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On 15 April, the Extinction Rebellion group began a protest against climate change in London which is now entering its second week. Since the start of the protest, more than 1,000 people have been arrested and over 50 have been charged, in what organisers have described as the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history. Extinction Rebellion is an international protest group that uses non-violent civil disobedience to campaign … Read more →

An International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) statement on the whereabouts of the New Zealand nurse, Louisa Akavi, 62, indicated that “Our latest credible information indicates that Louisa was alive in late 2018” after her abduction five years ago. Akavi was with two Syrian drivers, Alaa Rajab and Nabil Bakdounes, from the ICRC delivering supplies to Idlib in Northern Syria when they were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in October … Read more →

Even with the international community calling for the Sudan government to refrain from hostilities, the fourth day of the protests in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, according to anti-government groups, stated that Tuesday’s protests were the most extreme. Pro-demonstration groups described how security forces from the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and Islamist militias violently clashed with peaceful protestors for two hours. They stated that: “this time it was more … Read more →

Since Thursday General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) forces have marched to attack Tripoli. With fighting raging on the outskirts of the city with thousands of refugees caught in between the crossfire. A UN report, on Sunday, called for a two-hour truce between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in Wadi Al-Rabeea, Al-Kayikh, Qasr bin Ghashir and Al-Aziziyah, “to ensure the evacuation of the wounded and civilians by ambulances” but … Read more →

The UN condemned Brunei this week for the legislation of the punishment of whipping for theft and stoning to death for the acts of sodomy, adultery, and rape. The kingdom, with a Muslim-majority population of around 400,000, first adopted these elements of Islamic law in 2014, and they have been rolled out in phases since then. However, homosexuality has been illegal in Brunei since British colonial rule, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.  … Read more →

Last month Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Ebrahim Raisi as the new Judiciary Chief amid international condemnation. Raisi served on Iran’s so-called “death commissions” that were a part of the Iranian Revolution set up at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980 to 1988, to crush any dissent towards the state. An estimated 5,000 prisoners were secretly executed in prisons during the “death commissions” of the 1980s. Raisi is also … Read more →