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Saudi Arabia arrested Muslims clerics including Sheikh Hussein al-Nimr
December 22, 2020
Saudi Arabia arrested Muslims clerics including Sheikh Hussein al-Nimr
More than a dozen Shia Muslim clerics are reportedly being kept behind bars at detention facilities in Saudi Arabia, as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against members of the religious community in the kingdom.Lebanon-based and Arabic-language…
Sima Samar fired as Afghan state minister for human rights
December 21, 2020
Sima Samar fired as Afghan state minister for human rights
Sima Samar, state minister for human rights wasa dismissed from her job by President Ghani. She confirmed her dismissal from office on Sunday, saying that the whole ministry was dissolved.Mrs. Samar said that her dismissal was proposed by the administrative…
Syria: ISIS children handed over to their country’s governments
December 21, 2020
Syria: ISIS children handed over to their country’s governments
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria announced the handover of children and women from the families of ISIS terrorist organization to the governments of their countries in Finland and Germany.The Public Relations Department at the Autonomous Administration said…
Implementation of 253 military operations against ISIS terrorists this year
December 20, 2020
Implementation of 253 military operations against ISIS terrorists this year
The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) announced that it has carried out more than 253 military operations against ISIS terrorists this year.In a statement received by Shiawaves Agency, the CTS stated, “With direct instructions from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces…
Yemeni Health: We lose 100,000 newborns every year due to aggression and blockade
December 20, 2020
Yemeni Health: We lose 100,000 newborns every year due to aggression and blockade
“The Saudi aggression coalition has been preventing the introduction of advanced medical equipment for 6 years, and we have been unable to bring medical personnel due to the siege and aggression,” said the spokesperson of Yemen’s Ministry of Health, Najeeb…
Eight Afghan people killed, 15 injured in Kabul blast
December 20, 2020
Eight Afghan people killed, 15 injured in Kabul blast
Eight civilians were killed and 15 others injured as a blast rocked the Police District 5 of Kabul on Sunday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement.According to the statement, the blast took place in Spin Kuli, a suburban…
Explosion at religious gathering in central Afghanistan kills at least 15 civilians: Afghan official
December 19, 2020
Explosion at religious gathering in central Afghanistan kills at least 15 civilians: Afghan official
An explosion at a religious gathering in central Afghanistan killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 20 others on Friday, the country’s interior ministry said, adding that children may be among the victims.Those killed and wounded were attending a Qur’an…
Free Muslim calls for Amnesty International to save Bahrain activists from the risk of execution
December 19, 2020
Free Muslim calls for Amnesty International to save Bahrain activists from the risk of execution
The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, called on Amnesty International to urgently intervene to save dozens of Bahraini youth activists in the field of rights from the threat of death sentences issued against them.In a statement, the organization said that…
HRW: Migrants Held in Inhuman, Degrading Conditions in Saudi Arabia
December 17, 2020
HRW: Migrants Held in Inhuman, Degrading Conditions in Saudi Arabia
A deportation center in Riyadh is holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Detainees alleged to Human Rights Watch that they are held in extremely overcrowded…
Taliban Kill 13 Afghan Policemen in Checkpoint Attacks
December 17, 2020
Taliban Kill 13 Afghan Policemen in Checkpoint Attacks
At least 13 Afghan policemen were killed when Taliban militants attacked two checkpoints overnight in the north of the country, officials said Wednesday.The militants stormed and briefly held the checkpoints on the outskirts of Pule Khumri, capital of northern Baghlan…