Azouli military prison: Egypt's dark secret | Egypt Independent - 0 views
'They would torture you': ISIS prisoners reveal life inside terror group - 1 views
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The terror group has been locked in a battle with Kurdish forces in the northern Syrian border town of Kobani since mid-September. The United States and its allies are bombing ISIS positions there, but airstrikes have yet to pry Kobani from the group's hands. Kareem says he fought for a year all across ISIS-controlled territory. He says other fighters he was with were promised wives by ISIS. Most of the fighters were foreigners, he says, and he had difficulty communicating with them because they didn't speak the local Syrian dialect of Arabic. Kareem says he even met a fighter from China at one point.
Syria talks in Moscow to focus on humanitarian issues | Reuters - 0 views
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(Reuters) - The Syrian government and some opposition figures will start a second round of talks in Moscow on Monday focusing on humanitarian issues, although a broader agreement is unlikely as Syria's main opposition group continues to boycott the talks.
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do not expect any big breakthrough towards ending a conflict
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January's unproductive first round of consultations in Moscow was shunned by the main political opposition group, the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition
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The conviction of Radovan Karadzic has lessons for Syria's war | Middle East Eye - 0 views
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Thursday saw the closure of a long and drawn out story for the victims of Bosnia’s bloody civil war as the guilty verdict was finally delivered in the trial of Radovan Karadzic.
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of a 40-year jail sentence for Karadzic for genocide and war crimes.
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Memory and justice are two themes
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Egypt Women Against the Coup Marks Women's Day Highlighting Suffering Under Repressive ... - 0 views
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This article was written during International Women's day and hightlights what women face under repressive regime. "At the hands of the coup regime in Egypt, women suffer horrific crimes including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest, violent rape, displacement, severe torture (often leading to permanent disability), sham military trials, unjust death sentences, enforced disappearances, brutal degrading treatment of political prisoners' wives and daughters while visiting relatives in the military junta's detention centers."
The Price of Standing Up for Rights in Saudi Arabia - 0 views
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On December 3, officials at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport prevented Samar Badawi from leaving Saudi Arabia to advocate abroad for the release of her husband, Waleed Abu al-Khair. A lawyer and human rights activist, he is in prison, facing a 15-year term for peacefully criticizing Saudi authorities on Twitter and in television interviews.
Syria begins freeing prisoners after Assad amnesty - Region - World - Ahram Online - 0 views
Egypt hunger strikes gain momentum - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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Several political parties and journalists have began hunger strikes in protest of prisoners locked up under the draconian anti-protest law enacted after Morsi was deposed by the military. The law has drawn international criticism and the post Morsi period saw violent crackdowns, torture, and executions that some say rival the darkest days of the Mubarak presidency.
When prisoners vanish | Mada Masr - 0 views
Egyptian Women's Day Grief - 0 views
Women in Egypt are facing a reality where hundreds of them find themselves as prisoners in Egyptian prisons, tortured and abused beyond comprehension. Al-Mesryoon reported that as many as 235 wome...
Libya has become the latest Isil conquest - Telegraph - 0 views
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If the conditions remain unchallenged and, hence, unchanged, it will turn into another Syria or Iraq.
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Nowhere is this threat more profound than with the rise of radical Islam in Libya
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The ongoing low-level insurgency in Benghazi is driven by two factors. The first is the radical Islamist ideology of certain groups that refuse to recognise the modern state and its institutions. For example, according to the leader of AS’s Benghazi branch, Mohammed al-Zahawi, his group will not disarm and demobilise until its version of sharia is imposed. The realisation of such an Islamic state constitutes the group’s main aim. In other words, it is the nature of their Jihad.
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This article basically accentuates the driving factors to the ongoing insurgency of ISIL in Libya and how the threat is even more extreme than that of Iraq and Syria. One is the Islamist ideology in itself, rejecting any form of a modern state and the institutions that accompany its success. For example in Libya the leader of the AS branch declares that his militants will not disarm or demobilize until sharia law is imposed. Second, during Gaddafi's rule he unleashed a crackdown on all Islamic expression. The brutality shown towards Islamic groups during this time has fueled their resentment towards sectarian rule and has urged them to push for the rejection of state institutions even more so. The article explains how Islamic groups have claimed power in both Benghazi and Derna, the latter being the historic recruiting ground for Jihad fighters to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. The author makes it clear that both military and diplomatic force from the international community is crucial for the reconciliation of security.
Head of Egypt's council for women slams detained female activists | Middle East Eye - 0 views
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Head of Egypt's council for women slams detained female activists
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Egyptian president of the National Council for Women said a group of jailed female activists were better off behind bars than they were on the outside.
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pointing out the favourable conditions in which she said female activists are living in Egyptian detention facilities.
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Egypt's 1984 - Sada - 1 views
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silence opposition voices, and consolidate control over the body politic
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unprecedented authoritarian measures into law.
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military tribunals to try civilians accused of offenses such as blocking roads or attacking public property,
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Egypt court convicts doctor of female genital mutilation - US News - 0 views
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CAIRO (AP) An Egyptian appeals court on Monday convicted a doctor of manslaughter and performing female genital mutilation that led to the death of a 13-year-old girl, sentencing him to two years and three months in prison in the country's first case that came to trial over the widespread practice, defense lawyers said.
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