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February 6, 2015

Reprieve: Mass trial hearing this Sunday for Peter Greste’s young Irish cellmate

An Irish teenager held in the same prison cell as Peter Greste will appear in court on Sunday (8th) in a mass trial of nearly 500 prisoners facing potential execution. Ibrahim...

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February 6, 2015

Gazans protest Egypt court ruling against Qassam

Thousands of Palestinians staged a protest in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Thursday against a recent Egyptian court decision, designating the military arm of Palestinian faction...

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February 6, 2015

66 killed after Syrian regime bombs rebel stronghold

As many as 66 people were killed in the Syrian government’s airstrikes on rebel areas in eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack...

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February 6, 2015

Al-Jazeera anchor: Egypt burnt activists alive before ISIS did

The Al-Jazeera satellite channel anchor Mahmoud Murad called on those who act as human rights guardians to stop their hypocrisy reminding them that the Egyptian authorities burnt activists alive...

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February 6, 2015

Sisi approves 17 new governors

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi yesterday approved 17 new governors to run provinces; the majority of whom are army officers, official source said. The final list of governors was...

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February 6, 2015

Israel: Palestinian resistance operations in the West Bank increased in 2014

Palestinian resistance operations against the Israeli army and settlers increased by 33 per cent in 2014, official Israeli data revealed. The data published by Shin Bet pointed out that...

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February 6, 2015

What sort of Egyptian strategy is this?

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters issued a ruling deeming the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades a terrorist organisation. This revealed the extent to which the justice and status of...

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February 5, 2015

Egypt and Yemen: Scenarios of creative chaos

Those observing the Islamic world can see quite clearly that there are many instances in which the region is currently suffering from cycles of terror and chaos – and...

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February 5, 2015

UN agency: Israel’s “fragmentation” of Bethlehem region has “accelerated”

The Bethlehem region is increasingly fragmented by Israeli occupation policies, according to a new UN agency factsheet. The OCHA publication, ‘Bethlehem governorate: fragmentation and humanitarian concerns’, details ways in...
February 5, 2015

Impartiality, irrelevance and accountability

Israel’s recent complaint against Canadian lawyer and international law expert William Schabas has led to his resignation from the UN Human Rights Council’s fact finding commission on Gaza. Schabas...

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