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| The Sudanpage A BREAKING: 15 protesters have been a massacre by the Security Forces | ||||
The Sudanpage A BREAKING: 15 protesters have been a massacre by the Security Forces today's March in Sudan Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-Today has been the most violent and brutal day of the Sudan Coup so far, and this is not including the deaths and injuries that will not be heard of due to the total phone and internet black out. Over 100 protesters have been injured, a significant number of them with headshot wounds. The Forces are not shooting to scare, they are shooting to kill.... | ||||
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| Saudi Arabia: Release 10 Egyptian Nubian men detained without charge | ||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm: - The Saudi Arabian authorities must immediately release and drop all charges against 10 Egyptian Nubian men who have been detained without charge for 16 months merely for trying to organize a remembrance event, Amnesty International said today. The organization is calling for their release ahead of their first hearing before the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh on 10 November 2021.“It is a travesty that the Saudi Arabian authorities have... | ||
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| Libya: New government must prioritize human rights and tackle impunity crisis | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Libya’s recently installed Government of National Unity (GNU) must address the human rights crisis across the country, break the cycle of impunity and re-establish rule of law, Amnesty International said today.In a letter to the GNU, which has faced tremendous challenges since taking office in mid-March to unify institutions in a deeply divided and conflict-torn country, the organization highlighted key areas that the new government must urgently... | ||||
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| Afghanistan: International community must act decisively to avert further tragedy | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Responding to the collapse of the Afghan government following the seizure of power by the Taliban and the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as thousands of people attempt to leave the country, Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said:“What we are witnessing in Afghanistan is a tragedy that should have been foreseen and averted. It will only be compounded further without swift and decisive action from the international... | ||||
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| USA/UK: US authorities must drop politically motivated charges against Assange | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Ahead of the preliminary appeal hearing in London’s High Court tomorrow on the decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the US, Amnesty International has renewed its call on US authorities to drop the charges against him. The organisation’s Europe Director, Nils Muižnieks, said:“This attempt by the US government to get the court to reverse its decision not to allow Julian Assange’s extradition on the basis of new diplomatic assurances... | ||||
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| Saudi Arabia: Authorities ramp up repression after G20 hiatus | ||||
Saudi Arabian authorities have brazenly intensified the persecution of human rights defenders and dissidents and stepped up executions over the past six months, following a lull in prosecutions of activists and a sharp decline in use of the death penalty during Saudi Arabia’s G20 presidency last year, said Amnesty International in a new briefing published today. Saudi Arabia’s post-G20 crackdown on expression documents how since Saudi Arabia handed over the G20 presidency, authorities... | ||||
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| Boy, 14, arrested for anti-LGBTQ+ attack in Amstelveen | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -The Amsterdam police arrested a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday for the assault of a gender-neutral teen in Amstelveen on Monday. The arrested boy is from Amstelveen, the police said on Twitter. More arrests may follow. According to the victim's father, 14-year-old Frédérique was attacked in a playground in Amstelveen Westwijk after they refused to tell a group of boys whether they were a boy or a girl. The young victim was left with... | ||||
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| Pegasus Project: Princess Latifa and Princess Haya listed as potential targets by clients of spyware company NSO Group | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -New evidence uncovered by the Pegasus Project has revealed that the phone numbers of Emirati princesses Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum and Haya bint Hussein were listed as potential targets by clients of spyware company NSO Group in the 50,000 numbers leaked in the Pegasus Project investigation. Director of Amnesty Tech, Rasha Abdul Rahim, said:“These shocking revelations appear to implicate NSO Group in the catalogue of human rights violations... | ||||
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| THE ISRAELIAN COMPANY NSO GROUP'S SPY PROGRAM IS USED AGAINST ACTIVITIES AND JOURNALISTS | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Project Pegasus is a pioneering collaboration between 80 journalists in 10 countries coordinated by the French non-profit organization Forbidden Stories. Amnesty has contributed technical knowledge for advanced forensic tests on mobile phones in order to identify traces of spyware.- Project Pegasus reveals how the company NSO Group's spy program is used by repressive states in an attempt to silence journalists, attack activists and dissidents... | ||||
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| Massive data leak reveals Israeli NSO Group's spyware used to target activists, journalists, and political leaders globally | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: - NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale, according to a major investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi’s family.The Pegasus Project lays bare how NSO’s spyware is a weapon of choice for repressive governments seeking to silence journalists,... | ||||
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| Egypt: Commute Death Sentences for Rab’a Protestors | ||||
Leading Opposition Figures Convicted in Unfair Mass TrialLeading Opposition Figures Convicted in Unfair Mass Trial A volunteer tends to an injured demonstrator in front of a police armored personnel carrier (APC) in Rab’a Square in Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2013 Click to expand Image A volunteer tends to an injured demonstrator in front of a police armored personnel carrier (APC) in Rab’a Square in Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2013. That day, Egyptian police and... | ||||
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| How Egypt weaponizes counter terrorism laws to target human rights defenders | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: - Egyptian human rights defenders and UN experts examine how authorities in Egypt have weaponized counter terrorism laws to target activists and human rights defenders, and measures the international community can take to investigate the country's grave human rights violations.This statement was originally published on cihrs.org on 28 June 2021. An online event on Egypt was held on the sidelines of the 47th Session of the United Nations... | ||||
