RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Thirty Palestinians held by Israel staged a hunger strike on Sunday to protest against their indefinite detention. “The strike aims to fulfil the demands of the detainees” for ending their administrative detention in Ofer prison west of Ramallah, Qadura Fares, the head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, told a pres...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank was an “extrajudicial execution,” Palestine said on Saturday. Israeli forces “executed without trial educator Mohammad Abu Kafiyya, 36, living in the village of Beit Ijza, northwest of Jerusalem,” Palestine’s Foreign Ministry said in...
NEW DELHI (AA) – An ongoing survey of madrassas (Islamic schools) in the populous Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is being criticized by many Muslim representatives, with political parties alleging that the move is aimed at harassing the Muslim community in the country. The local ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) recently ordered a survey of [&...
Sydney, Australia – (AFP): Hundreds of activists have rallied in Australia to decry colonial Britain’s destructive impact on Indigenous peoples, as the country held a public holiday to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Chanting “Abolish the Monarchy”, they staged demonstrations in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, pro...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) has rejected the issuance of fake domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris granting them voting rights by the Indian government in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir. A joint statement after a meeting of the foreign ministers of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir said [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least three people have been killed in several days of protests in Iran’s Kurdistan province over the death last week of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Kurdistan Governor Ismail Zarei Koosha announced that three people had been killed “suspiciously” in demonstrations held in cities of the prov...
ISTANBUL (AA) – There are 50 million people trapped in modern slavery, as one in every 150 people are “either forced to work against their will or in a marriage that they were forced into,” a UN report has revealed. The International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Walk Free, an [&h...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN refugee agency has said countries are bound by “international obligations” to prevent the deaths of migrants at sea. “Search and rescue at sea, and timely disembarkation are international obligations and are crucial to prevent further loss of life,” Shabia Mantoo told Anadolu Agency when asked for comments on the dea...
ANKARA (AA) – Six irregular migrants, including two babies and three children, lost their lives on Tuesday when Greek forces pushed them back to Turkish territorial waters in the Aegean, said the Turkish Interior Ministry. The Turkish Coast Guard found the lifeless bodies of six irregular migrants, including one woman, and rescued 66 mig...
PARIS (AA) – Millions of Russians will no longer be protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe said on Monday, as Moscow will cease to be a party to the convention on Sept. 16. According to Marija Pejcinovic Buric, the secretary-general of the Strasbourg-based council, with its departure from the [&hellip...
