Faced with the population tired of the “zero Covid” health strategy, several cities have announced the end of large-scale PCR tests or quarantine for infected people.Following the protests, authorities increased police presence and social media monitoring to quell the movement. But videos published on Tuesday and geolocated by AFP show a crowd of students from Nanking University of Technology demonstrating at night in order to be able to leave the campus.A third-year student, wishing to remain anonymous, said the protest...
Iran's match against Wales on Friday obviously took a political turn. While the players of the selection sang their anthem this time, supporters had decided to bring symbols of the ongoing revolution to the stands of the Ahmed Ben Ali stadium in Al-Rayyan. Before being confiscated by the organizers.An AFP photographer saw Iranians forcibly take a "Woman Life Freedom" flag, which has become the rallying cry of the protest. Shortly after, a woman was expelled for brandishing a flocked jersey...
Lawsuit after Midterms In Arizona, Trump's Republicans are rehearsing the rebellion against the election - and the system Fought and lost. Kari Lake, a Trump nominee, won't recognize the midterm election results. © Ross D. Franklin/AP/DPA Again election problems. Again allegations of fraud. Arizona again. Three weeks after the midterm elections in the US, lawsuits and complaints about the voting results are raining down. The Trump Republicans are rehearsing (once again) the uprising. When Doug Ducey in his state of...
From our Special Envoy in Doha,Rarely have we waited so long before seeing the players of a team arrive in the mixed zone, and yet we are used to the Parc des Princes. In Lusail, the wait was worth the detour. On the one hand, the Arab press was delirious, on the other, Argentine journalists were brooding. We even surprised a colleague crying, a priori a little excessive for a defeat in the group stage of the World Cup, in...
From our Special Envoy in Doha,By taking over the head of the Iranian selection at the very beginning of September, Carlos Queiroz did not necessarily expect to have an easy life in Qatar. You would have to be crazy to be overconfident by embarking on a 2022 World Cup mission two months before the deadline. The height of misfortune for the Portuguese, his signature preceded by a week the death of Mahsa Amini, whose arrest for "wearing inappropriate clothes" by...
Two months that "Women, life, freedom" is hammered in the streets of Iran. On September 14, 2022, the first demonstrations took place in response to the arrest and then the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested by the morality police for some hair sticking out of her veil. Every day since this tragedy, young Iranians have taken to the streets, opposed the authorities, in universities, burned their veils or cut their hair.For two months, Iranian youth have been defying the authoritarian...
By Marylou MagalPublished 53 minutes ago, Update 40 minutes agoOusted from the new executive body, the mayor of Hénin-Beaumont Steeve Briois split a press release, denouncing a “purge” and a “re-radicalization” of the RN.Everything had to go as planned. For its 18th Congress, the Rassemblement National had seen things in a big way, at the Maison de la Mutualité, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. A symbolic place, to consecrate the advent of Marine Le Pen's successor, Jordan Bardella at...
Youth in the street, is the state screwed up? Large-scale demonstrations have been invading Iranian cities on a daily basis since September 16. That is the date of death in hospital of Mahsa Amini, 22, three days after her arrest in Tehran for non-compliance with the dress code for women in the Islamic Republic, who must cover their hair.Twelve days, without interruption, to defy the violent repression of the police, which has already killed around 60 people according to official...
Since the death of Masha Amini, arrested on September 13 by the morality police for not wearing her veil correctly, anger has taken hold in the streets of Tehran and throughout Iran. Several images and videos on social media show hundreds of people protesting against the Iranian authorities, including women burning their veils in protest.Many images have become the symbols of this new Iranian revolution, such as that of Hadis Najafi, killed during a demonstration. On Wednesday September 21, the...
More than a month after their fellow AgroParisTech students publicly called for them to "flee the 'destructive' jobs" promised to them, young Polytechnique graduates took advantage of the June 25, 2022 graduation ceremony to show their desire to give "greater importance to environmental issues".“Open up more to know-how”One thus affirmed that it was “urgent to agree to give up our small comfort, a comfort certainly reassuring, but deleterious”. Another felt that "as someone in a high-level position, my potential for...
