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Executions in Saudi Arabia hit their highest-ever level with more than 300 in 2024 as number of prisoners killed surges at 'rocket speed' under MBS
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Executions in Saudi Arabia hit their highest-ever level with more than 300 in 2024 as number of prisoners killed surges at 'rocket speed' under MBS

Daily Mail  

Saudi Arabia has put over 300 people to death in 2024, according to an AFP tally, after four executions announced on Tuesday brought the kingdom's total to a level far outstripping the highest known annual figures. Human rights activists had previously warned Saudi Arabia could exceed 300 executions this year, with one execution being recorded almost every day. Saudi Crown …

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Netanyahu Considers 'Surrender Or Starve' Plan To Target Militants In North Gaza
2 months, 1 week ago

Netanyahu Considers 'Surrender Or Starve' Plan To Target Militants In North Gaza

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes. Dawou Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images “All …

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Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside
2 months, 1 week ago

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

The Independent  

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Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside
2 months, 1 week ago

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

LA Times  

Palestinians walk through the destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, in May. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of …

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Australia set to take Taliban to International Court of Justice for gender discrimination, joining Canada, Germany and Netherlands
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Australia set to take Taliban to International Court of Justice for gender discrimination, joining Canada, Germany and Netherlands

ABC  

Australia has taken groundbreaking legal action with Canada, Germany and the Netherlands which could see all four countries take the Taliban to the International Court of Justice over its oppression of women. 'Beginning of a path to justice' Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch Fereshta Abbasi said the announcement "may mark the beginning of a path to justice at the …

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China's Uyghur policies a 'racialised atrocity crime', Harvard law scholar finds
4 months ago

China's Uyghur policies a 'racialised atrocity crime', Harvard law scholar finds

ABC  

The Chinese government has imposed 4.4 million years of cumulative imprisonment on ethnic Uyghurs in its far-western Xinjiang region, a new report has found. The report, titled Uyghur Race as the Enemy and published by the Yale Macmillan Center's Genocide Studies Program, finds high rates of incarceration are part of "racialised atrocity crimes" occurring in China against Muslim minorities. The …

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BOOK REVIEW | A Gentler Past: Reminiscing With Nandita Haksar
4 months, 2 weeks ago

BOOK REVIEW | A Gentler Past: Reminiscing With Nandita Haksar

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 07, 2024 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ Nandita Haksar’s memoir is like a roller-coaster ride through an India that is disappearing, or perhaps, has already disappeared. Haksar’s exposure to human rights issues happened in the post-Emergency years, when the excesses committed by Indira Gandhi’s government spawned several human rights groups across India. Her book reminds us …

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Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

The Hindu  

Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. “We are condemned by the left because we are not fulfilling ethical issues,” said Dr. Yoel Donchin, an anesthesiologist who has worked at Sde Teiman hospital since its earliest days and still works there. Still, an April report from Physicians for Human …

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Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. This undated photo taken in the winter 2023 and provided by Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in …

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Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We are condemned by the left because we are …

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Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

LA Times  

Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees in Gaza on Dec. 8, 2023. These are some of the conditions at Israel’s only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detained by the military in the Gaza Strip, three people who have worked there told the Associated Press, confirming similar accounts from human rights groups. “We are …

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Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to Russian prisons. Ukraine says they’re being held as bargaining chips
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to Russian prisons. Ukraine says they’re being held as bargaining chips

CNN  

Kyiv, Ukraine CNN — “Dear mom and dad, I am alive and well. “The rule is that it is not a punishment,” Achille Després from the Kyiv branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross told CNN, adding that civilians can only be held if it’s “necessary” for “imperative reasons of security.” The Ukrainian government and several international organizations …

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Air Rwanda: Which airline will deport migrants on a one-way trip to Africa under Rishi's new plan? Aviation experts warn of huge 'commercial risks' for firms signing up to scheme
8 months ago

Air Rwanda: Which airline will deport migrants on a one-way trip to Africa under Rishi's new plan? Aviation experts warn of huge 'commercial risks' for firms signing up to scheme

Daily Mail  

Rishi Sunak has said it will be '10 to 12 weeks' before the first plane carrying asylum seekers takes off on a one-way trip to Rwanda. It was operated by UK firm Privilege Style Aviation expert Julian Bray said operating deportation flights carried many risks for airlines, comparing the scenario to 1997 film Con Air - where a US Ranger …

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Netanyahu says Gaza needs a new 'civilian government,' but won't say who
1 year, 1 month ago

Netanyahu says Gaza needs a new 'civilian government,' but won't say who

NPR  

Netanyahu says Gaza needs a new 'civilian government,' but won't say who Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel's actions and goals in Gaza in an interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep on Friday. NPR YouTube Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NPR that Israel is committed to doing three things in Gaza: destroying Hamas, freeing the Israeli hostages it's holding …

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Why is Pakistan driving out 1.7 million Afghan nationals?
1 year, 1 month ago

Why is Pakistan driving out 1.7 million Afghan nationals?

