The Egyptian army has arrested a prominent journalist and human rights advocate, prompting condemnation by human rights groups. Military intelligence arrested Hossam Bahgat, an investigative journalist and contributor at the local Mada Masr news outlet, on Sunday morning after delivering a summons to his home on Thursday. According to Mada[…]
A police constable appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday after being caught with drugs and ammunition in her Table View home. The officer was arrested after members of the police’s Anti-Corruption Unit responded to a tip-off and executed a search operation at the 36-year-old woman’s home, said[…]
A charge sheet produced by one of six people arrested outside Parliament during a university fees protest showed the six were to face a charge of high treason before it was dropped upon their appearance in court. Kevin French, 63, who was arrested along with Markus Trengove, Nathan Taylor, Chumani[…]
Israeli security forces have arrested Hassan Yusef, one of Hamas’ top figures in the occupied West Bank, in an overnight raid near Ramallah, the Israeli army said. “During the night, forces of the army and the Shin Bet [internal security service] arrested Hassan Yusef, a Hamas leader, in Beitunia, southwest[…]
Israeli forces detained 26 Palestinians throughout the West Bank overnight Wednesday amid an ongoing crackdown by Israeli authorities in the occupied Palestinian territory. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an all 26 were detained for “illegal activity.” Of those detained, eight were from areas surrounding Nablus, four detained near Ramallah, five[…]
A man is expected to appear in the Beaufort West Magistrate’s Court on Monday for allegedly shooting and wounding an ANC official, Western Cape police said. The 24-year-old allegedly shot ANC Central Karoo regional secretary Windy Plaatjies as he was trying to break up a fight outside the Cosy Corner[…]
A Western Cape police officer, who allegedly prevented her colleagues from arresting a suspect and then helped him escape, has been arrested. The 43-year-old woman is a captain from the Table View police station. Captain FC van Wyk said police had been in the process of arresting a man in[…]
Donning his NASA T-shirt, young Ahmed Mohamed walked into his ninth grade class Monday morning, proudly holding the clock he had meticulously assembled at home. The 14-year-old Muslim American student, with a zeal for assembling, disassembling and fixing radios, computers and go-karts, hoped to draw the praise of his teacher.[…]
US President Barack Obama has issued a White House invitation to a Muslim schoolboy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. Ninth-grade high school student Ahmed Mohamed from Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after his teachers reported him to the police for making a clock, which[…]
A US high school student from Texas has been arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that police officers said resembled a “hoax bomb”. Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old ninth grader at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, said the clock caught the attention of one of his teachers who[…]
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