WASHINGTON (AA): The US State Department said Friday that it is in talks with Congress as a pair of Republican lawmakers continues to block the release of some $75 million in food aid for Palestinian refugees in hopes of seeing the funds released. “The Department of State remains in discussion with Congress regarding funds provided [&hel...
ISTANBUL – A 71-year-old Uyghur serving a 14-year sentence died in a prison in China’s Xinjiang province. According to reports, Abdurusul Memet was arrested in 2017 for studying the Quran, praying, and supporting a beard. Chinese authorities justified his religious leanings as “illegal religious activities.” His situati...
ISTANBUL – The physical and psychological torture of inmates was a common practice at the US Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, said a former Yemeni detainee who spent 15 years there due to his name being similar to that of a terrorist suspect. Speaking to Anadolu, Mansoor Adayfi highlighted how the US spy agency […]
Under the banner of the Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir, a citizens’ group that includes retired judges, military officers, and top civil servants, in a report, urges New Delhi to address fears of demographic change. By Iftikhar Gilani Even as four years later Indian Supreme Court began hearing on the revocation of […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Srebrenica Memorial Center has prepared a report that includes those who deny the genocide in 1995, in which over 8,000 Bosniak civilians were brutally killed by Bosnian Serb forces. The report was prepared in line with research done between May 2022 and May 2023 into denials and dow...
NEW YORK (AA) – Scores of migrants in need of shelter are sleeping on the streets of New York as the city is facing growing pressure to house arriving asylum seekers. Desperate for a place to sleep, migrants have lined up outside the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, which serves as an arrival center for […]
As Türkiye’s hopes for EU accession revive, head of Turkey’s human rights agency says human rights enforcement system in Turkey meets global standards. By Iftikhar Gilani (Muslim Network TV) ANKARA, Türkiye – As negotiations for Türkiye’s accession to the European Union (EU) are set to resume, the head of Turkey’s Human Right...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – In an unprecedented move, the Indian government has revoked the passports of several Kashmiris, including journalists and academics. Over the past 10 days, numerous Kashmiris living both in Indian-controlled Kashmir and abroad have reported receiving emails from the Indian government informing them of the su...
OSLO, Norway – A Uyghur woman has been arrested by Chinese security forces for complaining about her son’s long prison sentence. The woman, named Rahile Jalalidin, was arrested in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China’s far northwest. Her son, Zulyar Yasin, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for traveling ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The U.N. Tuesday called for an immediate end to the expulsions of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers from Tunisia to the borders with Libya and Algeria. In July, hundreds of people from sub-Saharan African countries were forced from the coastal city of Sfax by Tunisian security forces, and left stranded in [&hel...
