The increased “securitization” of Europe has disadvantaged ethnic and religious groups, particularly Muslims Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday. AI looked at human rights analyses drawn from 14 EU member states. The group warned of the trend in Europe to apply security measures in a discriminatory manner. The practice has allegedly increased in [...]
The Special Prosecution for the Republic of Kosovo has filed an indictment against former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla Remiz Shala. He is charged with detaining an Albanian civilian suspected of collaborating with Serbia for several days before he was found dead. The indictment for war crimes against Shala, known during war time as the Red [...]
South Korea’s special prosecutor is seeking a warrant to arrest Samsung Group’s chief Jay Y. Lee after accusing Lee of bribing a friend of South Korea’s President, Park Geun-hye . The special prosecutor’s office claims that Lee paid a total of $36.42 million in bribes to secure the 2015 merger of Samsung C&T and Cheil [...]
Oman’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has accepted 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay upon request from the Obama administration. However, there has been no official statement released by the US Defense Department on the transfer nor has the Oman Foreign Ministry released the names of the detainees. US President-Elect Donald Trump recently called for a [...]
The Turkish Grand National Assembly approved on Sunday the final article of a constitutional reform package, which opponents fear will take the country closer toward authoritarianism. Five of the 18 articles were already approved in the first round on Friday with the support of 340-343 lawmakers. With the approval of the 18th and final article, [...]
The High Administrative Court in Egypt on Monday rejected the appeal of a lower court’s decision in June to stop the government from handing over two uninhabited islands, Tiran and Sanafir, in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia stating that the government failed to provide any evidence that the islands originally belonged to Saudi Arabia. [...]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a recent letter, warned President-Elect Trump against moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Specifically, Abbas said the move would have a “disastrous impact on the peace process, on the two-state solution and on the stability and security of the entire region.” The new administration’s plan has also been [...]
The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he plans to declare martial law if the country’s drug problem becomes “very virulent.” Duterte, who recently called reports that he intended to institute martial law “nonsense,” has made a concerted effort to combat drugs in the country, a campaign which has resulted in the killing of [...]
Former Haitian coup leader Guy Philippe pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering in the Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida . Philippe was arrested on January 5 and flown to the US to stand trial on longstanding charges, after appearing on a Haitian radio show. His [...]
Three men were executed by firing squad in Bahrain on Sunday after being convicted of killing three policemen in March 2014. The execution came a week after a the high court upheld their sentence, leading to the first documented execution in Bahrain in six years. The executions have been controversial and heavily critized, especially because [...]
