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The real death toll of the Chinese coronavirus in Iran may be over 600 people, the top dissident organization in the country revealed on Monday, while Tehran insists only 66 have died but acknowledges that at least one senior government official is among them.

Hong Kong police arrested the owner of anti-communist newspaper Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, along with pro-democracy Labour Party vice-chair Lee Cheuk-yan and former lawmaker Yeung Sum, on Friday morning for participating in protests in August.

Luis Zuniga, a former Cuban political prisoner imprisoned for his opposition to communism, responded to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) praise for dead Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in an interview on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.

Dr. Óscar Elías Biscet, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Castro regime, told Breitbart News Wednesday he considered the Obama-era policy of closeness to Cuba a “disaster” that “increased repression” against people like him.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), chair of the House Republican Conference, took the stage on the first day of the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and sent a pointed message to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by highlighting the story of a Cuban immigrant who, inspired by Ronald Reagan’s speeches, escaped Fidel Castro’s oppressive regime.

Authorities have stolen and wasted food donated to a Chinese city struggling under the pressure of a Coronavirus lockdown in China’s Hubei Province, The Epoch Times reported Tuesday.

Widespread declarations of Joe Biden winning Tuesday’s Democrat debate shows “how low the bar is” for Democrats, said Steve Scalise.

A senior Indonesian Health Ministry official baffled journalists by insisting that a man who tested positive for “SARS-CoV-2” did not have “COVID-19,” the Jakarta Post reported on Tuesday. The former is the virus that causes the latter.

Twitter said it censored a video posted by MRCTV, the video arm of the Media Research Center, by “mistake.” The video showed a 1980s clip of Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) defending Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.

CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed during Tuesday night’s Democrat debate that he has “opposed authoritarianism all over the world.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo published an open letter on Monday to his Cuban counterpart, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, urging Cuba to free tortured political prisoner José Daniel Ferrer, the head of the largest dissident group on the island.

Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg once bragged about scoring his 16-year-old daughter dates in multiple Chinese cities while visiting the country on business.

Four former Cuban political prisoners, who spent a combined 81 years in prison for their opposition to communism, have sent a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez condemning presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for praising the late dictator Fidel Castro.

The Iranian Health Ministry official in charge of Chinese coronavirus response, Iraj Harirchi, has tested positive for coronavirus himself, Tehran revealed on Tuesday.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and China’s Communist Party Central Committee forced 170,000 Party officials and military leaders on Sunday to watch Xi deliver a speech via teleconference on the chaos nationwide caused by the ongoing outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus.

Bernie Sanders has repeatedly told supporters that he has remained consistent in his call for Democrat socialism but has largely failed to address his affiliation with the Socialist Workers Party.

Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) on Monday decried Democrat primary frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) for praising aspects of communist dictator Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba.

Former Brexit Secretary and Tory leadership candidate David Davis has branded Boris Johnson’s decision to involve China in Britain’s 5G network the government’s “worst intelligence decision since MI6’s recruitment of Kim Philby.”

Chinese scientists have concluded that the Wuhan coronavirus did not originate at a wild meat market as the Communist Party had previously asserted, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) heaped praise on aspects of the education system in Cuba under the regime of communist dictator Fidel Castro, contending that it is “unfair” to say everything was bad under the brutal tyrannical leader.

The Elmhurst branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City announced on Friday that it would take down a Chinese government exhibit falsely depicting children in Tibet as happily learning the Tibetan language and living freely – a far cry from the repressive reality Beijing has imposed on the region.

A Lithuanian immigrant who attended President Donald Trump’s rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday spoke to Breitbart News and warned of the dangers of communism, saying Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) supporters “should go to a socialist country” to understand what it is like.

The Chinese communist regime announced the death of Peng Yinhua, a 29-year-old doctor from Wuhan, on Friday after the health professional contracted the novel coronavirus that has infected nearly 80,000 people worldwide.

During CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” network anchor Jim Cramer offered his reactions to the Nevada Democrat debate.

Pete Buttigieg’s father was “an avowed Marxist” admired by communists, noted Sebastian Gorka, host of America First 

The Chinese government is selling Kenya tons of fish poisoned with high levels of toxins like mercury, lead, and arsenic, the African country’s The Nation newspaper revealed in a study published Wednesday.

Mike Bloomberg knows better. The Republican former New York City mayor has launched a presidential campaign predicated on telling Democrats he knows better what is best for their own party.

“This is ridiculous, we’re not going to throw out capitalism, we tired that, other countries tried that, it was called communism and it just didn’t work,” Bloomberg said.

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reports in a briefing Tuesday that health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are using testing systems developed for Ebola to test for the Chinese novel coronavirus.

“The outbreak will be short-lived, and it will not affect China’s competitiveness,” the state-run Global Times newspaper proclaimed Tuesday.

“The only way for Hongkongers to achieve democracy is to become independent instead of seeking autonomy under the rule of China,” Andy Chan Ho-tin, the founder of the banned Hong Kong National Party, told Breitbart News.

A 137-page document detailing China’s systematic repression of Uyghur and other minority Muslims in western Xinjiang province listed that the top reason for sending Muslims to concentration camps in one county as “having too many babies,” Deutsche Welle revealed on Monday.

China’s year-round legislature will meet next week to discuss postponing the annual session convening every lawmaker in the “National People’s Congress” (NPC), a body that typically approves laws already decided by senior Communist Party officials.

Chinese state media revealed Sunday that four local Communist Party officials in Wuhan, China, had been “punished” after a suspected coronavirus patient hanged himself.

Egypt has confirmed the first case of novel Chinese coronavirus in Africa, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday, alarming experts who fear the continent’s healthcare systems are too fragile to combat another epidemic.

China steals Western capabilities, intimidates smaller nation states and seeks “advantage by any means and at any cost,” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper cautioned on Saturday as he cast the world’s most populous nation as a disruptive threat to world order.