Nigeria – On September 24, two militants suspected to belong to the terror group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), shot and killed two Christians in Kano, the capital city of Plateau state.

The two Christians who were murdered, Ifeanyi Ilechukwu and Chibuke Emannuel, were sitting at their shop at around 8pm. Two terrorists approached them and shot them at close range. Ifeanyi died instantly, and Chibuke died the following day in the hospital. The murders came less than a week after ISWAP bombed a Christian-owned business in northeastern Nigeria on September 18. Nobody died in that incident, but the three Christians who were in the shop at the time had to be rushed to the hospital.

Across Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, there has been a rise in crime and violence exacerbated by the economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Armed robberies occur often, and kidnappings for ransom have become increasingly common. The northwestern parts of the country have seen mass abductions of children from schools and indiscriminate attacks on towns and villages by armed gangs.

However, the worst and longest-running security crisis remains the one in the northeast, where Boko Haram and ISWAP, which broke out of the former, have killed, abducted, and looted on a massive scale while fighting against the Nigerian military. The radicalized Islamic groups are attempting to establish a caliphate in the region, and they frequently target Christians in their attacks.
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സൗദി: തെറ്റിദ്ധരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന രീതിയിൽ പരസ്യങ്ങൾ നൽകിയ 24 ഓണ്‍ലൈന്‍ പരസ്യ ദാതാക്കള്‍ക്ക് പിഴ ചുമത്തി സൗദി. സൗദി വാണിജ്യ മന്ത്രാലയം ആണ് പിഴ ചുമത്തിയ വിവരം പുറത്തുവിട്ടത്. രാജ്യത്ത് നിലനിൽക്കുന്ന ഇ കൊമേഴ്‌സ് നിയമം ലംഘിച്ചാണ് പരസ്യം പുറത്തുവിട്ടത്. പരസ്യങ്ങൾ പുറത്തുവിട്ടവരിൽ സ്ത്രീകളും ഉൾപ്പെടും. ഇന്‍സ്റ്റാഗ്രാം, സ്‌നാപ്ചാറ്റ്, ടിക് ടോക്, ട്വിറ്റര്‍ തുടങ്ങിയ സോഷ്യൽ മീഡിയ വഴിയാണ് ഇവർ പരസ്യങ്ങൾ പുറത്തുവിട്ടത്.

പരസ്യങ്ങൾ തെറ്റിദ്ധരിപ്പിക്കുന്നതും ആളുകളെ വഞ്ചിക്കുന്നതും ആണ്. ഇത്തരത്തിലുള്ള പരസ്യങ്ങൾ പങ്കുവെച്ചതിനാണ് ഇവർക്കെതിരെ കേസ് എടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. പരസ്യങ്ങളിൽ ഇവർ തെറ്റായ വാദങ്ങൾ ആണ് ഉന്നയിക്കുന്നത്. തെറ്റായ അവകാശവാദങ്ങളും മുന്നോട്ടുവെക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. രാജ്യത്ത് ഇത്തരത്തിലുള്ള പരസ്യങ്ങൾ പുറത്തുവിടുന്നത് സംബന്ധിച്ച് ശക്തമായ നിയമം നിലനിൽക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. ഇത് തെറ്റിച്ചതിനാണ് നടപടിയുമായി അധികൃതർ എത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഇതൊരു പാഠം ആയിരിക്കുമെന്നും നിയമം എല്ലാവർക്കും ബാധകമാണെന്നും ഇ കൊമേഴ്‌സ് നിയമത്തിലെ വ്യവസ്ഥകള്‍ ലംഘിച്ചാൽ ശക്തമായ നടപടി സ്വീകരിക്കും എന്ന് അധികൃതർ അറിയിച്ചു.
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Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld a six-year jail term imposed on Theary Seng, a prominent Christian and pro-democracy advocate who was jailed for treason after backing former opposition leader Sam Rainsy and the outlawed Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP).

“I think this was unfair for my client,” her defense lawyer, Choung Chou Ngy, who filed the motion to appeal in August, said after the decision.

Judge Kong Srim ordered that Theary Seng remain in prison after the Supreme Court agreed with the lower court’s verdict, adding her release would affect public order.

Theary Seng, whose work includes editing the Khmer version of the Bible, was among more than 120 people charged in three mass trials that followed Sam Rainsy’s failed bid to return to Cambodia in late 2019 when he promised to oust Prime Minister Hun Sen.

She was one of more than 50 CNRP activists convicted and jailed in June and was moved from a prison in Phnom Penh to another in Preah Vihear, in the remote north, after prison officers lodged complaints saying that she could incite other female prisoners.

“This regime will not let me go free,” she said ahead of the June verdict. “It will be an unfair and unjust verdict, because I am innocent, the others charged with me are innocent. But we are living in a dictatorship.”

Theary Seng was barred from entering the courtroom to hear her own verdict because she was dressed as the Statue of Liberty. Instead, she was arrested outside the court and jailed.

Four weeks ago an appeals court declined to grant Theary Seng – a Cambodian-American dual citizen – a request for release while her appeal was being heard.

“Given the circumstances, Theary is holding up quite well,” a close relative, who declined to be named, told UCA News recently. “She’s in good shape.”

Two more mass trials have since been launched while the marathon treason trial of former leader Kem Sokha continues amid claims by human rights groups the courts were being used to silence the government’s critics.

On Wednesday, Kem Sokha told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court that he was not involved with the Serbian-based Centre for Applied Non-violent Action and Strategies (Canvas) which the court claimed had trained 15 CNRP activists with “color revolutionary” strategies.

The CNRP was dissolved by the courts in late 2017 amid claims it was attempting to topple the government through a color revolution.

A crackdown on dissent followed and the long-ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won all 125 seats contested at national elections in July, the following year.

But the crackdown escalated dramatically after Sam Rainsy – who led the CNRP jointly with Kem Sokha – threatened to return from self-imposed exile in November 2019.

Hundreds of his supporters have been rounded up since then and jailed.
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