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Archives: Torture
Amnesty: Hamas Killings, Torture during Gaza Assault were War Crimes
By: Charlie Hoyle | (Ma'an News Agency) -- BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The extra-judicial executions of at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza during Israel's military offensive last summer could amount to war crimes,…
Syrian Opposition, Caught between Assad & Extremists, Despair at World’s Neglect
By Haroro J. Ingram with L. T. Anthony | (The Conversation) | - Syrian civilians are trapped in the middle of a holocaust: prizes in a ruthless contest for popular support and…
Should Formula 1 be held in Major Human Rights Violator Bahrain?
VICE News | - "Formula 1’s annual Bahrain Grand Prix opened April 17 to global fanfare, but demonstrators in the small Gulf kingdom off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia have been…
Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq’s Response
Human Rights Watch | (New York) - Militias, volunteer fighters, and Iraqi security forces engaged in deliberate destruction of civilian property after these forces, following US and Iraqi air strikes, forced the…
Syria: Signs of Popular Backlash Against al-Qaeda
By Robert S. Ford and Tony Ghazal Mouawad | (Informed Comment) As the Syrian civil war drags into its fifth year, the al-Qai'da linked Nusra Front [Support Front] has a reputation as…
Battling Terrorism Shouldn’t Justify Torture, Spying: U.N. Rights Chief
By Thalif Deen | (IPS) UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 2015 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is the legal guardian of scores of human rights treaties banning torture, unlawful imprisonment, degrading treatment…
Saudi’s Barbaric Flogging for Blogging, explained by a Blogger
BBC News | --- "Blogger Raif Badawi has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for criticising Saudi Arabian clerics on his internet blog. British blogger Sunny Hundal said…
Saudis torture jailed Liberal Blogger w/ 1000 lashes for… Blogging
Human Rights Watch | (Beirut) -- More Lashes Pending for Creating Liberal Website, Insulting Religious Authorities King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia should overturn the lashing and prison term for a blogger imprisoned…
What would Happen if the Int’l Criminal Court Indicted Israel’s Netanyahu?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) -- If the International Criminal Court takes up Israeli government actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, it could well find specific officials guilty of breaches of…
Europe Must follow Through on votes in Favor of Palestine Recognition
By John V Whitbeck European parliamentary resolutions urging their governments to recognise the State of Palestine must be followed by actual recognitions of the State of Palestine The European Parliament, after a…
What Ferguson, Eric Garner, and CIA Torture Have in Common
By Shahid Buttar | (Daily Kos) | From black sites to #BlackLivesMatter, it's time to end impunity for criminals with badges. There’s no better way for Washington to commemorate Human Rights Day…
Israel, Egypt Implicated in Torture: Middle East Reactions to Senate Report lament own Involvement
By Juan Cole | -- That the release in Washington of a dense 450 page report on CIA torture conducted a decade ago would provoke massive demonstrations in the Middle East all…
Could ISIL be Put on Trial? Challenge for International Law
DUBAI (IRIN) - The international outcry to the openly advertised atrocities committed in Iraq by the jihadist group calling itself Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS or ISIL) has led to calls for…
Shock & Awe In Syria: It never Works
By Juan Cole The London pan-Arab daily "Hayat" [Life] reports this morning on the air strikes conducted on ISIL positions in Raqqah, Syria, by the United States and several Arab allies. The…
US, UK look other Way as Bahrain Imprisons Dissidents (Maryam al-Khwaja is Latest)
By Nicholas McGeehan via Human Rights Watch Follow @Ncgeehan Many Bahraini activists have borne the brunt of their government’s unjust laws, unfair convictions and unlawful tactics, but few have resisted with such…
Top Things you need to know about the next Israeli-Palestinian crisis
By Hugh Lovatt "Destroying Hamas infrastructure and removing its leaders could also lead to de-centralisation" The abduction and killing of three young Israelis has brought to the fore painful memories for Israelis…
The Fate of Dissenters in Al-Sisi’s Egypt: The New “Disappeared”
By Jihad Abaza As Abdel Fattah el-Sissi assumes his new role as Egypt’s president, enforced disappearances are on the rise in the Middle East’s most populous country, according to a recent press…
Right Said Fred: Syria’s Assad a War Criminal (John Oliver Video)
Right Said Fred (really!) appears on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to tell Syrian president Bashar al-Assad what a dick he is. It's going to be especially disappointing to Assad, as…