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October 5, 2021

Egypt’s chief justice warns rights advocates to ‘stay quiet’

The President of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court has sent a message to human rights advocates to stay silent. “Stay quiet, it is better for you. Egypt is a leading...

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October 5, 2021

Rights groups call on UAE to release advocates during Expo

Seventy-six global rights organisations yesterday called on the United Arab Emirates to release human rights defenders and activists. In a letter addressed to UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed...

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October 5, 2021

Recaptured Palestinian prisoner starts hunger strike

Mohammed Al-Arida, one of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Israel’s high-security Gilboa Prison on 6 September and was recaptured days later, yesterday started an open-ended hunger strike protesting the strict detention...

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October 5, 2021

Gazans are being poisoned slowly, as 97% of water is undrinkable, rights group says

Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are dying slowly as 97 per cent of the water in the coastal enclave is undrinkable, Euro-Med Monitor said yesterday. A joint statement issued by...

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October 5, 2021

Report: Iran, Saudi Arabia agree to look for practical mechanism for Yemen

Saudi and Iranian officials have agreed to look for a practical mechanism for a solution in Yemen, Jadeh Iran website reported yesterday. The site quoted an unnamed Arab diplomatic source as...

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October 5, 2021

Israel destroyed 172,900 homes, expelled 1.3m Palestinians since the Nakba

The Israeli occupation has demolished about 172,900 Palestinian homes, displaced 1,324,000 Palestinians and confiscated 19 million dunums (19,000 square kilometres) of the land of historical Palestine “to bring 5 million Zionist...

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October 5, 2021

The Cairo talks and what is required of Egypt

The Hamas delegation’s visit to the Egyptian capital Cairo is of particular importance, as they will discuss with Egyptian officials a number of files which the Palestinians have high...

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October 5, 2021

Tunisia arrests MP, TV anchor critical of president’s measures

Tunisian security on Sunday raided the home of the Dignity Coalition member MP Abdellatif Alaoui and arrested him on charges of ‘plotting against state security’. In a post on...

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October 4, 2021

What’s next after Abbas’s latest threat?

Every year, Mahmoud Abbas presents us with a speech addressed to the UN, and it is often prefaced by statements from the leaders of the Fatah movement and employees...

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October 4, 2021

Libya’s National Oil Corporation to build new oil refinery

Libya’s Government of National Unity and the National Oil Corporation announced that they will build a new refinery in Sebha, Reuters reports. The new refinery had already been planned...

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