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Pawlowski was scheduled to appear at the trucker blockage in Alberta before being arrested for ‘mischief’ by undercover police. CALGARY, Alberta – Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski was arrested yet again at his home in Calgary this morning before he was scheduled to appear at a peaceful Freedom Trucker protest. Rebel News reported that an undercover SWAT team arrested the Christian preacher after staking out his home in a van, according to Pawlowski’s son, Nathaniel. ... Pawlowski was planning to perform a church service at the trucker blockage in Milk River, Alberta. In a live video of the preacher’s arrest, a...

A Chinese website, apparently connected to the Chinese government, containing a news item titled, "Chinese students in UK demonstrate against Tibet independence" has been brought to the attention of this office today. The report says, “Eighteen Chinese students held demonstrations last Saturday (meaning on March 22) in front of the British House of Parliament, and Tibet House, London headquarters of the Tibetan separatists, according to a student named Fang from Cambridge University. The students held placards demanding fair media coverage of events in Tibet and stood their ground in the face of threats from the separatists'. The Office of Tibet,...

IntroductionTreaties in international law are binding on the countries signing them, unless they are imposed by force or a country is coerced into signing the agreement by the threat of force. This is reflected in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which is regarded as a reflection of customary international law. The People's Republic of China (PRC) feels strongly about this principle, particularly as it applies to treaties and other agreements China was pressured to sign by Western powers at a time when China was weak. The PRC is particularly adamant that such "unequal" treaties and other agreements...

BEIJING -- A factory worker who helped to organize a strike during China's 1989 pro-democracy protests has been released after nearly 15 years in prison, a U.S.-based prison rights group said Saturday. Chen Gang reportedly was convicted of "hooliganism" and sentenced to life in prison following the violent crackdown that ended the 1989 protests centered on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, the Dui Hua Foundation said.

BEIJING - Twenty North Koreans who said they were fleeing persecution in their hard-line communist country rushed past Chinese guards and sought asylum Thursday at the Spanish Embassy, threatening suicide if they are sent back. The men, women and youngsters ran through the embassy's front gate, past two armed Chinese guards. One struggled briefly with a guard who grabbed him, but broke free and ran with the others into the main embassy building. "We are now at the point of such desperation and live in such fear of persecution within North Korea that we have come to the decision to...