GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 66 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, says a journalists body. “The fatalities included six female journalists,” the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said in a statement. It said two journalists are still missing, while 31 were detained by I...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian director and screenwriter Nawras Abu Saleh continues to use his camera to wage cultural resistance against Israeli occupation. Saleh spoke to the media about his short film, “Al Qeeq,” which is about the life of Muhammad Al Qeeq. It earned significant attention and positive feedback at the 69th Cannes Film Fes...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa’s anti-apartheid stalwart Aziz Pahad has died, his family and the ruling African National Congress Party (ANC) have announced. He was 82. Pahad passed away on Wednesday evening at his home in Johannesburg. His brother Essop Pahad, also a veteran of the struggle against white minority rule, died in J...
Algiers, Algeria – AFP A United Nations expert on Tuesday urged Algeria to pardon people convicted or detained over their involvement in the pro-democracy protests of 2019-20 and to ease restrictions on gatherings. The Hirak protests broke out in February 2019, forcing longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down two months later...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Prominent Pakistani journalist and anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan, missing for more than four months, returned home on Monday, his lawyer and police said. He had been arrested at an airport in the Sialkot city of Punjab as he tried to leave the country after May 9 protests over former Prime Minister […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Friday said that his country wants peace with all neighbors, including India, but Kashmir remains “key to peace” with New Delhi. In his address to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, Kakar said Pakistan desires peaceful and productive relation...
SRINAGAR, Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Dozens of people broke down when Kashmiri pro-freedom and religious leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq ascended the pulpit of the medieval Jamia Masjid in Srinagar to deliver his first Friday sermon as a free man after four years of house detention. The 50-year-old Farooq also sobbed as he […]...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – A Moroccan media watchdog has said that it filed a complaint against two French newspapers for their “unethical coverage” of a devastating earthquake that hit the kingdom earlier this month. The Moroccan National Press Council (NPC) said it filed a complaint to the Press and Mediation Ethics Council in F...
LONDON (AA) – The EU and the UK have criticized Iran over the human rights situation on the first death anniversary of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in custody in Tehran after being arrested police for allegedly violating the country’s designated dress code for women. In a statement, EU foreign policy chief Josep […]
ATHENS (AA) – The Council of the EU has announced that it listed four more individuals and six more entities from Iran over serious human rights violations. “Today’s package follows the High Representative’s declaration on behalf of the European Union to mark the anniversary of the killing of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, while […]...
