Egypt has become “more dangerous” than ever for government critics, according to Amnesty International, which warned that Egyptian activists face an unprecedented attack on freedom of expression under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s government. In a statement on Thursday, on the eve of the eight-year anniversary of the start of Egypt’s[…]
A 16-year-old Israeli settler was arrested on suspicion of throwing a rock that killed a Palestinian mother last October was charged with manslaughter as an act of terror, on Thursday, after his DNA was found on the thrown rock. The 16-year-old from the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, near the northern[…]
Venezuela has plunged further into political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro’s future as the country’s leader. Maduro started a second term on January 10 following a widely-boycotted election last year that many foreign governments refused to recognise. On Wednesday, Juan Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled[…]
Dozens of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists Wednesday morning blocked a highway many have dubbed the “apartheid road,” Route 4370 in the occupied West Bank, which separates Israeli and Palestinian traffic with a 26-foot concrete wall. The activists managed to shut down the highway for 20 minutes before Israeli Border[…]
Sudan, rocked by more than a month of anti-government protests, has received economic assistance from the United Arab Emirates and offers of support from Russia and Turkey, a Sudanese official said on Wednesday. The UAE offered unspecified help, while Russia and Turkey pledged fuel, wheat and other aid, Sudan’s Oil[…]
Human Rights Watch says it has been forced to close half its offices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) due to the security or political risks associated with its work in the region, while the human rights abuses in those countries have only worsened. At the MENA section[…]
Police in India’s northeastern state of Tripura have arrested 31 Muslim Rohingya who were fleeing a recent crackdown by India’s Hindu nationalist government. The group, which included 16 children and six women, was arrested on Tuesday after it was denied entry into Bangladesh and border officials from the two nations[…]
Three men and a teenage boy have been arrested and charged over an alleged plot against a small Islamic community in New York state. The suspects are accused of possessing homemade bombs and firearms, and planning to attack Islamberg, founded by a Pakistani cleric in the 1980s. The alleged plot[…]
Parents of children and staff at Gaza’s Al-Rantisi children’s hospital have been telling Middle East Eye of their fears as the facility comes close to running out of fuel. Gaza’s health ministry warned this weekend that hundreds of patients across the besieged strip face an unknown fate in the coming[…]
Saudi Arabia is planning to deport 250 Rohingya men to Bangladesh, in what will be the second forced deportation by Riyadh this year, an activist group has told Al Jazeera. Saudi Arabia is home to almost 300,000 Rohingya, according to Nay San Lwin, campaign coordinator for the Free Rohingya Coalition,[…]
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