Chinese human rights activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiasi will spend the next 12 and 14 years in prison for “subversion of the state.” The Guardian reports this. Xu and Ding are members of the New Citizens' Movement, which sought greater transparency among officials and full implementation of constitutional rights for the country's citizens. It is unknown what articles the human rights activists were charged with.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Roman Nasryev and Alexey Nuriev to 19 years in prison for setting fire to the administration building, which housed a military registration desk. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone. According to the project, activists must spend the first 4 years in prison, and the remaining term in a maximum security colony. This is currently the longest sentence for anti-war arson.

The United Nations has protested against the ban on Afghan women working at the UN. This was reported on the website of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The organization said the Taliban government prevented female UN staff from reporting to work in Nangarhar province. UNAMA also said that the organization had received notice from the Taliban that all Afghan women would be banned from working at the UN.

At the Sakharovo migration center, foreign citizens are offered to sign a contract to serve in the Russian army. “Sirena” talks about new cases of recruitment. For participating in the war, migrants are promised Russian citizenship, a monthly salary of 190 thousand rubles, as well as housing assistance, health insurance and pension benefits. “Last time everything was verbal.

On Tuesday, April 11, the State Duma of the Russian Federation will consider amendments to the law on military registration. This was announced by the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov. It is planned that the legislature will consider amendments that would introduce a unified register of those liable for military service.

The swimming pools, well-watered gardens and clean cars of the city's wealthiest residents are at least as much responsible for water supply crises as the global climate crisis or population growth, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability. The researchers took Cape Town in South Africa as the object of analysis. It turned out that the richest residents of the city used 50 times more water compared to the poorest part of the population.

The Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary sentenced activist Elena Romana-Blinova to two years of forced labor with the withholding of 10% of earnings to the state for alleged involvement in the extremist organization “Artpodgotovka” recognized by the Russian authorities.

On March 24, citizen of Uzbekistan gathering Rustamov was stolen in Moscow, without extradition inspections were taken to Samarkand and placed in prison. DOXA was told about this in the Committee "Civil Assistance". The authorities of Uzbekistan accuse Rustamov of involvement in "Hizb U-Tahrir" . The specific time of the abduction of Rustamov is unknown. On March 23, 2023, he was in Moscow and got in touch with a lawyer Rosa Magomedova.

Volunteers managed to return home 24 children abducted by Russia from the Kherson region. This was announced by the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Alexander Prokudin. Alexander Prokudin with returning children Alexander Prokudin As Prokudin stated, this was one of the most difficult operations to return children home.

More than a dozen schoolgirls were taken to hospital on the outskirts of Tehran on Saturday following another gas attack on a girls' school in Iran. This was reported by Anadolu Agency. According to the agency, media in Pardis, a suburb of Tehran, reported that students of the Khayyam Girls School complained of feeling unwell after the explosion of a homemade grenade. They said gas released by the explosion caused dizziness among female students and at least 15 of them had to be hospitalized.

They plan to install facial recognition cameras in the main building of Moscow State University and introduce electronic passes. This was reported by First University with reference to the regulatory documents of the university. The Telegram channel published the terms of reference “Performing work to modernize the access control and management system for Lomonosov Moscow State University buildings,” found on the government procurement website.

Spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has apologized after a video of him kissing a child on the lips and asking him to "suck his tongue" was criticized on social media. CNN reports this. In a statement, the Dalai Lama's office said he "wants to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends around the world, for the pain his words may have caused." “His Holiness often innocently and playfully teases people he meets, even in public and in front of cameras,” the statement said.

Russian troops shelled the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions, the heads of the local military forces report. In the Zaporozhye region, the buildings of a bakery were damaged; there is no data on the wounded or dead. Four people were injured in the Donetsk region. The Russian army shelled 18 residential buildings, businesses and other civilian infrastructure buildings. Russian troops also destroyed an apartment building in Avdeevka.