Category: anti-government

Iran Security Forces Kill 2, Arrest 2 Over Deadly Attack

CAIRO—Iranian security forces killed two men and arrested two others allegedly behind a deadly shooting last month in a southwestern city, state-run media reported, amid conflicting accounts of the incident that coincided with a wave of anti-regime protests. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said the two suspects killed were behind last month’s shooting that left…


5 in Hong Kong Found Guilty of Sedition Over Children’s Books

Five Hong Kong speech therapists were found guilty on Wednesday of a conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books, a decision denounced by rights campaigners as a blow to free speech in the city. The five were accused of publishing three picture books, featuring cartoons of sheep and wolves, which government prosecutors alleged had spread separatism…