Chinese dissident Cheng Siming is holed up in the transit lounge at Taiwan’s Taoyuan international airport. Photograph: APChinese dissident Cheng Siming is holed up in the transit lounge at Taiwan’s Taoyuan international airport. Photograph: APTaiwanChen Siming pleads for safe passage to US, saying his situation is ‘dangerous and urgent’ amid Beijing’s pursuit of him
A Chinese dissident who has taken refuge in a Taiwan airport during a stopover has said he is prepared to wait months if needed, in order to get safe passage to a third country. Read More...
IrelandIrish police investigate fire at disused pub set to house homeless familiesBlaze in Dublin comes less than fortnight after suspected arson attack on vacant Galway hotel earmarked for asylum seekers
Irish police have been investigating a second fire in less than a fortnight at a building local people reportedly believed would be used to accommodate asylum seekers.
The emergency services were called to the scene at the Ringsend area of Dublin in the early hours of New Year’s Eve. Read More...
The ObserverIsrael-Gaza warPolice allow chant at 100,000-strong demo, despite the home secretary saying it calls for the destruction of Israel
At 11.31am on Saturday, the first rendition was heard, drowning out the double-decker buses circling Marble Arch. Several dozen protesters had begun urgently chanting the controversial slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. Three metres away, a pair of officers from the Metropolitan police’s territorial support group looked on impassively. Read More...
