arrests over BBC documentary on PM Modi

The Hindu  

The aftermath of the release of a BBC documentary on the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, which questions the actions taken by the then Gujarat government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, can only be termed as yet another rendition of the ‘Streisand effect’. After issuing directions to disable access to the first episode on websites using emergency powers under the …

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India ban on BBC Modi documentary ‘imperils press freedom’
1 year, 11 months ago

India ban on BBC Modi documentary ‘imperils press freedom’

Al Jazeera  

Media groups say India’s government is abusing its emergency powers under the 2021 IT Rules by blocking a BBC documentary. An adviser in India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday said that Twitter and YouTube have been asked to block links sharing the BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, which the government earlier labelled as a “propaganda piece“. The …

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Why Modi doesn’t want India to watch BBC film on Gujarat carnage
1 year, 11 months ago

Why Modi doesn’t want India to watch BBC film on Gujarat carnage

Al Jazeera  

India has used emergency powers to block airing of the documentary that questions PM Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 riots. India’s right-wing government has used emergency powers to block the airing of a BBC documentary which questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots. India has banned a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role …

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Explained: The ‘emergency powers’ used by India to block BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained: The ‘emergency powers’ used by India to block BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi

Firstpost  

The government has directed YouTube and Twitter to take down links to the BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question’, which revisits PM Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. “Videos sharing @BBCWorld hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage, disguised as ‘documentary’, on @YouTube and tweets sharing links to the BBC documentary have been blocked under India’s sovereign laws and rules,” …

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El Salvador: 55,000 suspected gang members arrested since March
2 years, 2 months ago

El Salvador: 55,000 suspected gang members arrested since March

Al Jazeera  

The crackdown continues as parliament extended emergency powers that allow authorities to arrest suspects without warrants. More than 55,000 suspected gang members have been arrested since President Nayib Bukele declared a so-called “war” on criminal groups seven months ago, the country’s justice minister has said, as the legislative assembly voted in favour of a further extension of a controversial state …

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As Canada protests persist, so do challenges for Trudeau
2 years, 10 months ago

As Canada protests persist, so do challenges for Trudeau

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While the pronouncement may halt a sharp recent drop in Trudeau’s approval ratings, he …

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Virus-hit Hong Kong invokes emergency powers to allow in China medics
2 years, 10 months ago

Virus-hit Hong Kong invokes emergency powers to allow in China medics

India Today  

Hong Kong's government invoked emergency powers on Thursday to allow doctors and nurses from the Chinese mainland to work in the territory to help combat a spiralling coronavirus outbreak. "Hong Kong is now facing a very dire epidemic situation which continues to deteriorate rapidly," the government said in its statement announcing the use of emergency powers. Chinese mainland medics are …

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Hong Kong turns to emergency powers for China help in COVID surge
2 years, 10 months ago

Hong Kong turns to emergency powers for China help in COVID surge

Al Jazeera  

Authorities say ‘dire epidemic situation’ behind move as territory struggles to contain wave of Omicron cases. Hong Kong has invoked emergency powers so that doctors and nurses from mainland China can join its efforts to fight what it said was a “dire epidemic situation” as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the densely-populated territory. “Hong Kong is now …

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Giorgio Agamben’s COVID denial: What happened to the world-famous philosopher?
2 years, 10 months ago

Giorgio Agamben’s COVID denial: What happened to the world-famous philosopher?

Slate  

The problem began, as a surprising number do, with a blog post. To quote Agamben’s idol Walter Benjamin—a German Jewish intellectual who witnessed the rise of Hitler and ultimately died by suicide to escape deportation to a concentration camp—the “state of exception has become the norm.” At the time of its U.S. release, in the darkest days of the Bush …

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As Canada protests persist, so do challenges for Trudeau
2 years, 10 months ago

As Canada protests persist, so do challenges for Trudeau

Associated Press  

TORONTO — Canada has endured bitter divisions in the past, but the current wave of disruptive protests over COVID-19 restrictions is unprecedented in the extent it has undermined public trust in government leadership, starting at the top with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. While the pronouncement may halt a sharp recent drop in Trudeau’s approval ratings, he may not recover his …

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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers to quell truckers' protests
2 years, 10 months ago

