Human Rights

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Jul 6 (PTI) A woman was found hanging at her in-laws' house in a village of the Khatoli area here, with her family alleging that she was killed over dowry, police said on Tuesday.

Police have booked Shital's husband Vishal, father-in-law Vikram Singh and three others in the case.

According to police, the incident took place at Dahod village on Monday and the victim' family alleged that she was being harassed for dowry by her in-laws, who were demanding a car and other things.

Mumbai, Jul 5 (PTI) Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died on Monday while waiting for an interim bail on medical grounds.

Dr Ian D'souza, director of the Mumbai-based Holy Family Hospital, the private facility where Swamy was undergoing treatment, and the activist's lawyer Mihir Desai informed a bench of the Bombay High Court of his death following cardiac arrest.

PARIS (AP) — Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders has put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on its list of “predators,” the first time a Western European leader has been placed in the lineup of heads of state or government who “crack down massively” on press freedom.

The list published Monday includes 37 leaders.

05 July 2021; MEMO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune stressed on Sunday that he will not give up on the "memory file" related to the crimes committed by France during the colonial era (1830-1962), Anadolu has reported. Tebboune made this clear in a message to the Algerian people on the 59th anniversary of Algeria's independence from France published on Facebook.

05 July 2021; MEMO: The head of Hamas in the diaspora, Khaled Meshaal called, for Saudi Arabia on Sunday to release Palestinian prisoners and resume relations with the movement. Meshaal made his comments on Al Arabia TV.

05 July 2021; MEMO: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that over the past two weeks, Israel has demolished, seized, or forced the demolition of 24 Palestinian-owned structures across the occupied West Bank under the pretext that they lacked building permits.

Srinagar, Jul 5 (PTI) The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Monday expressed disappointment over the outcome of the recent all-party meeting on J-K chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying there was lack of substantial confidence building measures like release of political and other prisoners.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament is set to vote Monday on whether to renew a temporary law first enacted in 2003 that bars Arab citizens of Israel from extending citizenship or even residency to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

Critics, including many left-wing and Arab lawmakers, say it’s a racist measure aimed at restricting the growth of Israel’s Arab minority, while supporters say it’s needed for security purposes and to preserve Israel’s Jewish character.

02 July 2021; MEMO: The US State Department has criticised Israel for not making significant effort to combat human trafficking or meet international standards to combat trafficking.

03 July 2021; MEMO: Parallels between Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation with black Americans fighting for civil rights in the US were made by American Congressman Andre Carson in a recent interview with the Haaretz. The Representative from Indiana, one of only four Muslims ever elected to Congress, described how his support for Palestinians is rooted in his experience as a black person growing up in America and spoke at length about the racism he saw during his three visits to Israel.