In 2009, Nigerian police forces fighting Boko Haram in the northern city of Maiduguri lost about 30 officers in a violent firefight. The next day, they executed many of the men they had rounded up and detained as suspected Boko Haram fighters. The retaliatory killings often happened right outside police headquarters in full view of the public. Bodies piled up …
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The Syrian Center for Policy Research, in co-operation with the UN Palestinian refugee agency and the UN Development Program, produced the report “Squandering Humanity”, which says that the Syrian civil war has had a disastrous effect on its economy, and has plunged half of its population into poverty. According to the report, the conflict is creating “economies of violence that …
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The Israeli Prison Service has hospitalized 40 Palestinian prisoners, spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said on Wednesday. She described their condition as “reasonable” and said that they were, at different stages, taken to a hospital. The prisoners were on a hunger strike for over a month, protesting the terms of their imprisonment. Weizman said that all the prisoners on strike were administrative …
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On Wednesday, Israeli forces raided the headquarters of a Palestinian publishing house in the occupied city of Ramallah in West Bank. They also warned the publishing house not to publish newspapers close to Hamas. Palestinian officials have criticized to move, and said that it violates their freedom of expression. Israeli authorities were not immediately available for comment. The headquarters of …
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According to Amnesty International, several dozens of Syrians have for months been held in secret detention at a military camp in Egypt. New evidence gathered by the group suggests that the Syrians being held in the camp were subjected to torture to make them confess to certain crimes. Egyptian activists and lawyers have reportedly seen a list of at least …
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On Friday, a Muslim leader in Nigeria announced that he would host a nation-wide day of prayer in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja as a part of the effort to overcome Boko Haram’s lethal insurgency. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, The Sultan of Sokoto, invited all prominent Nigerian Muslim leaders to pray with him in the National Mosque in Abuja on Sunday. …
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Defense for Children Palestine (DCI-Palestine) this past week released a shocking video which clearly showed that two young Palestinian men were killed by IDF soldiers last Thursday while they were walking near the Nakba Day protest site outside Ofer Prison in West Bank. Previously, IDF officials maintained that the Palestinian teens had thrown firebombs and stones at the IDF soldiers, …
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On Wednesday, a group of human rights monitors urged Iran to stay the execution of two Arab activists from the country, explaining that the trial was fundamentally flawed. Sayed Khaled Mousavi and Ali Chebeishat, Arab cultural rights campaigners and farmers, will be executed on Thursday if Iran goes ahead with its plans. The two were arrested in November 2012, and …
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Russia has said that it would veto any UN resolution which would refer the Syrian conflict to the International Criminal Court if it would come to a vote in the UN Security Council, after 58 countries announced their support for such a measure. The resolution would authorize the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations made against the Syrian opposition and …
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Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday said that the death toll in war-stricken Syria has exceeded an astounding 160,000. The activist group said that it has documented exactly 162,402 deaths since the uprising began in March 2011. The number includes rebels, civilians, members of the military, members of militia like the Lebanese Hezbollah and foreign fighters involved in …
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