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 […]
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...
