Spending on security-related construction doubled in 2017 in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of detaining as many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, an academic analysis of government expenditure has found. Beijing says its “vocational training centres” in Xinjiang teach employment skills and legal[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved legislation which would make it easier for courts to hand death sentences to Palestinians who have killed Israelis or soldiers. While Israel has a law permitting the death penalty, no executions have been carried out since the 1962. Under the current law, the[…]
More than 200 graves containing the corpses of thousands of victims have been discovered in areas formerly controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), a UN report said. The report by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Assistance Mission documented[…]
Jamal Khashoggi’s body was dismembered and put into five suitcases after he was strangled upon entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul last month, according to a report by a Turkish pro-government newspaper. Citing unnamed officials, Sabah reported on Sunday that the suitcases were then taken to the Saudi consul-general’s residence near[…]
Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal on Monday against their conviction on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act. The appeal cited evidence of a police set-up and lack of proof of a crime. “We filed an appeal … because the trial court’s[…]
Egyptian authorities “have stepped up their onslaught against the country’s human rights community by arresting at least 19 human rights lawyers and activists in a series of raids today,” Amnesty International said on Thursday. The leading international rights group explained that: “So far at least eight women and 11 men[…]
At least 14 civilians were killed on Saturday in US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State (IS) group’s last holdout in eastern Syria, a monitor said. “Fourteen civilians, including five children under the age of 18, were killed in the coalition air raids on the villages of Hajin, Sousa[…]
A proposal to create one of the world’s largest marine reserves in a vast area of pristine Antarctic waters has been rejected, prompting concern among conservation groups about the ecosystem’s future. After two weeks of deliberations, Russia, China and Norway on Friday blocked the plan for a 1.8m square kilometres[…]
The Trump administration is set to reimpose all sanctions against Iran that had been lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear agreement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. “On November 5th, the United States will reimpose sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear deal on Iran’s energy,[…]
Pakistani political and religious leader has been killed by unknown attackers at his residence in the northern city of Rawalpindi, according to family members and officials. Sami-ul-Haq, 80, was stabbed to death in his bed on Friday, his son Hamidullah told local television news channel ARY by telephone. “He was[…]
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