Firstpost  

Thousands of Afghan nationals are waiting at the borders, trying to find their way out, after Pakistan issued an order of deportation for all undocumented migrants. If I go back to Afghanistan, there’s also no guarantee for me to stay alive.” Another Afghan national, Khan Afzal Wafadar, who left Pakistan after his boss told him to either provide legal immigration …

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Gaza under siege: The 25-mile-long strip with 2.3 million ‘prisoners’
1 year, 1 month ago

Gaza under siege: The 25-mile-long strip with 2.3 million ‘prisoners’

The Independent  

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Thousands of Gaza workers go ‘missing’ in Israel amid wartime mass arrests
1 year, 1 month ago

Thousands of Gaza workers go ‘missing’ in Israel amid wartime mass arrests

Al Jazeera  

Palestinians whose permits to work in Israel were revoked are believed to be held in detention camps, but Israel has so far refused to release information about them, human rights groups say. Human rights groups and trade unions believe some of the workers have been illegally detained in military facilities in the occupied West Bank, following the revocation of their …

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A dictator’s daughter runs for president, unleashing memories of Guatemala’s dark past
1 year, 6 months ago

A dictator’s daughter runs for president, unleashing memories of Guatemala’s dark past

LA Times  

Gabriel de Paz still dreams that he’s running from the dictator’s soldiers. Guatemalan civil war survivor Gabriel de Paz, 62, moves through a bus on the way to a ceremony marking the anniversary of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt’s genocide conviction. Tema’s mother, Claudia, said that Ríos Montt “has nothing to do” with his daughter’s candidacy and that she doesn’t think …

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‘Hope never dies’: Venezuelan migrants disappear in Colombia
1 year, 6 months ago

‘Hope never dies’: Venezuelan migrants disappear in Colombia

Al Jazeera  

Human rights groups say the state is not doing enough to find hundreds of Venezuelans who have gone missing in Colombia. Still contemplating what might have happened to her son, she holds onto one clue: “His coworker had heard that the rebels took him.” According to the Colombian attorney general’s office, 288 Venezuelans have been reported as victims of forced …

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El Salvador prisoner ‘rearrests’ fuel new concerns
1 year, 10 months ago

El Salvador prisoner ‘rearrests’ fuel new concerns

Al Jazeera  

Growing number of people detained in gang crackdown being ‘rearrested’, experts say, raising fears policy will not end. Usulutan, El Salvador – For the past five months, Marcela Alvarado has made an almost daily pilgrimage to different Salvadoran government offices demanding her son Jose Duval Mata Alvarado’s release. But now, the police workers union and human rights groups have said …

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Everything wrong with the Qatar World Cup
2 years ago

Everything wrong with the Qatar World Cup

The Independent  

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Greater discrimination within jobs There are around 175,000 domestic workers in Qatar, …

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Philippine police: New drug crackdown leads to less killings
2 years, 1 month ago

Philippine police: New drug crackdown leads to less killings

Associated Press  

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine authorities have killed 46 drug suspects and arrested more than 22,000 others under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s campaign, the national police chief said Monday, and added the lower death toll underscores efforts to avoid lethal force. Marcos Jr., who took office in June, has vowed to press on with his predecessor’s crackdown on illegal drugs, which …

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To China’s fury, UN accuses Beijing of Uyghur rights abuses
2 years, 3 months ago

To China’s fury, UN accuses Beijing of Uyghur rights abuses

Associated Press  

BEIJING — The U.N. accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to “crimes against humanity” in a long-delayed report examining a crackdown on Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups. “It’s a really long-awaited recognition of the Uyghurs and their unimaginable suffering, coming from the world’s most authoritative voice on human rights.” Human rights groups, the U.S., …

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Potential ‘crimes against humanity’ in China’s Xinjiang, UN says
2 years, 3 months ago

Potential ‘crimes against humanity’ in China’s Xinjiang, UN says

Al Jazeera  

Long-delayed report from UN human rights office says abuses against mostly Muslim Uighurs stem from ‘anti-terrorism law systems’. China’s detention of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang may amount to “crimes against humanity”, the United Nations human rights office said in a long-delayed report that was finally published late on Wednesday. Bachelet’s report …

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