The Legal Research Society

Although many people are heatedly discussing Tibetan issue, Tibetan terrorists or criminals, who infringed on the fundamental human rights of many innocent victims, should be punished according to existing law and the rule-of-law principle. Currently, many websites and newspapers maintained by volunteers exposed some lies and distortions in some western media, which always reported how Tibetan protestors were‘protecting their human rights’, but neglected and scarcely reported expression from Chinese common people. Basically, there is expressive freedom in Western countries and some lies and fabricated stories, especially in some prestigious media are not charged with any legal consequence. From the other perspective, some distorted opinions do arise nationalism within most Chinese people, who reflect totally different from the opinions as to 1989 Tian-an-men Affair. If these reports are prejudicial to China and distorting some truths, should the media freely be forum of helping certain...

Real Politicians, Fake Photos I have heard that appearances are deceptive but images can be deceptive too! I just came to know that Photoshop is quite popular with politicians now-a-days to create audience for their large public rally? I have to say it was a revelation for me that politicians can ridicule themselves in such a ludicrous manner. A couple of days ago I received an article written by Murtaza Shibli (Editor, Kashmir Affairs, London http://www.kashmiraffairs.org/ ) about this subject. I was interested in this topic because he mentioned among others Chief Minister of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir; Ghulam Nabi Azad uses photo-editing software to manipulate crowds to show the world community how much public support he enjoys. (Photo attached) In Kashmir from last 60 years people are claiming self-determination and are victimised by the State terrorism. The surrogate local government in Kashmir has to survive on political spin and therefore unethical methods of staying i...