أرشيف الوسم : prisoners

 nearly 700 put to death in just over six months Amnesty International  The Iranian authorities are believed to have executed an astonishing 694 people between 1 January and 15 July 2015, said Amnesty International today, in an unprecedented spike in executions in the country. This is equivalent to executing more than three people per day. At this shocking pace, Iran …

By: Ramzy Baroud Another row is brewing between Israel and the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, over the release of Avraham Mengitsu, an Israeli citizen who, according to Israeli military sources, ‘slipped into Gaza’ on September 7, 2014. The circumstances of Mengitsu’s entry into Gaza remain unclear, especially since Hamas’ political leader,Khaled Mashaal, denied that the military wing of Hamas is …

Syria has released around 11,000 detainees since the declaration of a general amnesty in June, Syria’s National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar said. However, several rights groups claim that over 200,000 people are still withering away in government jails. Haider on Monday told AFP that “11,000 people have benefited from the amnesty and been released from prison”, referring to the “general …

A Saudi prison, in the city of Beraydah, has decorated the prison cell of an inmate this week in celebration of the convict’s wedding ceremony. According to prison official Saleh al-korzaii, the prison management had “used suitable decor to set the appropriate atmosphere for the event” to celebrate the 30-something inmate’s wedding. Korzaij also said that there is precedent for …

Spotlight on Political Prisoners in One Iranian City – HRW   The 59-page report is based on a review of 189 cases in three prisons in the city of Karaj, near the capital, Tehran, including the charges they faced, details of their trials before revolutionary courts, and information from lawyers, prisoners’ families, and others. Human Rights Watch concluded that in …

On Thursday, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal rejected any claim that Hama will disarm as demanded by Israel, and said that the Palestinian movement’s weapons were “sacred”. “The weapons of the resistance are sacred and we will not accept that they be on the agenda” of any future negotiations with Israel, he said at a press conference in Doha, where he …

International rights group Human Rights Watch said that Iraq’s security forces and militia aligned with the government seem to have illegally executed at least 255 Sunni prisoners in six Iraqi villages and cities since June 9th, 2014. Most of Iraqi militia and security forces are Shiites. According to the rights group, in all cases but one, the executions took place …

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 …

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 …