Egyptian authorities detained a Ukrainian tanker carrying Iranian oil as it passed through the Suez Canal ten days ago. News of the seizure came a day after Egypt’s Supreme State Security Criminal Court sentenced six [ More … ]
There are more than 15 US nationals who have been detained in Egypt for years with no attention on the part of US President Donald Trump. On the other hand, Turkey has been beaten down [ More … ]
A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council has been sentenced to six months administrative detention after being arrested for ties to the PFLP. Palestinian politician and rights activist Khalida Jarrar was sentenced on Wednesday to [ More … ]
A number of leading detained activists from Al Hoceima and other towns in the Rif were reportedly called for “extensive” interrogations on Monday. Al Yaoum24 said that two activists detained in Casablanca’s Oukacha Prison were [ More … ]
Statement by Pakistani reporter says he was held with his cameraman while covering a visit by Turkey’s foreign minister. Saudi Arabia detained a Pakistani journalist and his Turkish cameraman working for Turkey’s state-run English language [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained 10 security guards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, after they prevented an Israeli archaeologist from trying to remove an old stone from the religious compound. The [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained Palestinian writer Khalida Ghusheh on Saturday morning after raiding her home in the neighborhood of Beit Hanina in occupied East Jerusalem. Ghusheh’s manager, Amani Abd al-Karim, said that Israeli police had raided [ More … ]
A 19-year-old Palestinian from the Nablus area village of Beita in the northern occupied West Bank was detained late Thursday afternoon at a market in the central Israeli town of Petah Tikva, in connection with [ More … ]
A group of Egyptian youth have organized – in coordination with students from different nationalities – a campaign that calls for the release of the student ‘Israa Khaled Saeed’. A number of videos in more [ More … ]
A Palestinian detainee died in an Israeli prison after suffering a stroke on Sunday morning, local media reported. Yasser Hamdouna, 41, had recently been suffering from health problems according to residents from his village Yaabad [ More … ]
Israeli forces have detained around 1,000 Palestinian minors since the beginning of 2016, a Palestinian committee said Saturday, accrding to Anadolu Agency. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s committee on detainees said some of the minors [ More … ]
21 political and labor entities, local and foreign NGOs along with more than 400 workers, employees, professionals, trade unions and academics are in solidarity to release 14 workers at Alexandria Shipyard Company who were detained [ More … ]
As Egypt’s tourism struggles to revive a severe decline, a passenger on board an EgyptAir flight carrying 150 passengers was detained after storming the pilot’s cockpit, the airline said. EgyptAir said that the passenger was [ More … ]
A lawyer has filed an urgent complaint to the state security prosecution against Amira Iraqi who achieved first position and got the highest marks at the exams of Egypt’s General Certificate of Secondary Education (Thanawya Amma) in [ More … ]
The family of the Israeli soldier Shaul Aaron, who is reportedly detained by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, called for a massive demonstration Wednesday evening before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem on [ More … ]
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