Research And Information Network (RAIN)
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Terror network’s message threatens to target all region’s Christians if Camilia Shehata, Wafa Constantine are not released. By Samer al-Atrush – CAIRO Middle East Online First Published: 2010-11-02 A chilling message from an Iraqi Al-Qaeda group warning Egypt’s Coptic Christians to free two priests’ wives it says converted to Islam and are being held against [...]
Washington under fire over ‘war on terror’, Iraq-Afghan conflicts, Wikileaks revelations. Middle East Online First Published: 2010-10-27 UNITED NATIONS – UN human rights chiefs and experts launched a new offensive on the US conduct of its “war on terror” and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The leaking of 400,000 documents on the Iraq war and [...]
Middle East Monitor MEMO, October 12, 2010 A Palestinian human rights organization has said that a few days ago, the managing authority of Israeli jails began a wide scale transfer campaign among prisoners, particularly in Megiddo, Gilboa, Be’er Sheva, and Shata prisons. In light of this campaign, dozens of prisoners have been moved to different [...]
Breaking the Silence documents testimony of soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza; right-wing group calls on parliament members not to let it win award. By Nir Hasson Haaretz Tue, October 12, 2010 Breaking the Silence, which documents testimony of soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza, has been nominated for [...]
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles Independent – 8 September 2010 Continuing a lifelong habit of putting money where his mouth is, George Soros has announced a gift of $100m (£65m) to Human Rights Watch, the organisation which seeks to monitor abuses of power and to lobby transgressing governments and companies. The billionaire financier – [...]
Middle East Monitor MEMO, September 6, 2010 A Palestinian human rights worker has reported that Israeli forces continue to prevent, Umm Ibrahim, an elderly woman in her 70s, from visiting her son after 14 years on the pretext that she poses as security threat to Israel. Umm Ibrahim had no choice but to find a [...]
Their President of 29 years is very ill. But with no nominated successor, an uncertain future awaits, writes Robert Fisk in Cairo Independent - Tuesday, 24 August 2010 So here comes the latest Egyptian joke about 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak. The president, a keen squash player – how else could he keep his jet-black hair? – [...]
In new bid to defend publishing controversial images, former IDF soldier Eden Abergil writes on Facebook ‘In war there are no rules.’ By Haaretz Service Haaretz Fri, August 20, 2010 Eden Abergil, the former Israel Defense Forces soldier who has been criticized for publishing controversial images on Facebook, allegedly wrote on her Facebook page on [...]
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