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February 29, 2016

Deadly conditions of Egyptian hunger striking prisoners

Egyptian prisoner Gehad El-Haddad’s mother has released a testimony about her daughter-in-law’s visit to her son at Al-Aqrab Prison on Facebook on Friday: My daughter-in-law, the wife of Gehad...

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February 29, 2016

Rights groups calls on Oscar winners to visit Palestinian children held in Israeli jails

Hollywood stars have been urged to visit Palestinian children being held in Israeli jails. The human rights organisation Avaaz made the call after Israeli authorities invited 26 Oscar notables...

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February 29, 2016

Media coverage of FIFA needs a shift in priorities

A man who may have ordered footballers in his own country to be tortured runs for the presidency of the most important footballing organisation in the world, and the...

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February 29, 2016

Fatah MP threatens to expose corruption of senior PA officials

Palestinian MP Najat Abu Bakr, whose is wanted by the Palestinian Authority (PA) security services, yesterday threatened to reveal details of the level of corruption of senior PA officials...

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February 29, 2016

French Foreign Minister: Moderate Syrian opposition targeted amid truce

France has called on Monday for an urgent meeting to monitor violations of the truce deal in Syria after receiving reports of attacks targeting the moderate Syrian opposition. “We...

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February 29, 2016

Graffiti in Palestine’s camps

During the First Intifada, with Palestinians often confined to their houses under lengthy curfews the clandestine scrawling of messages on walls in refugee camps, cities and villages became acts...

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February 29, 2016

Arab union calls on EU to withdraw ban on weapons sales to Saudi

Arab Inter-parliamentary Union (AIPU) has called on the European Parliamentary Union (EPU) to withdraw a motion banning its members from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, the Anadolu Agency reported...

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February 29, 2016

Ghannouchi defends security personnel’s right to protest

The leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi on Sunday defended the right of security personnel to protest, following a government decision to initiate legal proceedings against those...

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February 29, 2016

Ex-Hezbollah leader decries group’s position on Syria

Former Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Shia Hezbollah movement, Subhi Al-Tufayli, has called for providing support to the Syrian people against the Russian “invasion” of the war-battered Arab country. After leading...

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February 29, 2016

Israeli democracy is a travesty; just ask the pupils of Abu Al-Nawar School

The 12th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has been a remarkable success, with more than 250 cities worldwide marking the week of solidarity with the Palestinian people. Although it...

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