GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip has caused five Palestinians to lose their lives this year, including three children, a local NGO said on Wednesday. In a statement, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said a cancer patient died on Tuesday after his repeated request for an exit permit for medical […]
JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and injured 16 more people in a massive military raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the deceased as Mohammad Musa Saabaneh, 29, according to the official Wafa news agency. The Israeli military [&hell...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire on Thursday in the occupied West Bank, authorities said. “Two young men were killed. Samer Khaled, 25, was killed by a bullet in the neck, and Yazan Afana, 26, was shot in the heart,” the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. It […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): Bangladesh’s government is in “denial” about systematic abductions carried out by security forces, families of missing relatives said Tuesday, during a protest demanding a United Nations probe into enforced disappearances. Rights groups accuse security forces of unlawfully killing around 2,500 people ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – An international advocacy group in its latest report has accused the Indian authorities of using “draconian laws” against journalists and human rights defenders to silence their voices in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The report, titled “India Silencing Journalism & Human Rights in Kashmir”, ha...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The stateless Rohingya refugees living in congested camps in Bangladesh’s district of Cox’s Bazar have lauded the UK’s decision to intervene in their case against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The UK announcement has given persecuted Rohingya Muslims in the country and aroun...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan on Friday summoned the Indian charge d’affaires in Islamabad to formally protest what Islamabad described as the “extrajudicial” killing of a Pakistani citizen in Indian-occupied Kashmir. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Islamabad lodged a strong protest against the “extrajudicial” ki...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Embassies of 13 countries and the European Union delegation in Bangladesh in a joint statement on Thursday said that their countries would continue pressure on Myanmar to solve the Rohingya crisis and stop human rights violations under the military junta in the Buddhist majority state. The joint statement by the ...
Kutupalong, Bangladesh (AFP): Thousands of Rohingya refugees held “Genocide Remembrance Day” rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since fleeing a military offensive in Myanmar. In August 2017, around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed over the border with mainly Buddhist M...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Top diplomats of the EU, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the UK, and US have called on Thursday to hold perpetrators accountable for human rights violations against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. In a joint statement marking the fifth anniversary of the “brutal” military campaign against the Muslim minority, the for...
