DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The Bangladesh police arrested four people on Tuesday on charges of killing two Rohingya leaders in a refugee camp. The Armed Police Battalion (APBN) said in a statement that the four people arrested are also Rohingya refugees, but from different camps in the southern district of Cox’s Bazaar. Bangladesh is currently [...
Doha, Qatar (AFP): FIFA’s president has sought to overcome lingering doubts about Qatar’s rights record ahead of the World Cup as the global body confirmed it is negotiating a fund for migrant workers who died or were injured. Gianni Infantino said “Qatar has delivered amazing” results with the multi-billion dollar stad...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union has sanctioned 11 Iranian individuals and four entities, including the country’s Morality Police over their role in the death of Mahsa Amini and the violent response to the recent demonstrations. Iran’s Morality Police and two of its key figures Mohammad Rostami and Hajahmad Mirzaei, Iranian Law Enf...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Greece must stop its “harsh treatment” of refugees and “cease its baseless and false charges against Türkiye”, an official said on Sunday. “We urge Greece to abandon its harsh treatment of refugees . . . and to deliver the dignity of government,” Fahrettin Altun, Turkiye’s communications director, said on Twit...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A teenaged Palestinian detainee on Friday succumbed to his wounds in an Israeli hospital. In a statement, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said Mohammad Ghawadra, 17, from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, underwent an opera...
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 ...
