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Turkish police fire tear gas to break up banned Istanbul Pride march

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Turkish police fired tear gas to disperse revellers at a banned gay Pride parade in central Istanbul on Saturday.

Police in riot gear pushed and dragged people who had been gathering to take part in the LGBTQ2 event in a side street off the city’s central Istiklal Avenue.

Some people were dressed up, others waived rainbow flags. Some 20 people, including a photo journalist, were detained, according to media reports.

Turkish authorities have repeatedly banned Pride events in recent years. Before then, thousands of people used to take part in the parade in the streets of Istanbul.

This year local authorities said they had banned the parade due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Turkey has long been a candidate to join the European Union but its accession process has been languishing for years as tensions flare over a variety of issues including human rights.

On Thursday, a majority of European Union leaders vowed to continue combating discrimination of the LGBTQ2 community in a joint letter amid a standoff with Hungary, whose parliament last week approved a bill that bans the distribution of material in schools deemed to promote homosexuality or gender change.

Turkish police fire tear gas to break up banned Istanbul Pride march

Assange Prosecution Relied On False Testimony From A Diagnosed Sociopath And Convicted Pedophile

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The Icelandic newspaper Stundin reports that a key witness in the US prosecution of Julian Assange has admitted in an interview with the outlet that he fabricated critical accusations in the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder.

“A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder,” Stundin reports. “The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.”

This major witness would be Iceland’s Sigurdur “Sigi” Thordarson, a paid FBI informant who after his short-lived association with WikiLeaks has been found guilty of sexually abusing nine boys as well as embezzlement, fraud, and theft in his home country. A court-appointed psychologist has found him to be a sociopath.

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