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Archives: Human Rights
Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?
By James Sweeney | (The Conversation) | - - Just days after an alleged chemical attack killed and injured scores of civilians in Douma, Syria, the US, UK and France agreed in…
Egypt fines Press for alleging Sisi vote-buying
Breaking News added by Informed Comment: Egyptian Security Police have raided the website of the offices of Masr al-Arabia and arrested its editor, apparently over the newspaper's reporting of Sisi vote-buying. -…
Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen
By Helen Lackner | (OpenDemocracy.net) | - - . . . [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was the brain behind the coalition originally intended to return to power [in Yemen]…
Trump’s Fascination with appointing War Criminals to High Office
Via Tomdispatch.com By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - A barely noticed anniversary slid by on March 20th. It’s been 15 years since the United States committed the greatest war…
Before phony polls, Egypt arrests, expels Times reporter Bel Trew
Middle East Monitor | - - Egypt has deported a British journalist working for The Times, the newspaper said on Saturday, describing an “increasingly oppressive environment” for media in the country ahead…
Turkey: Mass Deportations of Syrians to dangerous Areas
Human Rights Watch | - - EU Should Raise Issue, Pledge Aid at Conference (Brussels) – Turkish security forces have routinely intercepted hundreds, and at times thousands, of asylum seekers at the…
From Dead Spies to Dead Syrian Villagers, Russian Denialism on Chemical Attacks
By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com) | - - Russia's RT links the Skripal poisoning to British jealousy over hosting of the World Cup There's something uncannily familiar about Russia's propaganda antics…
CIA Cables detail New Director’s Role in Torture at Thailand Black Site (Redacted)
Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Oversee torture at Thai black site but Not of Abu ZubaydahOn Feb. 22, 2017, ProPublica published a story that inaccurately described Gina Haspel’s role in…
Western Man jailed for “insulting” UAE online
Middle East Monitor | - - A 39-year-old teacher has been jailed and forced “to sign a fake confession” in the UAE following “an electronic insult” on social media. Christian Wilke was…
The New Censorship: Beware Authoritarian leaders claiming to Fight “Fake News”
By Courtney C. Radsch | (Project Syndicate) | - - Laws meant to curb “fake news” may be well intentioned, but their implementation has been sloppy, with few mechanisms to ensure accountability,…
Anger as Israel begins deportation of African Refugees
By Tanja R. Müller | (The Conversation) | - - Around 20,000 Israelis and African migrants took to the streets in Tel Aviv on February 24, protesting against a government policy of…
Saudi Arabia, UN Human Rights Council Member, Continues Rights Crackdown
By Khalid Ibrahim, executive director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) an independent, non-profit organisation that promotes freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly in the Gulf region and its…
The Age of Total War in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - One of the most distressing take-aways of the Syria War since 2011 is that the United Nations does not work and all the…
Saudi Arabia’s Filthy Lucre & its War on Yemen’s Civilians
By Daniel Martin Varisco | (MENA Tidningen) | - - “Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.” (Titus 1:11) Saudi…
Israel to Deny Benefits for Pro-Boycott Citizens, Local Groups
TeleSur | - - The government will create a blacklist for local individuals and groups known to support the pro-Palestinian boycott movement against Israel. Israel is ramping up its crackdown on the…
Robots, kittens and Netflix: Turkish curbs on the media reach ludicrous levels
By Ozge Ozduzen | (The Conversation) | - - Regulation and censorship mechanisms have recently reached absurd levels in Turkey. Two stark recent examples illustrate the banality of the recent creeping controls.…
Bahrain is even Deporting its own Citizens (Shh, don’t Tell Trump)
Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – Bahraini authorities have deported eight stateless Bahrainis, whom they had previously stripped of their citizenship, since January 29, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today.…
UN: 47,000 displaced By Saudi-led war on Yemen since December
Middle East Monitor | - - Up to 47,000 Yemenis have been displaced to Aden as a result of rising military tensions in Taiz and the Red Sea port governorate Hudaydah, the…