Activist Magda Mamukashvili holds a protest banner calling policeman Lasha Salukvadze a law breaker - right in front of Salukvadze himself.

The faces are priceless! #GeorgiaProtests

📷 Basti Mgaloblishvili

報道の自由度、米国が過去最低　｢ジャーナリズムに危機｣ - 日本経済新聞 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Today we mark World Press Freedom Day!

It is a tragedy for me that we in Georgia meet this day with a journalist behind the bars.

🚨Mzia Amaghlobeli is the political prisoner, prominent Georgian journalist with more then 22years of professional experience in this field, founder of
@netgazeti.org

"“The Hitler tariffs, announced on Friday, February 10, 1933, stunned observers. “The dimension of the tariff increases have in fact exceeded all expectations”"

George Takei
mastodon.social/@georgetakei...

Taiwan Ranks First in Press Freedom in East Asia, Second in Asia-Pacific(TaiwanPlus)
www.taiwanplus.com/news/world-n...

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#HongKong has tumbled five places in the annual Reporters Without Borders Press (RSF) Freedom Index, entering the “red zone” – meaning a “very serious” situation – for the first time, alongside China.

In full: tinyurl.com/25dnqgqz #pressfreedom #IPFD2025 #PFD

1/ 15 ways to support HKFP: buff.ly/zvBfkwr

HKFP saw a deficit for the third year in a row in 2024 – a record HK$1.7m gap between our income & spending. Meanwhile, we fought threats and harassment, scrutiny from multiple government departments, and false complaints to the authorities last year...

違法建築「建てたもん勝ち」　札幌に3000棟、行政指導に応じない所有者も(北海道新聞)
www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/article/1153...

写真に写っている建物(札幌市役所)が違法建築なのかと思った。

Hong Kong police arrest family of pro-democracy activist, reports say(BBC)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hong Kong police arrest father and brother of wanted activist Anna Kwok(Reuters)
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

"His case marks the first time Hong Kong authorities have charged a family member of a wanted activist under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, more commonly known as Article 23 legislation."(HKFP)

Wanted activist Anna Kwok’s father detained pending trial for attempting to handle financial assets of ‘absconder’(HKFP)
hongkongfp.com/2025/05/03/w...

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

Ganzan Daishi was a real person who lived in Japan about 1,000 years ago. His real name was Ryogen. He was the head of a powerful Buddhist sect, but his actions aligned him with the clans that controlled the Japanese government at the time.

Ryōgen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8...

Amulets of Ganzan Daishi is said to be effective in warding off evil spirits, and the statue at Jindaiji is huge and has a devilish, scary face, so it seems particularly effective.😅

It is basically a secret statue that is only displayed to the public once every 50 years.

Photo: Tokyo Simbun

Due to treatment for a chronic disease, there will be fewer posts on Bluesky for a while.😩

By the way, I have absolutely no faith in transcendental beings, but I do not reject the custom of praying for recovery from illness, so I visited the sculpture of Ganzan Daishi at Jindaiji Temple in Tokyo.👍

静かに進む「米国離れ」　トランプ関税、世界を翻弄―政権100日｜時事通信｜2025年05月01日07時24分 www.jiji.com/jc/article?k...

「トランプ米政権の発足から100日。戦後、米国が主導した自由貿易体制に背を向け、相次ぐ高関税政策で世界を翻弄し続けた。日本を含む各国・地域は、関税率引き下げや減免措置を求めて米国との交渉を本格化させている。一方で、貿易相手国の多角化を進める『米国離れ』の動きも出始めた」

Twelve years ago, CNN…

I can see how the 82% figure came about...

1/ The Georgian Young Lawyers' Association has submitted a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights concerning the case of Mzia Amaglobeili.

GYLA has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of Mzia Amaglobeli, founder of Batumelebi&Netgazeti.
The case challenges Amaghlobeli’s unlawful detention and other rights violations, citing breaches of six fundamental rights under the European Convention on Human Rights

#Mzia entering the court ✊