Mathew Shaer

Allow me to add a little context. The maximum capacity that the Crown Courts can sit is 130,000 days a year. The government is - for reasons of money - forcing courts to close on 19,000 days per year. At a time when the backlog is so bad, the govt wants to remove jury trial.

China pressured a British university for years to stop research on human rights abuses Documents show that Beijing spent over two years trying to silence Sheffield Hallam University over its studies on Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang. University staff in China reportedly faced threats from individuals believed to be linked to Chinese state security, and the school’s website was blocked in the country. Eventually, the university refused to publish the final report by Professor Laura Murphy’s team and later banned her from continuing the research. Murphy is now suing the university, accusing it of “sacrificing academic freedom for Chinese tuition money.” 📰 BBC