Saturday, June 22, 2024

Iran's top court overturns rapper Toomaj Salehi's death sentence, lawyer says

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Iran's supreme court has overturned Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi's death sentence on charges linked to the country's 2022-23 period of unrest, his lawyer wrote in a post on the X social media platform on Saturday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-rapper-sentenced-death-1.7243699?cmp=rss

There's an old problem Canada's new foreign-interference law won't fix

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Intelligence veterans who've observed how Canada uses espionage in criminal prosecutions, compared to the U.S. and other countries, say the challenge can't be fixed in the soon-to-be-enacted Bill C-70.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/foreign-interference-intelligence-comparison-us-1.7240299?cmp=rss