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers to quell truckers' protests

India Today  

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers on Monday to quell the paralyzing protests by truckers and others angry over Canada’s Covid-19 restrictions, outlining plans not only to tow away their rigs but to strike at their bank accounts and their livelihoods. “Send your rigs home.” Freeland, who is also the finance minister, said the government will also broaden its …

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Trudeau invokes emergency powers in response to trucker protests
2 years, 10 months ago

Trudeau invokes emergency powers in response to trucker protests

Al Jazeera  

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked an emergency measure for the first time in the country’s history to give his government more power to respond to ongoing anti-government trucker protests. In a news conference on Monday afternoon, Trudeau said he was invoking the Emergencies Act, which allows the federal government to take “special temporary measures” for a period of …

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For Third Time, Defence Ministry Extends Emergency Powers Granted to Army, Navy, IAF to Buy Ammunition
3 years, 1 month ago

For Third Time, Defence Ministry Extends Emergency Powers Granted to Army, Navy, IAF to Buy Ammunition

News 18  

The Defence Ministry has once again extended the emergency powers accorded to the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Integrated Defence Staff for urgent revenue procurements and works amid continuing tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, even as the ministry emphasised strengthening the existing rules of procurement, News18.com has learnt. As per top defence …

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California justices won’t limit governor’s emergency powers
3 years, 4 months ago

California justices won’t limit governor’s emergency powers

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to consider reining in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic, leaving in place a lower court’s ruling that the governor acted within his authority. The lawmakers had wanted the high court to overturn a decision in May by three judges from the 3rd District Court of Appeal …

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GOP makes fresh push to end Minnesota’s emergency powers
3 years, 7 months ago

GOP makes fresh push to end Minnesota’s emergency powers

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Republican legislative leaders made a fresh push Wednesday for ending Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s reliance on emergency powers to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, while state health officials reported continued progress on vaccinations and other key measures. But the two lawmakers — joined by Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, of East Gull Lake, and House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, …

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Rajnath Singh invokes emergency powers to allow Armed Forces to set up Covid facilities
3 years, 8 months ago

Rajnath Singh invokes emergency powers to allow Armed Forces to set up Covid facilities

India TV News  

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday granted emergency financial powers to the three services to allow formation commanders to establish and operate hospitals as well as quarantine facilities for COVID-19 patients. Singh's office said he invoked special provisions and granted emergency financial powers to the armed forces to empower them to speed up efforts in the nationwide fight against COVID-19. …

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[Book Launch] The Law Of Emergency Powers: Comparative Common Law Perspectives By Dr. Abhishek Singhvi And Prof. Khagesh Gautam
3 years, 11 months ago

[Book Launch] The Law Of Emergency Powers: Comparative Common Law Perspectives By Dr. Abhishek Singhvi And Prof. Khagesh Gautam

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Justice, N.V. Ramanna, Supreme Court of India along with three judges of the Supreme Court of India: Justice Surya Kant, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice D. Y. Chandrachud will release the book titled "The Law of Emergency Powers: Comparative Common Law Perspectives "authored by Dr. Abhishek Singhvi and Prof. Khagesh Gautam on 23 January, 2021. The historical analysis of …

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COVID, budget, top agenda as Minnesota Legislature convenes
4 years ago

COVID, budget, top agenda as Minnesota Legislature convenes

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Legislature convened Tuesday with the COVID-19 pandemic and a new two-year budget at the top of the agenda for a session that will be unlike any before. House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler, of Golden Valley, vowed that Democrats will fight for better jobs, living wages, paid medical leave, child care, affordable health care and secure retirements, …

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A new election ‘doomsday': Could Trump send in the troops?
4 years, 3 months ago

A new election ‘doomsday': Could Trump send in the troops?

The Independent  

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Could the Government make a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in Australia?
4 years, 3 months ago

Could the Government make a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in Australia?

ABC  

When Prime Minister Scott Morrison told Melbourne radio station 3AW a COVID-19 vaccine would be "as mandatory as you can possibly make it" there was an immediate backlash from some groups. Previously, Fact Check determined that in Western Australia, the Public Health Act 2016 set out powers that allowed an authorised health official to direct someone to be vaccinated under …

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