The executive director of EIPR, Hossam Bahgat, has been convicted for a tweet criticizing election fraud and handed a ten thousand Egyptian pound ($635) fine. The court found Hossam Bahgat, the executive director of the [ More … ]
Amid what the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs has described as a “frenetic Israeli campaign” against Palestinian authorities’ payment of allowances to Palestinian prisoners in Israel and their families, the committee published a list on [ More … ]
Jordan on Saturday executed 15 death-row inmates, including 10 convicted terrorists, officials said. Five were members of the “Irbid cell,” said Mohammed Al-Momani, information minister and government spokesman. Others were convicted for other terror attacks [ More … ]
An Israeli military court on Thursday granted the request of Israeli soldier Elor Azarya — who was convicted last month of manslaughter for the filmed, execution-style shooting of 21-year-old Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif –to postpone the [ More … ]
– An Australian charged with 7 counts of supporting engagement in armed hostilities in Syria An Australian court on Tuesday convicted the first Australian to be charged with recruiting people to fight overseas since the start of [ More … ]
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