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| IHD Developments launches Vivid Business Tower in New Capital | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: - IHD Developments has launched its first project dubbed “Vivid Businesss Tower” in the New Administrative Capital (NAC). It is a commercial project located in the NAC’s Downtown area.In a press conference on Thursday, IHD Developments Chairperson Hossam Al-Akshar said that the project’s general plan has been approved and licenses are being issued, adding that they are planning to begin construction in the coming days. Al-Akshar... | ||||
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| Egypt: Retry 36 men facing execution following unfair trials by emergency courts | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Despite the lifting of Egypt’s state of emergency, at least 36 men remain at risk of execution following convictions by grossly unfair emergency courts, Amnesty International said today. The organization is aware of at least two men who were executed after unfair trials by emergency courts in the past three years and calls for the 36 men to be granted re-trials that meet international fair trial standards without recourse to the death penalty. | ||||
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| Sudan: Halt unnecessary force against protesters and investigate deadly shootings | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm: - Sudanese authorities must stop security forces from using unnecessary, including lethal, force against protesters opposed to the military takeover, withdraw the military from law-enforcement operations, and respect the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, said Amnesty International after it confirmed the killing of at least six protesters on 25 October. Further protests are expected on Saturday.Security forces killed at least six men and wounded... | ||||
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| Russia: Kremlin designates Dozhd TV “foreign agent” in yet another attack on press freedom | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm: - Reacting to the news that Russia’s Ministry of Justice has branded Dozhd TV, one of the last remaining independent television channels in Russia, Vazhnye Istorii, an investigative online media organization, and seven journalists as “foreign agents,” Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Moscow Office Director, said:“These latest designations further prove that the Kremlin is unleashing its repressive “foreign agents” law against... | ||||
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| Ethiopia: Troops and militia rape, abduct women and girls in Tigray conflict – new report | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Women and girls in Tigray were targeted for rape and other sexual violence by fighting forces aligned to the Ethiopian government, Amnesty International said today in a new report into the ongoing Tigray conflict.The report, ‘I Don't Know If They Realized I Was A Person’: Rape and Other Sexual Violence in the Conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, reveals how women and girls were subjected to sexual violence by members of the Ethiopian National Defense... | ||||
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| Nepal: Indigenous peoples the silent victims of country’s conservation ‘success story’ | ||||
Nepal’s Indigenous peoples have suffered a litany of human rights violations over the past five decades as a result of abusive conservation policies, said Amnesty International and the Community Self-Reliance Centre (CSRC), in a new report published today.The report, Violations in the name of conservation, documents how the establishment of National Parks and other “protected areas” has resulted in tens of thousands of Indigenous peoples being forcibly evicted from their ancestral... | ||||
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| Iran: Secret execution of young man arrested at 15 a cruel assault on child rights | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: - Iranian authorities have secretly executed a young man who was a child at the time of his arrest and had spent nearly a decade on death row, Amnesty International has learned. Sajad Sanjari was hanged in Dizelabad prison in Kermanshah province at dawn on 2 August, but his family were not told until a prison official asked them to collect his body later that day. In August 2010, police arrested Sajad Sanjari, who was then 15, over the fatal... | ||||
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| Lebanon: One year on from devastating Beirut explosion, authorities shamelessly obstruct justice | ||||
Lebanese authorities have spent the past year shamelessly obstructing victims’ quest for truth and justice following the catastrophic port explosion in Beirut, said Amnesty International ahead of the one-year anniversary of the blast.More than 217 people were killed and 7,000 injured when 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut’s port on 4 August 2020. The blast displaced 300,000 people and caused widespread destruction and devastation, damaging buildings up to 20km away.... | ||||
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| Tunisia: Human rights must be upheld following suspension of parliament | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Tunisian President Kais Saied should publicly commit to respecting and protecting human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, after he suspended parliament and assumed some judicial powers, said Amnesty International.Concerns that human rights are at risk have heightened following an alarming raid by security forces on Al Jazeera’s office in Tunis today and the president’s threats during... | ||||
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| Libya: Horrific violations in detention highlight Europe’s shameful role in forced returns | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Fresh evidence of harrowing violations, including sexual violence, against men, women and children intercepted while crossing the Mediterranean Sea and forcibly returned to detention centres in Libya, highlights the horrifying consequences of Europe’s ongoing cooperation with Libya on migration and border control, said Amnesty International in a report published today.'No one will look for you': Forcibly returned from sea to abusive detention... | ||||
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| Covid-19: Four million death toll must spur governments and companies into action | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Reacting to the news that four million people have now died globally from Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard, said:“At least four million lives have now been lost to Covid-19. This devastating milestone must spur richer governments and companies into immediate action. How many more millions must die before the knowledge and technology to produce enough vaccines for everyone... | ||||
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| 10 Benefits of Battle Ropes-HOIST & How to perform BATTLE ROPES Fitness Exercise | ||||
Middle East Today / Sweden / Stockholm: -Battle Ropes are a great functional exercise with many variations for strengthening the arms and core. Battle rope routines have many variations. Once a client’s fitness level increases, you can add lateral or squat movements to the exercise.MUSCLE GROUPS TARGETED: - Arms, Shoulders, Core HOW TO PERFORM BATTLE ROPES: To enter the starting position, clients face the machine and take the battle ropes in a firm grip and... | ||||
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 in Rab’a Square in Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2013. That day, Egyptian police and army forces opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators who had been staging an open-ended sit-in calling for the re-instatement of former president Mohamed Morsy, and violently dispersed the demonstration, killing at least 817 people. © 2013 Associated Press)
