Human Rights

Channel 4 News “A court in Iran has sentenced a British-Iranian woman to a year in prison because she tried to go to a men’s volleyball match. Iranian law bans women from attending men’s sporting events.” Iran jail woman for trying to watch men’s volleyball match | Channel 4 News

Iraq

Video: ISIL Pedophiles discuss Buying Minor Sex Slaves

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via BReaking News “IS fighters talk about which female slaves to buy and sell ‘A new video has emerged showing IS fighters negotiating prices for female slaves . Footage shows ISIS fighters attending slave girl market – Disturbing: The clip begins with this bearded Islamic State fighter explaining it is . IS fighters talk about […]

Human Rights

Iraq: Lawless Islamic State Group In Mosul Targets Attorneys, Judges

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Special Correspondent | Mosul | via Niqash When Sunni Muslim extremists took over Mosul in early June, they closed local courts and set up their own quasi-religious system of justice. They also put thousands of Mosul’s lawyers out of work. For those who didn’t flee the city, there was worse to come: judges have already […]

Apartheid

Israel’s Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year

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World Bank “If businesses and farms were permitted to develop on Area C land, 61 percent of the West Bank, it would add as much as 35% to the Palestinian gross domestic product.” World Bank: “Area C and the Future of the Palestinian Economy

Apartheid

Israeli Forces open fire on Palestinian Qalandia Demonstrators, Wounding 8

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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Eight Palestinians were injured on Friday after Israeli forces opened fire on demonstrators during clashes following Friday prayers near the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Several Palestinians were also injured by rubber-coated steel bullets and dozens suffered from suffocation from inhaling tear gas as Israeli soldiers fired large number of tear-gas grenades […]

Apartheid

“Pilot Program” of Segregated Buses banning Palestinians in Israel

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AJ+ “The defense minister [Moshe Ya’alon] … hasn’t issued a blanket ban but believes integrated buses are “a recipe for a terror attack.” So he’s launched a pilot program of segregated buses between Israel and the West Bank for “security considerations.” AJ+ “Israel Bans Palestinians From Riding Buses”

Barack Obama

Nobel Peace Laureates to Obama: Bring use of torture into the light of day, Never to return

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By Jon Queally via Commondreams.org Twelve Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written to President Barack Obama asking the US to close the dark chapter on torture once and for all. Twelve fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written an open letter to President Barack Obama, urging the 2009 recipient of the award to finally close […]

censorship

Egypt’s War on NGOs: 23 Youth sentenced to 3 Years Hard Labor for Peaceful Protests

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Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – A Cairo court of minor offenses handed down three-year sentences to 23 people for breaking an anti-protest law that allows Egyptian authorities broad powers to ban or disperse most public demonstrations. One of those sentenced on October 20, 2014, Yara Sallam, is a researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal […]

Apartheid

Israeli restrictions on movement strangle Palestinian life

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By Daoud Kuttab “My homeland is not a suitcase and I am not a traveler,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. But for many Palestinians living in the besieged homeland, the right to movement guaranteed in the University Declaration of Human Rights (Article 13) is just ink on paper. I met last week in Beirut a […]