Human Rights

30 June 2022; MEMO: Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to abolish "unfair" sentences issued on Tuesday against 163 people, including ten people who were handed the death penalty, saying the sentences were "unfair" while the procedure was "marred by cases of enforced disappearance and torture, including of children".

Commenting on the sentences, Amna Guellali, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: "Today's verdict is an insult to justice."

30 June 2022; MEMO: Four protesters were killed in protests, Thursday, demanding the reversal of a military take-over in Sudan and a return to civilian rule, according to a local medical group, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The fatalities occurred as security forces used violence against protesters in Omdurman, the Central Committee of the Sudanese Doctors said in a statement.

It said dozens of demonstrators were also injured.

30 June 2022; MEMO: Two Palestinians drivers were run over and detained yesterday by Israeli occupation officers who hit them with their vehicle near the town of Al-Khader to the south of occupied Bethlehem, reported Wafa news agency.

Local eyewitnesses said Israeli officers hit the Palestinians, who were riding on their motorcycle. The pair, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, suffered severe injuries.

30 June 2022; MEMO: The Israeli Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem yesterday ordered the settler organisation Ateret Cohanim to vacate the Little Petra Hotel, located in Omar Ibn Al Khattab Square, by 3 July, Arab48 reported.

30 June 2022; MEMO: The Israeli High Court yesterday delayed a decision to expel a Palestinian family from its home in Wadi Al-Hilwa of occupied Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood.

The court, according to Safa news agency, said it was awaiting a reply from the Custodian of Absentee Property on why he had declared the house as an absentee property without checking the heirs of the previous owner.

29 June 2022; MEMO: Unilever, on Wednesday, sold its Ben & Jerry's ice cream business in Israel to its local licensee for an undisclosed sum, aiming to smooth over a potentially damaging diplomatic row, Reuters reports.

The deal comes after the US ice cream brand announced last year it would stop marketing products in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying that selling there was "inconsistent" with its values.

28 June 2022; MEMO: The UN human rights office said, on Tuesday, that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011, or about 1.5 per cent of its pre-war population, in what it said was the highest estimate yet, Reuters reports.

Syria's conflict sprang out of peaceful protests against President Bashar Al-Assad's rule in March 2011 and morphed into a multi-sided, protracted conflict that sucked in world powers.

28 June 2022; MEMO: A service honouring the life of journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, took place at St Bride's Church, the Journalists' Church, in London today.

New Delhi, Jun 28 (PTI) The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday termed as "extremely disturbing" the arrest of AltNews co-founder Muhammad Zubair on charges of hurting religious sentiments, and demanded his immediate release.

"It is apparent that AltNews' alert vigilance was resented by those who use disinformation as a tool to polarise society and rake nationalist sentiments," the Guild said in a statement here.

28 June 2022; MEMO: The murder of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli occupation forces had put the International Criminal Court (ICC) ahead of a big challenge, a legal expert said yesterday.

"Silence of the ICC's Public Prosecutor and his inaction to get the evidence and ask Israel to hand over the murderers is something strange," the legal expert said in a paper prepared by Jordanian international law specialist Mustafa Nasrallah.