Felix Corley
- Nov 29, 2022
Turkmenistan Moves Religious Prisoners to New Labor Camps
TURKMENISTAN: Muslim prisoners of conscience transferred to new labour camps 28 October 2022 Felix Corley, Forum 18 Five Sunni Muslims jailed in Balkanabat for 12 years each in August 2017 for meeting to study the works of the theologian Said Nursi were transferred recently to new labour camps. The strict-regime labour camp at Bayramali in Mary Region, where four of the five are held, also holds another jailed Nursi reader, 47-year-old Begench Dadebayew. At least two among mo
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- Nov 28, 2022
Turkey confirms deadly airstrikes in Syria and Iraq
Strikes launched in retaliation for Istanbul bombing target ‘terrorist bases’, but civilian deaths reported by Kurdish officials People look at a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes in Hasakah province, Syria. Photograph: Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Turkey launched deadly airstrikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq, the Turkish defence ministry said on Sunday, targeting Kurdish groups that Ankara holds responsible for last week’s bomb attack in Istanbul. Warplanes attacked bases
NY Times
- Nov 26, 2022
Holodomor Parallels Russia's Genocide in Ukraine
The Holodomor commemoration came as President Vladimir V. Putin was accused of degrading Ukraine’s power grid to freeze the country into submission. Placing candles on Saturday at a memorial to honor the victims of the Holodomor, a famine engineered in 1932 by Joseph Stalin that killed millions of Ukrainians. Credit: Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times By Marc Santora and Cassandra Vinograd Nov. 26, 2022Updated 4:58 p.m. ET KYIV, Ukraine — When Joseph Stalin engineered a f
Amnesty International
- Nov 24, 2022
Prosecutors drop murder charges against 24 Maasai
Maasai and government troops in Loliondo, where protests over eviction from their land turned violent on Friday (© Handout) Responding to the decision by Tanzania’s Director of Public Prosecution to drop charges of murder and conspiracy to murder against 24 members of the Maasai, including 10 leaders, Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “Dropping these charges against members of the Maasai people is unequivocally t
Genocide Watch
- Nov 22, 2022
Stanton opposes State Dept. opinion for immunity of MBS
Dr. Stanton debates former State Dept. Legal Advisor John Bellinger on immunity of Saudi Prince MBS for murder and torture of Jamal Kashoggi credit: PBSNewshour To view program segment click on image or here. Full transcript of PBS Newshour debate between John Bellinger and Gregory Stanton regarding State Department opinion that Mohammed Bin Salman has immunity from civil suits in US by PBS Newhour The State Department issued a legal opinion that said Saudi Arabia’s Crown Pr
Tawheed Reza Noor
- Nov 22, 2022
Recognition of the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971
2022 Dhaka conference on recognition of the Bangladesh Genocide (left to right: Dr. Hoque, Dr. Stanton, moderator, Dr. Momen, Dr. Jarvis credit:bdnews.com Recognition of the Bangladesh Genocide by Tawheed Reza Noor In 1971, Bangladesh emerged as a new country after experiencing one of the most devastating genocides of the twentieth century. The massacres and material destruction of the Bangladesh Genocide were intentional and systematic. Renowned scholars have recognized th
USC Annenberg Media
- Nov 21, 2022
Supreme Ct. may overturn indigenous adoption law
Supreme Court hearing on landmark Indigenous adoption law sparks outcry. As the Supreme Court considers the Indian Child Welfare Act, activists fear loss of Native sovereignty. By Prachi Singh November 16, 2022 at 6:33 pm PST Demonstrators stand outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, as the court hears arguments over the Indian Child Welfare Act, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. (Photo courtesy of AP Photos) It was a landmark federal law protecting Native American children
Deutsche Welle
- Nov 19, 2022
Humanitarian Crisis Worsens In DR Congo
Thousands more people are fleeing their homes in eastern DRC amid fighting between M23 rebels and government forces. Residents don't believe that new talks in Kenya will bring peace. Kayembe camp first filled with people fleeing the eruption of the nearby Nyirangono volcano. Now they are fleeing armed rebels (© GUERCHOM NDEBO AFP | Getty Images) Members of the collective Goma Actif, which brings together artists, activists and businesspeople from Goma, have been helping those
Reuters
- Nov 18, 2022
Ukrainians Describe Horrors of Kherson Occupation
By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth KHERSON, Ukraine, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Residents in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson call the two-storey police station "The Hole". Vitalii Serdiuk, a pensioner, said he was lucky to make it out alive. "I hung on," the retired medical equipment repairman said as he recounted his ordeal in Russian detention two blocks from where he and his wife live in a tiny Soviet-era apartment. The green-roofed police building at No. 3, Energy Workers' S
FORSEA
- Nov 17, 2022