Human Rights

27 Jan 2022; MEMO: Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are suffering from the cold due to a lack of heating, along with authorities' blocking of donations of winter clothes, a Palestinian official body said Thursday, and Anadolu News Agency reports.

"All detainees suffer from shortages of clothes and blankets and the lack of heating means that could protect them from the cold weather," the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs said in a statement.

26 Jan 2022; MEMO: Israel could relocate the Khan Al-Ahmar community 300 metres away, to the opposite side of Route 1 as an alternative to razing the village.

The option comes in light of the continued pressure from the international community and the International Criminal Court's (ICC) warning that the eviction and displacement of the Palestinian residents amounts to a war crime, reported Channel 12.

26 Jan 2022; MEMO: The United States, Britain, France and several other countries have called on the Syrian regime to end the unlawful detention and enforced disappearance of Syrian people, and to allow humanitarian access to the country, Anadolu reported.

Los Angeles, Jan 27 (AP) The most vulnerable members of the Wiyot Tribe were asleep the morning of Feb 26, 1860, when a band of white men slipped into their Northern California villages under darkness and slaughtered them.

Many of the children, women and elderly slain in what became known as the Indian Island Massacre had their eternal rest disturbed when their graves were later dug up and their skeletons and the artifacts buried with them were placed in a museum.

Washington, Jan 27 (PTI) Former vice-president Hamid Ansari and four US lawmakers have expressed concern over the current human rights situation in India.

They were speaking at a virtual panel discussion organised by the Indian American Muslim Council on Wednesday.

India has rejected criticism by foreign governments and human rights groups on allegations that civil liberties have eroded in the country.

26 Jan 2022; MEMO: The Serbian authorities have extradited a Bahrain opposition figure to Manama despite an injunction issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Guardian has reported. Ahmed Jaafar Muhammad Ali, 48, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison in 2013 for alleged terrorist activities.

Human rights groups have accused Bahrain of seeking to suppress dissent in the kingdom through such allegations. Popular protests have taken place there since the Arab Spring started in 2011.

26 Jan 2022; MEMO: A German federal court has described as "unconstitutional" the city of Munich's refusal to allow a public venue to be used for a debate on its 2017 anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions resolution, The Electronic Intifada has reported. The court ruled that the resolution "violates the fundamental right to freedom of expression."

26 Jan 2022; MEMO: A Regional Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) who investigated Israel's conflict with Hamas in Gaza and the Beirut port explosion had her phones hacked with spyware made by the Israeli company NSO, the group said on Wednesday, and reported by Reuters.

26 Jan 2022; MEMO: Biden has authorised a $2.5 billion arms sale to Egypt as the country's human rights violations spiral out of control.

The announcement comes as a video spread online showing scenes of torture within a police station in Cairo confirming what rights defenders have said for years – that torture of prisoners in Egypt is systematic and widespread.

25 Jan 2022; MEMO: Israeli Minister of Public Security, Omer Bar-Lev, yesterday ordered an investigation into recent reports on local police using NSO Group's Pegasus software to spy on citizens without a court order.