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UN report accuses Palestinian Authority of torture and ill-treatment of civilians

INTERNATIONAL The Palestinian Authority is responsible for the torture and ill-treatment of civilians, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) determined, after the completion of hearings investigating the torture. According to the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, the “Committee was seriously concerned about the causalities caused by the excessive use of force, particularly the use of lethal weapons by security forces and unidentified armed elements during demonstrations on the […]

3 August 2022

International

UN to launch drive to uncover Syria’s missing as death toll rises

INTERNATIONAL The United Nations said a new drive to locate thousands of people missing in Syria’s war is set to be announced, as newly released statistics shed light on the scale of death in the conflict and in Syrian prisons. Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Middle East Eye that the secretary-general will soon publish a report on how to bolster efforts […]

29 June 2022

International News

Egypt executes student who was ‘tortured to confess’ to attempted assassination of senior officer

Egyptian authorities have carried out the death penalty against a university student after his conviction in the case of the assassination of a high-ranking police officer in Alexandria in 2018, a rights group said citing his family. According to the Egyptian Network for Human Rights, the Egyptian Prisons Authority on Sunday executed Moataz Mustafa Hassan, the 27-year-old engineering student, inside the Cairo Appeal Prison. His body was transferred to the […]

5 July 2021

International News

British aid worker Tauqir Sharif freed by HTS in Idlib

A British aid worker held for more than three months by the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group in Syria's opposition-held Idlib province was released on Tuesday, his family confirmed. Tauqir Sharif, who is from London, had been in HTS custody since 11 August after being detained while attending a court hearing relating to his earlier arrest by the group in June. In a video released by his family during […]

26 November 2020

International News

Amnesty accuses Iran of widespread torture during 2019 protests

Rights group Amnesty International has accused Iran of using torture to extract confessions, saying hundreds of people have been jailed since a sweeping crackdown against protests last year. Demonstrations erupted across Iran in November 2019 after a significant petrol price rise, but they were put down by the Iranian security forces with mass arrests amid a near-total internet blackout. Amnesty said it had gathered dozens of testimonies from the 7,000 […]

2 September 2020

International News

5% of Palestinian detainees tortured in Israeli prisons

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Thursday that 95% of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have suffered torture, Anadolu Agency reports. This came in a statement released by PPS ahead of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture to be marked on June 26. “Israel adopts multiple methods to torture detainees physically and psychologically, through a system of comprehensive violence,” it said. “Detainees are subjected to sleep […]

27 June 2020

International News

UAE officials under investigation for torture

The UK police is actively investigating a group of United Arab Emirates officials for torture and cruel treatment inflicted on several Qatari nationals, a human rights lawyer has said. The Emiratis may be questioned and arrested if they were to enter the UK under the principle of universal jurisdiction, says Rodney Dixon, a barrister at Temple Garden Chambers representing three Qatari nationals, who were imprisoned and tortured between 2013 and […]

23 January 2018

International News

Kenya election official tortured, murdered before vote

A senior Kenyan election official was found murdered on Monday, three days after he went missing, poll officials said, as opposition leaders warned the killing could plunge next week's national vote into turmoil. Chris Musando, the election board's head of information, communication and technology, was tortured before he died, the board told journalists, without giving further details. Kenyans - who saw their 2007 election descend into ethnic violence - will […]

1 August 2017

International News

NGO: Israel practices ‘systematic torture’ on Palestinian detainees

Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer released a statement on Monday, International Day to Support Victims of Torture, highlighting Israel’s use of “torture and ill-treatment” on Palestinian detainees, which has led to the death of 73 Palestinians since 1967. According to Addameer, Israeli authorities' practice of torture, which it said has been carried out in a “systematic manner,” contravenes numerous international laws and conventions prohibiting the use of torture, and that […]

27 June 2017

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