Condemnation comes a year after Ban Ki-moon accused kingdom of threatening to cut funding over inclusion on list The United Nations has blacklisted the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition in Yemen for killing or injuring 683 children, and attacking dozens of ...
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DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) – A group of British human rights lawyers have accused Bahraini oversight bodies funded by Britain’s government of violating international law by allegedly failing to investigate torture allegations against two inmates on death row. ...
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Female inmates at a prison in Bahrain have gone on open-ended hunger strike in protest at the recent restrictions imposed on family visits there. The collective decision for the hunger strike at the Isa detention facility came after prison ...
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We have been anaesthetised to the depressing nature of news coming out of the Middle East, but we can’t be allowed to forget what is happening in Qatar Your name is Sumon, and you live in a small ...
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Britain is “exporting fear” to children trapped in Yemen’s civil war as it continues to supply billions of pounds worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, Save the Children has warned. The UK has earned at least £3.2 billion ...
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Accusation of double standards as British-made bombs fall on Yemen Bill Nighy, Ian McEwan and Coldplay are among stars calling on Britain to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia which they say are responsible for “unspeakable suffering” in Yemen. At ...
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Amnesty International condemns ‘execution spree’, which in recent months has seen as many as five people executed a week The execution of a man convicted of murder has taken the number of people Saudi Arabia executed in the conservative Kingdom ...
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Exclusive: Mission in Doha had been channel for dialogue for more than six years but Trump is said to be hostile to keeping it open Donald Trump is pushing the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, to close a Taliban mission ...
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• Human Rights Watch says hundreds of workers dying every year • Statutory work breaks in summer midday hours not sufficient Many thousands of migrant workers on construction sites in Qatar, including those building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup, are ...
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Mixed audience permitted for the first time as national day festivities promote patriotic pride and aim to open up society Saudi Arabia has allowed women into the national stadium for the first time as it launched celebrations to mark ...
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SAUDI Arabia’s king has issued an order allowing women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that’s become a global symbol of repression. SAUDI Arabia will allow women to drive from next June, in an historic decision that makes ...
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Delivering an oral intervention on behalf of the American for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), Parweez said that the regime “actively targets Shiite clerics and Shiite civil and political societies.” “Bahrain also targets Shiite clerics with ...
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