Human Rights

01 Aug 2021; AA: For the third week in a row, anti-vaccine and anti-health pass demonstrations continued in France amid rising COVID-19 infection rates.

Saturday’s protests, according to the Interior Ministry, saw an estimated 184 rallies with 204,090 demonstrators across the country, a figure higher than the previous weeks.

Srinagar, 31 July 2021: Two Kashmiris were killed on Saturday by Indian security forces in Pulwama district of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

Indian Security force’s spokesperson claimed that one of the separatist was of Pakistani origin.

31 July 2021; MEMO: Denmark could face legal action for its attempt to deport Syrian refugees from the country, a report has revealed.

In March, the Danish government declared that the Syrian capital Damascus and the territories under the control of President Bashar Al-Assad are "safe", enabling it to revoke the residency permits of hundreds of Syrian refugees in Denmark.

31 July 2021; MEMO: A German court sentenced a neo-Nazi woman to six years in prison on Friday for planning terror attacks against politicians, mosques, and pro-refugee NGOs in the country, Anadolu Agency reports.

The Higher Regional Court in Munich found Susanne G. guilty of attempting to disturb public peace and making preparations for serious acts of violence in the country by acquiring material to build bombs.

31 July 2021; MEMO: Tunisian security forces arrested a parliament member at his home today, his wife said, after he criticised President Kais Saied on Facebook and called his seizure of governing powers a coup.

Washington, Jul 31 (PTI) Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, which is at the centre of the Pegasus snooping scandal, has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its spyware technology as the firm probes its alleged abuses, according to a US media report.

The alleged use of the Pegasus software to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, politicians and others in a number of countries, including India, triggered concerns over issues relating to privacy.

30 July 2021; MEMO: Harrowing accounts of torture by Saudi officials were filed in a Canadian court recently in the ongoing case involving Riyadh's former top intelligence officer, Saad Al-Jabri. The 63-year-old is locked in a bitter legal battle with the kingdom over alleged embezzlement and misappropriation of state funds, which he denies.

30 July 2021; MEMO: The United Nations (UN) urged Israel on Thursday to investigate the killing of a Palestinian child, Muhammad Muayyad Bahjat Al-Alami, 12, who was shot in the chest near the town of Beit Ummar in the southern West Bank, Anadolu Agency reported.

30 July 2021; MEMO: Following his recent legal victory against anti-Islam activist and founder of the far-right English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, Syrian schoolboy Jamal Hijazi, has pledged to use the money he won in damages to establish a charity for young people.

New Delhi, Jul 30 (PTI) The Supreme Court will next week hear a plea by senior journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar seeking an independent probe by a sitting or a retired judge into the Pegasus snooping matter.

A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana on Friday took note of senior advocate Kapil Sibal's submissions that the petition, which has been numbered after filing with the apex court registry, needed an urgent hearing in view of its wide ramifications.