“The 55-page report by the ADMSP details how prison guards, judges, members of the armed forces, and various central government officials have profited from the lucrative ‘business’ of forcing families to pay, not in order to actually see their detained family members, but merely to find out information about their situation.”
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The two Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia and Qatar have reached what appears to be an amicable end to their three-year-long diplomatic spat.
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UK government pressed to explain why civilian deaths excluded from record of humanitarian breaches
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"Several women have been killed after the Iranian-backed Houthis reportedly fired an artillery shell from the eastern part of the city of Hodeida..."
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“Abu Aram was shot in the neck from a close distance as he and other Palestinians were attempting to retrieve the generator from the soldiers."
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“Her disappearance came days after her sister Rushan Abbas took part in a panel on China at the Hudson Institute in Washington exposing conditions in the XUAR’s network of internment camps, where up to 1.8 million Uyghurs are believed to have been held.”
Read More »MCB pursues legal action against Sri Lankan government for forced cremations
“The MCB taskforce has written to the Foreign Secretary and the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to request an immediate reversal of this ‘forced cremation’ policy and highlight its impact on Muslim and Christian communities.”
Read More »Indian Army captain ‘planted weapons’ on deceased Kashmiri civilians
In a rare move, Indian police have filed charges against an army officer as well as two civilians for planting guns on the corpses of three Kashmiri labourers shot and killed in July earlier this year.
Read More »Libya: Khalifa Haftar threatens war with Turkey
On the 69th anniversary of Libyan independence, the brutal military commander and head of the so-called ‘Libyan National Army’, Khalifa Haftar made a direct threat to Turkey and ordered his militias to prepare for a war.
Read More »Bangladesh continues forced transfer of Rohingya to remote island
“My family didn’t want to go, they are taking them by force... If my family go there, to the island, they will die because of floods...”
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