Human Rights

12 July 2021; MEMO: Egypt's highest criminal court has upheld the life sentences issued against ten senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the group's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie. The life sentences were issued over their alleged role in helping foreign militias penetrate the country's eastern border amid the 2011 uprising to create chaos and bring down the Egyptian state and its institutions.

12 July 2021; MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities announced a number of measures on Monday morning as part of easing the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.

On the Facebook page of the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Occupied Territories, Israel announced expanding the fishing zone in the Gaza Strip from nine to 12 nautical miles as of Monday.

The coordinator stated that this came following the recent calm and after assessing the general security situation.

12 July 2021; MEMO: New details of alleged torture of prominent political activists detained in Saudi prisons have emerged, confirming widespread abuse and mistreatment that were reported by rights groups and media agencies over the past few years as the kingdom – under Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman – adopted a heavy-handed approach towards critics and dissidents.

12 July 2021; MEMO: Israeli forces prevented the access of a relief aid truck transporting humanitarian and food supplies to Palestinians in the northern occupied Jordan Valley. The truck was going to the residents of Khirbet Humsah Al-Foqa, a community which was demolished a few days ago by the Israeli forces for the seventh time this year.

12 July 2021; MEMO: Israel will withhold $180 million in tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to offset money transfers going to families of Palestinian prisoners and martyrs, the Israeli cabinet announced yesterday.

According to Wafa news agency, the decision to freeze the funds came after a report from Israel's Defence Ministry that the PA transferred $180 million "in indirect support of terrorism in 2020."

12 July 2021; MEMO: Sheikh Raed Salah has been in solitary confinement since he was detained in August 2020 and his basic needs, including being provided a blanket, family visits, access to the news and books, have been violated, his lawyer has said.

12 July 2021; MEMO: The size of England's growing problem with racism came to light once again following its defeat against Italy in the finals of the Euro 2020. Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, three of the country's promising players of black heritage, all missed from the penalty spot last night, triggering a torrent of racial abuse.

Delhi; 13 July 2021 (UMMN): A France-headquartered international non-profit and non-government organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), that aims to safeguard the right to freedom of information, has placed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in its list of “Predators of Press Freedom”.

12 July 2021; MEMO: The dead body of Suha, the daughter of the iconic PFLP leader Khalida Jarrar, has been found near Palestine medical complex in Ramallah.

Srinagar, Jul 11 (PTI) The National Conference (NC) on Sunday denounced the dismissal of 11 government employees by the Jammu and Kashmir administration, saying the move was "blind to justice" and "arbitrary" in nature.

The employees, including sons of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin who has been designated a global terrorist by the US, were sacked by the union territory's administration for allegedly working for various terror groups, officials had said on Saturday.