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VOA: EU Suspends China Trade Deal over Human Rights Concerns
May 12, 2021
EU Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis announced that efforts to get the trade deal with China ratified by lawmakers in the European Parliament has been halted, citing that the EU sanctions against China and the Chinese counter-sanctions create an environment that is not conducive to the ratification of the agreement.
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Finnish Christian Politician Facing Charges for ‘Discriminatory Hate Speech'
May 10, 2021
Päivi Räsänen, a Christian Democrat MP, is facing charges of 'discriminatory hate speech' in her home country of Finland for stating her belief that homosexual activity is sinful according to the Bible.
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EU: Poland's Disciplining of Judges against EU Law
May 10, 2021
Believing that the independence and the impartiality of Poland's Disciplinary Chamber cannot be guaranteed, the European Commission has brought a complaint to the Court of Justice, asserting that Poland's way of disciplining judges is contrary to EU law.
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ECtHR Intervenes over Polish Tribunal
May 10, 2021
AP reports that in what some regard as a controversial move, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said that Poland’s top court violated a local company’s right to fair trial due to an irregularly appointed judge.
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French Politician Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Hate Speech Trial
May 05, 2021
A court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre found that former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen did not break hate speech laws by publishing gruesome images of Islamist atrocities on Twitter to prove the comparison of her party, National Rally, to IS, was absurd.