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January 21, 2015

Human Rights Watch: Rash of deaths in Egyptian police custody

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has highlighted “scores” of deaths in Egyptians in police custody during 2014, accusing authorities of taking “no serious steps either to improve detention conditions or...

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January 21, 2015

Israeli human rights group: Army guilty of ‘indiscriminate attacks’ on Gaza

The Israeli army carried out “indiscriminate attacks” on the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip during last summer’s offensive, an Israeli human rights group has said in a new...

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January 21, 2015

Israel sentences and fines 14-year-old girl

The Israeli military court in Ofer sentenced the imprisoned 14-year-old Malak Al-Khatib, from Betin in Ramallah, to two months in prison and fined her $1,528, the Ahrar Centre for...

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January 21, 2015

Gaza’s children: We deserve our basic human rights

Dozens of children protested at the Port of Gaza today in condemnation of the Israeli blockade that has been imposed on the Gaza Strip for eight years. They called...

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January 21, 2015

33% of government funding for housing is allocated for settlements in the West Bank

Some 28 per cent of housing units that receive government funding from the building department in rural areas over the past four years were built in settlements established in...

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January 21, 2015

German official: Israeli reaction to ICC probe ‘counterproductive’

Top German human rights officials described the Israeli reaction to the ICC investigation into possible Israeli war crimes in Palestinian territories “counterproductive”. In an interview with IPG Journal published...

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January 21, 2015

55 illegal wiretapping operations carried on Erdogan’s phones

Investigations conducted by the Turkish authorities found that 31 encrypted phones which belong to senior state officials were illegally wiretapped 363 times. Number of wiretapping operations by official: President...

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January 21, 2015

Egypt’s coup regime tries to reconcile with the Muslim Brotherhood

Informed sources within the Muslim Brotherhood claim that the Egyptian regime has sought ways and means to reconcile with the movement ever since the coup in July 2013. The...

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January 21, 2015

Accession to the ICC may well be meaningless

“It is a tragic irony that Israel, which has withstood thousands of terrorist rockets fired at its civilians and its neighbourhoods, is now being scrutinised by the ICC.” So...

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January 21, 2015

Tunisia gives blogger one year jail term

A Tunisian military court has sentenced blogger Yassine Ayari to a year in prison for defaming the military, in a case that has been criticised by human rights groups,...

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