Human Rights

28 Aug 2021; MEMO: A Tunisian judge has deplored President Kais Saied's appointment of one of "the executioners of the Gafsa mining basin uprising" as head of the Intelligence Directorate at the Interior Ministry on account of his record of human rights violations.

27 Aug 2021; MEMO: An Israeli court has upheld a travel ban imposed upon Palestinian activist Hanadi Al-Halawani, who has been barred from leaving the occupied West Bank to travel abroad until 19 January next year. The renewed ban was handed to her yesterday after she was summoned for interrogation by the Israel Defence Forces in occupied Jerusalem.

28 Aug 2021; MEMO: Chief of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced on Friday that his movement rejects settlement projects for Palestinians in Jordan, news agencies reported.

Haniyeh and former Hamas chief, Khaled Mashaal, visited Amman to attend the funeral of former Hamas official Ibrahim Ghosheh, who passed away at 85 years old.

28 Aug 2021; MEMO: During his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House, US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his administration's plan to reopen the US Consulate General in Jerusalem, news agencies reported on Friday.

At the same time, Biden expressed his opposition to the Israeli evictions of Palestinian families in occupied Jerusalem's neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

28 Aug 2021; MEMO: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to protect human rights and lift the "repressive" steps that have been imposed since he took the exceptional measures declared on 25 July.

27 Aug 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to curb Israel's colonial project in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a statement coinciding with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Washington, the ministry pointed out that this provides a golden opportunity to rein-in the settler-colonial state.

26 Aug 2021; MEMO: Lawyers and campaigners have claimed that British nationals of Afghan origin are not being evacuated from Kabul.

According to the Guardian, roughly 50 dual British-Afghan citizens waved their UK passports outside Kabul airport yesterday but were overlooked for evacuation.

Immigration lawyers have said that they are being treated as second-class citizens in the evacuation efforts.

New Delhi, Aug 26 (PTI) The national convention by farmers to mark completion of nine months of their agitation against the three contentious farm laws began at the Singhu border on Thursday.

The two-day-event that will see participation from 1,500 delegates across organisations of farmers, women, youth, and labourers, is aimed at intensification and expansion of the ongoing movement against the Centre's farm laws.

Srinagar, 24 Aug 2021: Three Kashmiris were killed on Tuseday by Indian security forces in Sopore area of Baramulla district of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

Inspector General of Police, Kashmir zone, Vijay Kumar said the total number of Kasmiris killed in this year has crossed 100.

25 Aug 2021; MEMO: Amnesty International has said that waiving restrictions on US military assistance to Egypt risks America becoming complicit in human rights abuses.

The statement made by the advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa was in response to reported deliberations by the Biden administration to release $300 million of restricted military assistance to Egypt.