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 [...]
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Video: Checkpoint
TheNMCdotcom An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl. Another refers to the Arabs as “animals,” and [...]
Uighur Intellectual Who Won’t Back Down in China
By ANDREW JACOBS The New York Times - August 20, 2010 Ilham Tohti rarely worries about his personal safety here — at least not at the hands of would-be thieves. That is because Mr. Tohti, an economics professor and unofficial spokesman for this country’s embattled Uighur minority, frequently has a police escort. Whether they are looking [...]
Jerusalem: Accused torturer set to head police- Arab relations
by Brian Ennis IMEMC & Agencies - July 28, 2010 ‘Captain George’ a former military interrogator is head of Arab relations for the police in the tense and divided city of Jerusalem. The former military interrogator known as ‘Captain George’ has been appointed the director of Arab affairs for the Jerusalem District Police. The post includes [...]
Amira Hass: The Palestinian Authority is imprisoning Gazans
The same government that includes a call to end the blockade on Gaza, in practice aids in imprisoning the Gazans by preventing them from holding valid Palestinian passports. Haaretz - July 28, 2010 Lies and power go hand in hand. But what is considered outrageous in a sovereign state is catastrophic for a society fighting for its [...]
Blank Spaces Fill World Cup’s Crime Scorecard
By BARRY BEARAK The New York Times - July 6, 2010 JOHANNESBURG — It has been small stuff, mostly. A Swiss man threw a glass of whisky at a Dutch camera crew. A homeless South African stole a blanket from a tourist’s unlocked minivan. A friend of Paris Hilton’s was caught with a marijuana cigarette. A [...]
Is Erdogan Strong Enough to Take on the Generals?
By Daniel Steinvorth DER SPIEGEL - 01 March 2010 Last week’s arrest of military brass amid allegations of a plot against the Turkish government have dealt a serious blow to the country’s secular elite. But some are asking if Prime Minister Erdogan has bitten off more than he can chew.
Islam Channel CEO back in cell
Independent Online – 26 January 2010 The CEO of the UK-based Islam Channel was moved from the hospital to police cells in Pretoria on Tuesday morning, the Media Review Network (MRN) said. “He was there until this morning [Tuesday] when the doctors discharged him and he was taken back to his holding cell at the [...]
US accused of ‘occupying’ Haiti as troops flood in
France accused the US of “occupying” Haiti on Monday as thousands of American troops flooded into the country to take charge of aid efforts and security. By Aislinn Laing, and Tom Leonard in Port-au-Prince. Telegraph - 18 January 2010 The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role [...]
Police stop and search powers ruled illegal
By Geoff Meade, Press Association Independent - 12 January 2010 Police stop and search powers under UK terrorism laws were declared illegal by human rights judges today. The right to question people without grounds for suspicion – granted by the Terrorism Act of 2000 – violates the Human Rights Convention, said the European Court of Human [...]
Israel accuses Chávez of turning Venezuela into an Iranian outpost
El Universal - CARACAS 3 November 2009 Israeli Foreign Affairs Vice-Minister Dani Ayalon accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of having turned Venezuela into an “Iranian outpost in the hemisphere.” “The scope of the Iranian regime does not end in the Middle East. It is global, and also reaches Africa and Latin America,” Ayalon said during a press [...]
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