JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian was killed and six others were injured by the Israeli army on Friday in the West Bank city of Jenin. “The result of the Israeli aggression against the city of Jenin is one martyr and six injuries, including one in a very critical condition (a bullet to the head),” […]
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Violence is escalating in the occupied West Bank in the wake of relentless Israeli raids, crackdowns and demolitions. A second attack by Palestinians in retaliation to Israeli assaults has left an Israeli soldier dead. The Israeli army said the soldier, identified as 21-year-old Ido Baroukh, was killed wh...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan on Wednesday demanded an investigation into the death in jail of Altaf Ahmed Shah, a prominent pro-freedom leader in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The demand was conveyed to the Indian charge d’affaires in Islamabad, who was summoned by the Foreign Ministry to protest Shah’s “inhumane custodial...
Kashmiri pro-freedom leader Altaf Ahmed Shah, who had been in prison for the past five years for advocating the right to self-determination for Kashmiris, passed away on Monday night, a few days after he was diagnosed with late-stage renal cancer, according to his family. Altaf Ahmed Shah, 66-year-old, was a leader of a prominent pro-freedom ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The European Union will contribute €6.2 million ($6 million) through the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) for persecuted Rohingya refugees and their host communities on the southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The UNHCR in a statement Monday welcomed the EU’s contribution, saying it will support the monitoring ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has expressed concern over the response by Iranian security forces against “peaceful” protests, saying Washington will this week impose sanctions on perpetrators of violence against protestors. “I remain gravely concerned about reports of the intensifying violent crackdown on peacef...
ANKARA (AA) – Several UN human rights experts have expressed concern to the Indian government about the continued lack of identification and preservation of unmarked single and mass burial sites in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The experts, who include seven special rapporteurs on involuntary disappearances, extrajudicial executions, and the indepe...
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): Two Somali human rights activists and a Ukrainian human rights lawyer have won Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award on Thursday, which it considers an alternative to the Nobel prize. The Right Livelihood Foundation also honoured Venezuela’s Cecosesola, an organisation offering social services, and the African In...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Several human rights groups have called for ending Israel’s apartheid regime in the Palestinian territories. In a press conference held in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, the rights groups termed last month’s Israeli raids on Palestinian NGOs “an attempt to further silence the Palestinians.” The NG...
NABLUS CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to Israeli media. Army Radio said a number of Palestinian gunmen driving a car and a motorbike were ambushed near the West Bank city of Nablus. One Palestinian was killed and three others injured, the […]
