Human Rights

18 Mar 2021; MEMO: Egypt has announced that it regrets the issuance of the joint declaration criticising the human rights situation in Egypt during the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Egypt's Permanent Mission to the UN has stated that it "regrets" "the crude politicisation and "unjustified escalation" in the United Nations Human Rights Council.

18 Mar 2021; MEMO: More than 100 Palestinian homes face demolition and about 1,550 residents, including more than 800 children, will be made homeless at the hands of Israel's Jerusalem Municipality, Arab48 reported yesterday.

This comes as the Israeli municipality cancelled all agreements with the Palestinian residents of the Silwan neighbourhood.

18 Mar 2021; MEMO: An Egyptian court sentenced prominent female activist Sanaa Seif to a year and a half in prison on Wednesday for spreading false news, her sister and judicial sources said, reported Reuters.

17 Mar 2021; MEMO: The Egyptian army has demolished 12,350 buildings in Sinai since 2013, Human Rights Watch revealed yesterday, adding that these demolitions "are violations of international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, and likely amount to war crimes."In a report, the HRW said: "Between late 2013 and July 2020, the army destroyed at least 12,350 buildings, mostly homes, most recently in t

17 Mar 2021; MEMO: A field researcher for Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has been interrogated and warned by the Shin Bet internal security service that he is "making trouble and threatening the army". According to Haaretz, Nasser Nawaj'ah was detained at a military checkpoint between Sussya and Yatta last week while on his way to visit his wife's grandfather, who was hospitalised.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent extremists motivated by a range of political grievances and racial biases pose an “elevated threat” to the United States, officials said Wednesday in an unclassified intelligence report released more than two months after a mob of insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol.

The blunt assessment echoes warnings made in recent weeks by U.S. officials, including FBI Director Christopher Wray, who testified this month that the threat from domestic violent extremism was “metastasizing” across the country.

17 Mar 2021; MEMO: Israel's President Reuven Rivlin and Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi travelled to Europe on Tuesday in order to lobby against the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to open an investigation into possible breaches of international law in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.

17 Mar 2021; MEMO: A Palestinian MP said on Tuesday that Rachel Corrie's blood is a "witness to Israeli crimes". Huda Naim made her comment in a statement issued on the anniversary of the death of the US-born pro-Palestine activist, who was killed on 16 March 2003 as she was trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah.

With the EU summit 2021 nine days away, Turkey's presidential spokesman on Tuesday expressed "hope" for the leadership of EU officials in addressing the migration issue at the summit, Anadolu Agency reported.

Ballia (UP), Mar 16 (PTI) A 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped in a village under Reoti police station area here, police said on Tuesday.

The girl was allegedly kidnapped by a man on Monday and raped, Superintendent of Police Vipin Tada said.

On the complaint of the girl's mother, an FIR was filed against the accused and he was arrested on Tuesday, the SP said.

The girl has been sent for a medical examination and further investigations are on, the SP added.