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Dawoud Al-Marhoon, who had previously been sentenced to death for protesting while he was a minor, has been freed
Saudi Arabia releases Shia minor after commuting his death sentence

Originally posted to The Middle East Monitor website, 3 February 2022  Saudi Arabia yesterday freed [...]

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Admission follows allegations of snooping on mobile phones of protesters, politicians and criminal suspects
Israeli police find ‘legally debatable’ use of spyware by investigators

Originally posted to The Guardian website, 1 February 2022 Israel’s national police force has found [...]

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Lokman Slim, an activist and publisher who ran a research centre, speaks during an interview, in a still image taken from Reuters TV footage shot on February 2, 2009, in Beirut, Lebanon
Investigations into politically sensitive murders in Lebanon flawed-HRW

Originally posted to the Reuters website, 3 February 2022 BEIRUT, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Flawed [...]

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Allegations of worker exploitation at ‘world’s greatest show’ in Dubai

Originally posted to The Guardian website, 3 February 2022 Migrant workers employed at Expo 2020 [...]

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Workers clean an area at Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 3, 2021. The legions of workers who built Dubai's extravagant Expo 2020 site and keep it running face exploitation, grim conditions and a wide range of labor abuses, according to a new report by London-based rights consultancy Equidem released on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022
New report details labor rights abuses at Dubai’s Expo 2020

Originally posted to AP News website, 2 February 2022 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — [...]

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In this screenshot from video, a purported dissident message is seen from an online account calling itself "The Justice of Ali" that reportedly played overtop of an Iranian state television streaming feed on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. A streaming website that features Iranian state television programming has acknowledged suffering technical issues amid reports that dissident hackers played an anti-government message on the platform. The caption at the bottom of the image in Farsi reads: "The regime has tasted our blows and it will taste it again."
Iran state TV streaming site targeted with dissident message

Originally posted to AP News website, 2 February 2022 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — [...]

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