Human Rights

Srinagar, Sep 12 (PTI) Normal life remained affected in Kashmir as the stalemate following abrogation of Article 370 entered its 39th day on Thursday with schools closed and public transport off the roads, officials said.

Restrictions on the movement or assembly of people have been lifted from most areas of the valley, but security forces continued to be deployed to maintain law and order, the officials said.

They said the authorities were also considering easing out restrictions on mobile communications and restoring voice call services.

GENEVA, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenyan and British lawyers have submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Council on behalf of Kenyans who were forced from their land during the British colonial era.

They say they suffered horrific human rights abuses when British settlers took over their land in what is now Kericho County in the fertile Rift Valley.

The land was later leased to multinationals including tea companies.

JEDDAH, Sept 12 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will be holding an extraordinary meeting of its member countries at the foreign ministers’ level on Sunday over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s annexation statement, reported the Union of OIC News Agencies (UNA-OIC).

Scotland’s highest civil court has ruled that British PM Boris Johnson’s suspension of the UK Parliament ahead of Brexit is unlawful. A panel of three judges at the Court of Session found in favour of a cross-party group of politicians who were challenging the prime minister's move.

Five week suspension of Parliament, a process known as proroguing, started on Tuesday. MPs are not scheduled to return to Parliament until 14 October, and UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October.

Srinagar, Sep 11: A Kashmiri was killed in an alleged gunfight between with Indian security forces and Kashmiri separatist in Sopore of Baramulla districts of Indian administered Kashmir, an Indian official said.

Two police personnel were injured in a grenade blast at the encounter site and are out of danger.

11 Sep 2019; MEMO: Egyptian journalist Magdi Shendi, editor of Al-Mashhad weekly, has said that the Egyptian security forces stormed his house at dawn on Tuesday to arrest him. However, when they did not find Shendi they arrested his son as a means to create leverage and ensure that he surrender.

11 Sep 2019; MEMO: A prominent political activist in Sudan has called for the withdrawal of his country’s soldiers currently fighting in Yemen. Rashid Saeed of the Sudan Professionals’ Association is a civilian member of Sudan’s ruling coalition and has asked the transitional government to bring the troops home. He also expressed a desire for a negotiated peace agreement in Yemen.

New Delhi, Sep 10 (PTI) Delhi University Professor Hany Babu, whose house was raided in connection with the 2017 Elgaar Parishad case for alleged Maoist links, alleged that police did not have a search warrant and they seized the phones of his daughter and wife, not allowing them to communicate with friends.

Babu, who has been teaching at DU's English Department for close to a decade, said the police took away laptops which contain his research.

GAZA, Palestine, Sept 11 (NNN-WAFA) – The Islamic Hamas movement accused Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of selling “illusion” to Israeli voters by vowing to annex part of the occupied West Bank.

“Netanyahu is searching for the right-wing votes throughout selling his audience the illusion that he would keep the occupation of our land forever,” said Hazem Qassem, the spokesman of Hamas, that has been ruling the Gaza Strip since 2007.

CAIRO, Sept 11 (NNN-MENA) – Arab League (AL) Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, warned Israel against “playing with fire” with its recent attacks on some Arab countries.

“Israel now enjoys a political cover, provided by the United States, which enables it to attack Arab territories, as we have seen in recent weeks,” Aboul-Gheit said, at the AL foreign ministers meeting in Cairo.

He added that the purpose behind these aggressions is “electoral propaganda,” referring to the Sept 17 elections due to be held in Israel.