Wednesday 24 October 2018

The story so far


Five fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls displayed in the Washington Museum of the Bible have been removed by the museum authorities.

 Tests on the ink by German scientists proved that the scrolls could not be genuine.

Well I never.


German job portal Adzuna  has published the salaries of 45 world leaders including EU leaders:

Teresa May  - 175,600 €,
Emmanuel Macron - 181,700 €,

Angela Merkel  -  333,500 €


Well I never.


Reporters Without Borders reports 28 professional and non-professional journalists imprisoned in Saudi Arabia (169th on Press Freedom Index).

In some cases the families were not informed about the arrest, detention and legal proceedings until after the prison sentence had been handed down. The person merely disappeared and some months later after the 'trial' it was announced that they had been sentenced.

There's a petition on the Reporters Without Borders website which of course I've signed. Maybe you can too.

That's the story so far.



6 comments:

  1. I will have to look up the numbers in Turkey.

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    1. That could be interesting.

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    2. 245 in prison; 145 outstanding arrest warrants.

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    3. Now I know why I've never been there despite all those half price holiday offers,

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