Human Rights

SKIEN, Norway, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik gave a Nazi salute on Tuesday as he arrivedin court for a parole hearing that will decide if he should be released after spending more than a decade behind bars.

Breivik, a far-right extremist, killed 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp.

18 Jan 2022; MEMO: The Israeli Foreign Ministry criticised European diplomats harshly on Monday for visiting Sheikh Jarrah in solidarity with a Palestinian family under threat of forced eviction, the Jerusalem Post has reported.

"The ambassadors that attacked Israel today were confused," claimed a senior ministry official. "Instead of protecting the residents, they're protecting criminals."

16 Jan 2022; MEMO: Sudanese authorities have revoked the license of the Doha-based Al Jazeera Mubasher TV, citing "unprofessional coverage" of developments in Sudan.

The Information Ministry said in a letter to the director of Al Jazeera television in Sudan on Saturday that the move was taken due to the channel's "unprofessional approach" and broadcast of media content that "harmed the country's higher interests and national security".

New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the BJP's politics of "hatred" is very harmful for the country and is also responsible for unemployment.

The former Congress chief said this a day after he attacked the BJP government by putting out an online quiz

"I also believe that the hate politics of the BJP is very harmful for the country. And this hatred is also responsible for the unemployment," he said in a tweet in Hindi.

15 Jan 2022; MEMO: Forestation in the Negev region is set to continue with the government refusing to discuss the issue, aides close to Israeli Housing and Land Minister Ze'ev Elkin have confirmed, reported Sama News Agency on Friday.

Since Friday, the Jewish National Fund (JNF), in cooperation with the Israeli government, has been grading the land of Arab residents of Israel (Palestinians who did not leave their lands in 1948) and planting trees.

14 Jan 2022; MEMO: Hamas Spokesperson Hazem Qasem asserted on Friday that the uprising in the Negev region demonstrates that the Zionist occupation cannot defeat the Palestinians despite using all of its "colonial tools".

"Using all of its colonial tools, the Zionist Israeli occupation failed to uproot our people from the Negev," Qasem avowed in a statement.

Srinagar, Jan 14 (PTI) National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Friday accused the Jammu and Kashmir administration of targeting the Gujjar and Bakarwal tribals at the behest of its political masters.

The former chief minister's remarks came after the houses belonging to the community were demolished by the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) as part of its anti-encroachment drive recently.

13 Jan 2022; MEMO: Israel's Supreme Court has reduced the sentence of an extremist Israeli settler convicted of throwing stun grenades into Palestinian homes last year in the occupied West Bank. Judge Hagai Tarsi initially ordered the teenager, whose name has not been made public, to 20 months in prison and a fine of 60,000 shekels ($18,950), which will be paid to his victims in the village of Sarta.

13 Jan 2022; MEMO: Prominent Egyptian women's rights activist Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in prison for posting a video on Facebook in which she criticised authorities' failure to protect women from sexual harassment.

13 Jan 2022; MEMO: A German court today sentenced a former intelligence officer in Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's security services to life in prison after convicting him of murder, rape and crimes against humanity in a landmark trial, Reuters reports.