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| China jails three rights activists in Guangzhou city - lawyers | |  By James Pomfret GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - A Chinese court jailed three rights activists for up to five years on Friday, lawyers said, on charges including inciting subversion, amid what critics see as an intensifying crackdown on dissent under President Xi Jinping. The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced human rights lawyer Tang Jingling and two other activists, Yuan Xinting, 44, and Wang Qingying, to five years, three-and-a-half years and two-and-a-half years imprisonment, respectively, according to their lawyers. Tang, 44, a prominent rights activist in the southern city of Guangzhou, was charged with "inciting subversion of state power" as well as publishing books on democracy.
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| Peacekeepers accused of abusing children in Central African Republic - U.N. | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday it had allegations that peacekeepers from Georgia, France and another unnamed European country sexually abused children while deployed in the Central African Republic. The alleged crimes, including rapes, mostly committed in 2014, came to light only in recent weeks and the national authorities concerned, as well as the European Union, have been informed and are investigating, it said. U.N. staff interviewed a girl and a boy who were aged 7 and 9 respectively when they were allegedly abused in 2014 by French "Sangari" troops, the statement said. |
| EU slams China's on-air "confessions" as unacceptable | |  The European Union on Friday delivered some of its strongest criticism yet of China's human rights record, calling the televised broadcasts of confessions by Chinese and European citizens "unacceptable". The comments prompted a rebuke from China, which consistently rejects any criticism of its human rights record. In a statement on its website, the 28-member bloc's delegation to China said the disappearance of several Hong Kong booksellers, including a British and a Swedish passport holder, was part of a "worrying trend".
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| Exclusive: EgyptAir mechanic suspected in Russian plane crash - sources | |  An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter. A senior security official at the airline denied that any of its employees had been arrested or were under suspicion, and an Interior Ministry official also said there had been no arrests. "After learning that one of its members had a relative that worked at the airport, Islamic State delivered a bomb in a handbag to that person," said one of the sources, adding the suspect's cousin joined Islamic State in Syria a year and a half ago.
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| Chinese military force to take lead on cyber, space defence | |  By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - A new Chinese military outfit will lead the country's push to enhance its cyber warfare, space security and online espionage capabilities, Chinese military observers and analysts said. Senior People's Liberation Army (PLA) officials and other observers have begun to give details of the country's new Strategic Support Force (SSF), whose establishment was announced at the end of last year as part of a major overhaul of the armed forces. "It's going to make them far more effective," said John Costello, a Washington-based analyst who focuses on China's cyber capabilities.
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| Thailand's draft constitution unveiled, elections pushed back | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand published a draft constitution on Friday but the official in charge of drawing it up said he feared it would not resolve long-running troubles and critics said it would produce weak civilian government under the sway of the military. The draft of Thailand's 20th constitution is to replace one scrapped after a 2014 coup by generals who promised stability in Southeast Asia's second biggest economy and to heal divisions after a decade of turbulence. Meechai Ruchupan, chairman of the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee, said his team had included clauses aimed at reconciliation but it had failed to come up with easy remedies.
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| China charges Canadian with spying, stealing state secrets -Xinhua | |  Canada said on Thursday it was monitoring developments closely after China indicted a Canadian citizen detained since 2014 on charges of spying and stealing state secrets. Kevin Garratt was detained in August 2014 near China's sensitive border with North Korea along with his wife, who was also detained for months before being released last year. Xinhua state news agency said Garratt was indicted in Dandong, a city in China's northeast where the Garratts had operated a cafe since 2008.
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| China statistics chief sacked amid corruption probe | | | The head of China's National Bureau of Statistics has been sacked after authorities announced an anti-corruption investigation against him this week, state media reported on Friday. The ruling Communist Party's top anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday that Wang Bao'an was "suspected of serious violation of discipline", a euphemism for corruption. Wang was deputy finance minister from 2012 to April 2015, when he took up the powerful post of statistics bureau chief, according to the party's anti-corruption watchdog. |
| FBI says video shows slain Oregon occupier reach for jacket pocket | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - The FBI released a video on Thursday investigators say shows one occupier of an Oregon wildlife refuge reach for his jacket pocket before being shot dead by law enforcement, after speeding away from a traffic stop where the group's leader was arrested. Authorities said 54-year-old Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, was armed when he was stopped by police and killed on Tuesday afternoon. The aerial video taken by a law enforcement aircraft showed Finicum speed away from authorities in a white truck and nearly strike a law officer, while trying to evade a police barricade before barreling into a snowbank and exiting the car.
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