ANKARA (AA): Palestine has blasted the international community for its abject failure to mount a strong protest to Israel’s “ethnic cleansing” in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry accused Israel of seeking “to empty Jerusalem and its surroundings of the Palestinian presence.” On Tuesday, the Israeli police forcibly ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has rejected Israel’s criticism of alleged human rights violations in his country, accusing the Zionist state of atrocities against Palestinians for decades. “There is no comparison of Israel’s brutalities and human rights violations against Palestinians. They (I...
Batabo, Syria (AFP): Syrians in the country’s last rebel enclave expressed alarm Wednesday after the United Nations Security Council failed to renew an aid delivery mechanism to the area, imperilling critical humanitarian assistance. The UN largely delivers relief to northwest Syria via neighbouring Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa crossin...
Vilnius, Lithuania (AFP/AA): President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey would not be able to ratify Sweden’s NATO candidacy until at least October because parliament was not in session. “There is a two-month parliament holiday. Of course, it will not be possible to end this holiday before October,” Erdogan told...
GENEVA (AA) – A U.N. official has expressed concern about the high number of criminal convictions of Palestinians. The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese (UN), said that many Palestinians are convicted for ordinary acts, such as protesting or participating in demonstrations. Albanese said the ...
WASHINGTON – Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he was expelled from the league after speaking out against human rights abuses in China. Freedom told Congress on Tuesday he was banned from the NBA after wearing shoes that pointed to Beijing’s persecution of Tibetans and Uyghurs. The NBA’s Chinese affiliate is worth about $5 [...
GENEVA (AA): A UN expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories said on Tuesday that the high number of criminal convictions for Palestinians stems from violations of international law and the criminalization of ordinary acts of life. Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1...
Srinagar, India (AFP): India’s top court has begun considering a challenge to the 2019 imposition of direct rule in Indian Occupied Kashmir, a decision accompanied by mass arrests of Kashmiris and a months-long internet blackout. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government suspended a section of the constitution that guarantees limit...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli police evicted yet another Palestinian family from their home in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday. “Police stormed the house as we were asleep and evicted us from the building,” Ahmed Sub Laban told reporters. Witnesses said police later allowed Israeli settlers into the house in Aqbat al-Khalidiya in Jerusalem’s Old ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to repatriate the Rohingya people to Myanmar. Speaking at an international conference on public health and diplomacy in Dhaka, the premier said the immediate return of Rohingya refugees to their home country is the only durable solution to the longstandin...
