Human Rights

Mau (UP) Jul 17 (PTI) A one-and-a-half-year old girl was allegedly raped by a man here, police said on Saturday.

The man took the minor girl away on the pretext of buying her toffees on Friday night. He took her to a secluded spot and allegedly raped her. He later left the girl outside her house and fled, police said, quoting the complaint from the victim's family.

According to the police, a crowd immediately gathered at the spot and the man was also identified. The police reached the spot and later arrested the accused, officials said.

17 July 2021; MEMO: Amnesty International today urged the Ethiopian authorities to end arbitrary detention of Tigrayans, Anadolu Agency reports.

In a statement, the global human rights watchdog said: "The arrests appear to be ethnically motivated, with former detainees, witnesses and lawyers describing how police checked identity documents before arresting people and taking them to detention centres."

17 July 2021; MEMO: Following Israeli lobbying for intensifying raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas warned Israel not to test its patience because it is ready to defend the Palestinian holy sites, land and property.

17 July 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has urged the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the international community on Friday to put pressure on Israel to rein in its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Jerusalem and Area C.

Srinagar, 16 July 2021: Two Kashmiris were killed on Friday by Indian security forces in Srinagar of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

16 July 2021; MEMO: Israel's Beitar Jerusalem Football has cancelled a friendly match against Barcelona after the Spanish club said it would not play the game in Jerusalem.

Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, Sami Abu Shehadeh, said the Palestinian people's vigilance prevented a great propaganda victory for the racist Beitar Jerusalem FC, explaining that the decision came after extensive Arab and Palestinian pressure in cooperation with the Barcelona fans earlier this month.

16 July 2021; MEMO: Britain's role in fuelling the Saudi-led war in Yemen is much greater than earlier thought, according to a new report by the UK-based organisation Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). More than three times as much weaponry and military equipment was sold to Riyadh over the past six years when one of the worst humanitarian crises since the Second World War was unfolding in the Arabian republic following a Saudi aggression.

16 July 2021; MEMO: Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, the European Union's top court said today, in two cases brought by Muslim women in Germany who were suspended from their jobs after they started wearing the Islamic garment, Reuters reports.

16 July 2021; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces yesterday bulldozed the largest Canaanite cemetery in Palestine, located in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, the Palestinian Information Centre reports.

16 July 2021; MEMO: Palestinian children in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan have been traumatised by Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign, including threats to demolish their homes.

In a video report, the Maydan Al-Quds TV channel showed children who said they were afraid of displacement and are haunted by the idea of losing their homes and memories.