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Archives for November 2015

UN Passes Five Resolutions In Favor Of Palestine

The resolutions endorse the return to peace talks, denouncing settlements in disputed East Jerusalem and in support of the work of the UN Committee fighting for the rights of the Palestinian people.

IMEMC News
By IMEMC News
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 file photo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York, New York (IMEMC) – The overwhelming majority of General Assembly of the United Nations, Wednesday, voted on five draft resolutions in favor of Palestine. The decision comes after the Assembly discussed the two articles, “the Palestinian Cause” and “the Conditions in the Middle East.” According to Al Ray, the first resolution was

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Outrage Over Saudi Death Sentence Of Palestinian Poet

The sentence has drawn condemnation from rights groups, cultural figures and social media, with the hashtag #FreeAshraf appearing in response to reports about it.

CNN
By CNN
In this undated photo posted on the Instagram account of Ashraf Fayadh, Palestinian artist Ashraf Fayadh poses for a picture. When Fayadh was tried last year on blasphemy-related charges, the Saudi judges overseeing the case rejected the prosecution’s request for a death sentence for apostasy. Instead, he was sentenced to 800 lashes and four years in prison. After an appeal, this time with a different lead judge, threw out critical witness testimony and sentenced the artist to death. Fayadh’s case exemplifies the ways in which Shariah law in Saudi Arabia bends under the whim of judges, leading to vastly different punishments and unexpected outcomes. (Instagram account of Ashraf Fayadh via AP)

Hundreds of writers around the world have joined human rights groups in urging Saudi Arabia to release a poet who faces a death sentence on charges of apostasy for his poetry. Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh, 32, was sentenced to death by a court in the southwestern Saudi city of Abha this month on a series of blasphemy charges,

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Don’t Bomb Syria! Thousands Protest Proposed UK Military Action

Mass protests have taken place in London and many other cities across the country urging the government not to conduct airstrikes in Syria.

RT
By RT
Demonstrators protest against British bombing of Syria outside Downing Street in London, Britain, 28 November 2015. (Hannah McKay/PA)

‘Don’t Bomb Syria’ signs were plentiful, as thousands of protesters took to the streets of the British capital to make their voices heard, in a rally organized by the Stop the War coalition. The demonstration in London started outside Prime Minister David Cameron’s residence at 10 Downing Street. The rally was against a planned vote in

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Pittsburgh Muslim Taxi Driver Shot On Thanksgiving In Alleged Hate Crime

The victim came to the US from Morocco only five years ago with hopes to become a teacher and raise a family.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wasiullah Mohamed, executive director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, sits Friday with a cab driver who was shot Thursday morning.

Pittsburgh police are investigating the Thanksgiving Day shooting of a Muslim cab driver in Hazelwood that the victim and leaders of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh are describing as a hate crime. The driver, a 38-year-old Moroccan immigrant who has requested anonymity out of fear for his safety and who has not been identified by police, said

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Environmental Activists ‘Being Killed In Record Numbers’ After At Least 116 Die In 2014

Activists have died opposing logging, hydropower, mining and land disputes

The Independent
By The Independent
An indigenous woman confronts police

At least 116 environmental activists died last year while campaigning against mining, logging, water and land grabs, according to a report. The number of deaths is rising, UK-based group Global Witness reported, with two people dying on average every week – up a fifth on 2013. Some have been shot by police during protests or gunned down by

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70,000 Moderate Fighters in Syria? It’s Another Cameron Photoshop

David Camreon is once again working overtime to sell a new war to the British public.

Robert Fisk
By Robert Fisk
British Prime Minister David Cameron, centre, talks with Royal Navy personnel during his visit to Royal Air Force station RAF Northolt, in west London on Monday Nov. 23, 2015. (Justin Tallis, Pool/AP)

Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 “moderate” fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied –

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