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Myanmar Military Uses Death Penalty To ‘Crush’ Opposition: UN

OB Digital Dec 3, 2022

Naypyidaw: Myanmar’s military government is using capital punishment as a tool to crush opposition to its rule and has sentenced more than 130 opponents of the regime to death since February 2021, a senior United Nations official said.…

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UN Exhorts Elon Musk to Ensure Twitter Respects Human Rights

OB Digital Nov 6, 2022

New York: United Nations(UN) has urged Elon Musk to ensure human rights are respected by the new policies. UN's High Commissioner of Human Rights Volker Turk has issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter,…