Human Rights

WASHINGTON, November 4. /TASS/. Russian national Maria Butina, who has recently been released from a US prison, in an interview with CBS said that being in jail was "a torture." The interview was recorded shortly before the Butina’s release.

According to the interviewer, Butina particularly wanted to talk about "the conditions in the Washington DC jail where she was first held." "Cockroaches were everywhere, she claimed. No mattresses or blankets," the interviewed added.

WEST BANK, Palestine, Nov 4 (NNN-MA’AN) – Jewish settlers attacked, this morning, a Palestinian family in the town of Dura, in the southern West Bank and beat its members, despite the presence of Israeli soldiers in the area, according to sources.

Settlers broke into the farming land, west of Dura, located near the Ngihout settlement, forcing the landowners to defend their property.

Israeli settlers have carried out 73 attacks against Palestinians, since the beginning of the olive harvest season, a senior Palestinian Authority official said.

4 Nov 2019; MEMO: An Egyptian network engineer yesterday revealed that the state-owned telecom company, WE Egypt, was spying on its customers for the government.

“I have discovered a new loophole, which WE is using to monitor its customer accounts,” the engineer said in footage on Twitter.

4 Nov 2019; MEMO: The leader of Israel’s Blue and White Party has called for a new round of military offensives against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, Arab48.com reported on Sunday. Benny Gantz also wants a return to the assassination of Palestinian leaders.

4 Nov 2019; MEMO: Israeli forces on Sunday arrested Palestine’s Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi al-Hadami , reported Anadolu Agency via a local source.

Police forces and intelligence agents raided al-Hadami ‘s home in Jerusalem and took him into custody, the source said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

It remains unclear why the minister was arrested.

Bhawanipatna, Nov 3 (PTI) A physically challenged woman was allegedly sexually abused and impregnated by the son of the owner of a house where she was working as a maid in Odishas Kalahandi district, police said on Sunday.

The deaf and dumb woman, aged about 30 years and working as a maid in the house of a person of Badaldeipur village has alleged that she is 7-month pregnant due to sexual abuse by the son of the house owner against her will, the police said.

LONDON, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Two years ago, a peer called on the British government to apologise for the “suffering” of Palestinians, 100 years after the Balfour Declaration.

The UK government’s declaration was the first commitment by a world power to a “Jewish national home” in Palestine.

Lord Warner said, the UK had failed to protect the rights of non-Jewish people in the region and should apologise.

New Delhi, Nov 3 (PTI) The Babri Masjid could have been saved if there was political will to act and the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao did not accept a comprehensive contingency plan of the Home Ministry prepared before the demolition, claims Madhav Godbole who was the Union home secretary that time.

If political initiative had been taken at the prime minister's level, the Mahabharata of this Ramayana could have been avoided, he says in his new book on the Ayodhya dispute.

1 Nov 2019; MEMO: Israeli settlers have carried out 73 attacks against Palestinians since the beginning of the olive harvest season, a senior Palestinian Authority official said yesterday.

Ghassan Daghlas, who is responsible for monitoring settlements in the occupied northern West Bank, said in a statement that the Israeli army forces have also prevented Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands to harvest olives in the areas of Hafar and Naqar in the town of Huwwara; south of Nablus.

1 Nov 2019; MEMO: The Israeli Foreign Ministry has warned the government and security services that the arrest and administrative detention of two Jordanian citizens could lead to a diplomatic crisis with Jordan.

Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said National Security Adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, intends to visit Jordan in the coming days in an attempt to resolve the issue of Hiba Al-Labadi and Abdel Rahman Miri’s detention.