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Moscow accuses Ukraine of 'war crime' for 'executing' Russia soldiers
Nov 19, 2022 03:58Russian Defense Ministry has accused Ukraine of committing "war crimes" by, what Moscow denounces as, execution of more than 10 Russian soldiers.
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Prominent Bahraini activist faces new charges for 'insulting' Israel
Nov 17, 2022 14:10Bahrain’s political activist and human rights advocate Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is already serving a life sentence, has reportedly been targeted with a series of fresh charges over his protests from prison, including insulting the Israeli occupation regime.
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Iran rejects Canada-drafted UN resolution as political exploitation of human rights
Nov 17, 2022 03:49Iran has rejected a Canadian-proposed resolution approved by the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic, condemning it as an example of exploiting human rights to advance political goals.
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Saudi Arabia sentences activist to 10 years in prison over tweets, rights groups say
Nov 16, 2022 09:32Human rights organizations says a Saudi pro-democracy activist has received a 10-year jail sentence for writing tweets critical of the government, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against human rights activists and political dissidents widens.
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Saudi Arabia impounds another Yemen-bound fuel ship in act of piracy
Nov 15, 2022 11:42The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says Saudi Arabia and its coalition has seized yet another Yemen-bound fuel tanker and prevented it from docking at Hudaydah port, in a new act of piracy against the besieged Yemeni people.
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Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinian youth after alleged stabbing, car-ramming attack
Nov 15, 2022 11:37Israeli forces have shot dead a young Palestinian man in Ariel settlement in the West Bank city of Salfit, after he allegedly killed two settlers in a stabbing and car-ramming attack.
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Gharibabadi: Iran not to allow ‘false and hostile’ Western narrative about riots to distract countries
Nov 12, 2022 14:20Iran’s top human rights official says the Islamic Republic will not allow the “false and hostile" narrative of the United States and western governments regarding recent riots in Iran to divert the attention of the other world countries.
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UN chief urges junta to end Myanmar’s ‘unending nightmare’
Nov 12, 2022 13:30UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the international community has failed Myanmar, urging the ruling junta to cut the “unending nightmare.”
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Bahrain: Ayatollah Isa Qassim slams participation in parliamentary election as ‘betrayal’
Nov 12, 2022 02:03Bahrain’s most prominent religious scholar has reiterated the call to boycott parliamentary elections, saying participation in the elections amounts to betrayal.
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Iran FM urges immediate release of Hamid Nouri, warns of consequences
Nov 11, 2022 15:27Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called on the new Swedish government to immediately release Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official who has been incarcerated in Sweden, warning of the consequences of his illegal detention on bilateral relations.