Tuesday, 18 December, 2018

A Human Rights Activist And A Secret Prison In China.

A Human Rights Activist And A Secret Prison In China

Posted on Thursday, 5 January, 2017Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

A Human Rights Activist And A Secret Prison In China.

Peter Dahlin, a Swedish human rights activist, was arrested in early 2016 and kept incommunicado for 23 days, interrogated, and eventually expelled. This detailed article informs us what actually happened during his ordeal in the ‘black prison’ system within China, where dissenting voices against the authoritarian bureaucracy of the State, which does not tolerate any dissent, are tortured until a confession is extracted. The clampdown under President Xi since November 2012 has been relentless, as the State attempts to suppress any normal expressions of human rights of her citizens, and foreigners too have not been exempted. I cannot imagine the steeper level of torture and indignities that is probably meted out to Chinese citizens, having read Mr Dahlin’s account.

Read Article Here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/03/human-rights-activist-peter-dahlin-secret-black-prison-xi-jinpings-new-china

Vela Supernova Remnant.
Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi (Star Echoes). At the northwestern edge of the constellation Vela (the Sails), the four frame mosaic is over 10 degrees wide, centred on the glowing filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the supernova explosion that created the Vela remnant reached Earth about 11,000 years ago. In addition to the shocked filaments of glowing gas, the cosmic catastrophe also left behind an incredibly dense, rotating stellar core, the Vela Pulsar. Some 800 light-years distant, the Vela remnant is likely embedded in a larger and older supernova remnant, the Gum Nebula.

December 18: The Moon passes 5° south of Uranus (image above), 4h UT (11 PM EST).

December 20: Jupiter passes 5° north of Antares, 2h UT (9 PM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 6° north of Antares, 8h UT (3 AM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 0.9° north of Jupiter, 15h UT (10 AM EST).

December 21: Summer Solstice occurs at 22h23m UT (5:23 PM EST).

December 22: Full Moon occurs at 17h49m UT (12:49 AM EST).

December 24: The Moon is at perigee (361,061 km from Earth), 9h49m UT (4:49 AM EST).

Credit: Astronomy.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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