Human Rights

Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Iran’s judicial authorities are violating fair trial standards in the case of eight environmentalists who have been detained for over a year, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should immediately open an impartial and transparent investigation into the torture allegations the accused have raised during the trial. On January 30, […]

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Why Saudi Regime Murdered Journalist Khashoggi in a Consulate

The Conversation

By Victoria Reyes | – Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered by an alleged Saudi “hit squad” whose members have close ties to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Embed from Getty Images“An undated recent file picture shows prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who resigned suddenly on May 16, 2010 in Riyadh from the […]

Displaced and Refugees

The Surprising Successes of Community Work with Muslim Refugees in Germany

Frances Trix

(Informed Comment) – The year after the recent influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan into Europe, I went to see how communities across Germany were responding. Chancellor Angela Merkel had said all communities in Germany must take 1.5 percent of their populations in asylum-seekers, so there were all manner of programs. I went […]

Displaced and Refugees

Trump Deporting undocumented Iraqis at risk of Arrest, Torture in Iraq

Human Rights Watch

(Beirut) – The United States government has deported at least 30 of a planned 1,400 people originally from Iraq back to their country, in some cases threatening long imprisonment if they don’t consent, Human Rights Watch said today. In all cases that Human Rights Watch is aware of, the deportees lack valid identity documents, putting […]

War Crimes

From Yemen to the Rohingya, Mass Atrocities against Civilians are the New Normal

Human Rights Watch

By Philippe Bolopion | – ( Human Rights Watch) – This month we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion, we have asked Human Rights Watch experts to reflect on some of the key human rights challenges in their area of specialty. There is no more daunting […]

Displaced and Refugees

Jerusalem in Athens: Refugees, the Youth Left and the Crises of Nation and Capital

Loubna Qutami

In the heart of Athens Exarchia Square, a Palestinian refugee youth from Ein El-Hilwa refugee camp in Lebanon sits to tell me of the sobering reality offering refugee support services in Greek camps has taught him. By now, Exarchia has cleared of the international volunteers who come for the summer to offer “help” and of […]

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University of Michigan Professor Disciplined for Refusing to Write Student Recommendation Letter

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October 16, 2018 Committee on Academic Freedom Middle East Studies Association of North America Elizabeth R. Cole Interim Dean College of Literature, Science and the Arts University of Michigan ecole@umich.edu Dear Dean Cole: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express […]

Human Rights

Cologne: 10,000 to Protest Turkey’s Erdogan on Human Rights

AFP

by Michelle FITZPATRICK | – Cologne (Germany) (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to open one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne on Saturday as he wraps up a controversial visit to Germany, with police deploying in force amid planned protests. The inauguration will be the closing event of Erdogan’s three-day state […]

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Today, Europe Lost the Internet. Now, We Fight Back

Cory Doctorow

( Electronic Frontier Foundation) – Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like tweets and Facebook updates; […]