Human Rights

15 Apr 2023; MEMO: The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced on Friday that Marwan Barghouti had entered his 22nd year in Israeli prisons, Sama News Agency reported.

"Despite the long years in prison, Barghouti is still resilient and believes in freedom and the end of the Israeli occupation," the commission stated.

15 Apr 2023; MEMO: Dozens of Tunisians demonstrated in Kairouan province (central Tunisia) to express their outrage following the death of former footballer Nizar Issaoui, who set himself on fire in response to humiliation by police officers.

14 Apr 2023; MEMO: The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs yesterday warned Israel against restricting Christian access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in occupied Jerusalem and reducing the number of those able to take part in the Holy Saturday festivities.

14 Apr 2023; MEMO: Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets across Iran on Friday to mark Al-Quds Day, an annual event to reaffirm solidarity with the people of Palestine, Anadolu News Agency reports.

In the capital, Tehran, people marched from different parts of the city and converged at the University of Tehran, carrying banners and posters with pro-Palestine messages and chanting slogans against Israel and the US.

14 Apr 2023; MEMO: UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has written to Russia, Ukraine and Turkiye to raise concerns about the implementation of a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a UN spokesman said on Friday, Reuters reports.

12 Apr 2023; MEMO: Egypt's House of Representatives yesterday strongly condemned the recent Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan.

"Last Wednesday, everyone woke up to a reprehensible scene and a picture of the repeated Israeli violations of the sanctity of the holy places,"  Parliament Speaker Hanafy El-Gebaly said at the beginning of the parliament meeting.

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: Canada's Citizen Lab yesterday revealed that a new Israeli spyware similar to the notorious Pegasus program was used to target journalists and opposition politicians in several countries.

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has published two papers in which it is said that food has been weaponised by Israel in order to force Palestinians to abandon their legitimate rights. The papers were prepared by the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) and detail the nature, degree and impact of Israeli violence on Jordanian and Palestinian food systems.

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: The foreign ministers of Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan, on Thursday, held the US and its allies, who hastily withdrew from Afghanistan in 2020, responsible for the country's "disastrous situation", Anadolu News Agency reports.

The four officials held an informal meeting on the sidelines of a conference of the foreign ministers of Afghanistan's neighbouring countries in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: A Yemeni man held in Guantanamo Bay for over 20 years without charge or trial will remain in detention despite a US court ruling that he does not pose a threat to the country. In an opinion yesterday over the ongoing case of Abdulsalam Al-Hela, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the authorities may not be allowed to keep a man imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay after he is no longer deemed a threat.