Tag: hijacking

CCP Uses Disinformation to Fuel Human Rights Abuses: Documentary Filmmaker

China leverages disinformation to inflame its repression of target groups, including the spiritual group Falun Gong, according to Peabody award-winning film director Jason Loftus. “Disinformation has been used to fuel atrocious human rights abuses like imprisonment and torture,” Loftus recently told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “It’s essentially a bully tactic of repressing people…


Hijacking Ends in Arabian Sea, Says UKMTO, as Oman Identifies Tanker Involved

DUBAI—Oman on Wednesday identified the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess as the tanker involved in a hijacking which Britain’s maritime trade agency earlier said was over. The statement by Oman’s Maritime Security Centre was the first official confirmation of Tuesday’s incident in the Arabian Sea which maritime security sources had told Reuters involved suspected Iranian-backed forces. Iran…