أرشيف الوسم : war crimes

On Tuesday, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza and urged donors to meet and discuss financial reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave. The OIC, after its second meeting in three days, said that it had condemned Israeli “in the liveliest terms” during the meeting and called Israel “the occupying force, for war crimes it …

The United Nations on Monday said human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, Movie star George Clooney’s fiancé, is set to join other human rights experts and investigate the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The Lebanon-born British lawyer is one of three top human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council on a commission of inquiry to probe the aggression; the …

English composer Brain Eno, in a letter published on Scottish musician David Byrne’s website, called out Israel on its aggression in Palestine. “I received this email last Friday morning from my friend, Brian Eno. I shared it with my office and we all felt a great responsibility to publish Brian’s heavy, worthy note”, Bryne said on his site before publishing …

Fighters in Syria have held 54 children and women as hostage for a year, rights group Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, and urged that they should be freed. It also warned that holding civilians could amount to a war crime. The New York-based rights group said that the group of 54 was captured from the province of Latakia in …

Rock star Peter Gabriel, from the band Genesis, and filmmaker Ken Loach, director of films like Cathy Come Home, The Navigators, Riff-Raff, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Kes, and 34,000 others are all signatories in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron demanding an immediate interruption of trade between Israel and the UK. The letter was …

Nearly 1,500 academics all over the world and rectors from 111 Turkish universities have signed an open letter condemning the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza. The letter also appeals to Israeli academics to speak out against their government. “We have been asked by our academic colleagues in Gaza – whose universities have been destroyed a number of times …

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday said Israel’s actions in Gaza could be deemed as war crimes while also condemning the haphazard rocket fire by Hamas. “There seems to be a strong possibility that international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes”, she said at an emergency session of the …

Several Muslim, Arab-American and anti-war groups have joined forces to organize a march on the White House that will take place at 1:00 p.m. local time on Saturday, August 2nd to protest against the Israeli operation in Gaza. The co-sponsors of the march include the ANSWER Coalition, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), American Muslim Alliance …

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 …

International Rights group Amnesty International has gathered evidence which suggests that extrajudicial executions of detainees have been conducted by Shi’ite militias and government forces in the cities of Mosul, Ba’quba and Tal ‘Afar. Relatives of those executed and surviving detainees had given graphic, detailed accounts of the executions, which suggest that Iraqi forces had carried out several vindictive attacks against …