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184663
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On 20 September 2021, a Rwandan court sentenced Paul Rusesabagina—the hotelier immortalized in the film, Hotel Rwanda, for his role is saving hundreds of Tutsi from genocide in 1994—to twenty-five years in prison on terrorism charges. His daughter, Carine Kanimba, has campaigned against his detention, maintaining his innocence throughout the trial and conviction. By early 2021, the Paul Kagame government allegedly placed Kanimba under digital surveillance.1 Her iPhone was infected with spyware known as Pegasus, the product of an Israeli firm, NSO Group. The intrusion enabled monitoring of her calls, tracking of her
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123049
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The U.S. Senate rejects multilateral treaties as if it were sport. Some it rejects outright, as when it voted against the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities in 2012 and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1999. Others it rejects through inaction: dozens of treaties are pending before the Senate, pertaining to such subjects as labor, economic and cultural rights, endangered species, pollution, armed conflict, peacekeeping, nuclear weapons, the law of the sea, and discrimination against women. Often, presidents don't even bother pushing for ratification, since they know the odds are long: under the U.S. Constitution, it takes only one-third of the Senate to reject a treaty.
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ID:
103416
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