GENEVA (AA) – A U.N. official has expressed concern about the high number of criminal convictions of Palestinians. The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese (UN), said that many Palestinians are convicted for ordinary acts, such as protesting or participating in demonstrations. Albanese said the ...
WASHINGTON – Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he was expelled from the league after speaking out against human rights abuses in China. Freedom told Congress on Tuesday he was banned from the NBA after wearing shoes that pointed to Beijing’s persecution of Tibetans and Uyghurs. The NBA’s Chinese affiliate is worth about $5 [...
GENEVA (AA): A UN expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories said on Tuesday that the high number of criminal convictions for Palestinians stems from violations of international law and the criminalization of ordinary acts of life. Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1...
Srinagar, India (AFP): India’s top court has begun considering a challenge to the 2019 imposition of direct rule in Indian Occupied Kashmir, a decision accompanied by mass arrests of Kashmiris and a months-long internet blackout. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government suspended a section of the constitution that guarantees limit...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli police evicted yet another Palestinian family from their home in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday. “Police stormed the house as we were asleep and evicted us from the building,” Ahmed Sub Laban told reporters. Witnesses said police later allowed Israeli settlers into the house in Aqbat al-Khalidiya in Jerusalem’s Old ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to repatriate the Rohingya people to Myanmar. Speaking at an international conference on public health and diplomacy in Dhaka, the premier said the immediate return of Rohingya refugees to their home country is the only durable solution to the longstandin...
ANKARA, Türkiye – Prominent Afghan citizens have launched a campaign to force the Taliban to allow the reintroduction of girls’ education in Afghanistan. One of the members of this campaign, Fazl Hadi Wazeen, told Muslim Network TV that this campaign has been launched both inside and outside Afghanistan. Wazeen, an academic and politicia...
TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian court has sentenced rapper Toomaj Salehi to 6 years in prison for participating in protests and criticizing the government. Salehi had been arrested last October after taking part in protests that erupted in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Amini woman had died in police custody. The [&he...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan has said the lack of access to Myanmar is hampering his investigation into the alleged Rohingya genocide. Speaking to reporters in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, he said he has access to war-torn areas of Ukraine but not to Myanmar. He said this affected...
NEW YORK (AA) – The U.S. state of Texas is building a barrier on the Rio Grande River border to keep out irregular migrants. A tweet from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed images of large orange buoys being transported to be installed on the river in the town of Eagle Pass. Texas shares […]
