Human Rights

  Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi said she had called ambassador Gary Quinlan to her office to convey the Muslim majority country’s “strong condemnation” of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning’s controversial comments. The 50 Muslims killed in Friday’s massacre in Christchurch included one Indonesian, while another was seriously injured. “Ambassador Quinlan conveyed his reassurance that the statement made by Senator Anning…

  Involved in the death of the dissident journalist, the group engages in surveillance, kidnapping, detention and torture of Saudi citizens, American officials, who have read classified intelligence reports about the campaign, told the New York Times, according to a Sunday report. The Washington Post journalist was last seen entering the Saudi mission in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 before being…

  An official from the president’s office made the announcement on Monday, two days after the anti-government protesters burned down the famous Fouquet’s restaurant, several shops and vehicles, as well as newspaper stands on the avenue, Reuters reported. Following the incident, Macron summoned a meeting with his interior and justice ministers to assess the critical situation and take necessary measures ease…

Is Turkey using New Zealand massacre in favour of upcoming election? Ömer Çelik, the Spokesman of AKP about the massacre of New Zealand. “There is a political stacking doll ghost wandering. There is enmity for Erdogan at the top, and enmity for Turkey, Islam at the bottom of this political stacking dool ghost.” In the following tweet Hilal Kaplan says,…

  The protest is one of several planned in the French capital on Saturday, where French climate campaigners are also planning a “March of The Century”. The movement had recently been characterized by politicians and media in France as losing steam, but a large crowd gathered on the Champs-Elysees avenue for the 18th straight week of anti-government protests. Protesters erected barricades near…

  “I’m announcing a policy of US visa restrictions on those individuals directly responsible for any ICC investigation of US personnel,” Pompeo said at a State Department briefing on Friday. “This includes persons who take or have taken action to request or further such an investigation. These visa restrictions may also be used to deter ICC efforts to pursue allied…

  Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi was referring to the so-called Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018, in which the US State Department has once again leveled a host of unfounded accusations of rights abuses against the Islamic Republic. The report, which was released on March 13, claimed that Iran’s human rights record had “remained extremely poor and…

  In the section on Khashoggi’s murder, the US State Department report released on Wednesday attributed the crime to “government agents,” without mentioning the controversial prince. This is while The Washington Post, for which Khashoggi was a columnist, reported last November that the CIA had concluded that the heir to the Saudi throne – also known as MbS — ordered the assassination of…

  The “Safe Parking LA” program offers a temporary safe haven to some of the more than 15,500 people in the region who live in their vehicles. Nearly 554,000 people in the United States were homeless in 2017, according to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  About 25 percent of them — or 134,000 — lived in California, the…

“We have apprehended two people who attempted to sabotage the communications system at the Guri dam in order to impede the process of (power supplies) restoration. They are being questioned”, Maduro said in his address to the Venezuelan people, Sputnik reported. The Venezuelan president also opined that US President Donald Trump bore the most responsibility for the disruption of Venezuela’s power…