NOVANEWS By: Joe Emersberger Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during a conference in Beirut January 29, 2015 That the organization needs basic points explained suggests that it applies human rights selectively. The quote above is […]
NOVANEWS Authorities in Sweden, which is seeking the Australian journalist’s extradition to face allegations of sexual assault, admitted there is a possibility that measures could be taken to jumpstart the stalled legal proceedings against Assange. […]
NOVANEWS Mada Masr Fourteen-year-old Akram al-Sawy was detained in the early hours of Tuesday along with his father, following testimony he gave on torture at a Central Security Forces camp in Banha, according to Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation […]
NOVANEWS Nazi army launched a major detention campaign in the northern West Bank refugee camps of Balata and Askar in Nablus district overnight, Palestinian security sources said. More than 15 young men were seized after […]
NOVANEWS More than a hundred detainees remain in military prison, while many of those named in last year’s US Senate torture report remain unaccounted for. By Nadia Prupis A detainee is escorted to interrogation by U.S. […]
NOVANEWS Dianne Feinstein.(AFP Photo / Drew Angerer) An in-depth investigation into vital unanswered questions raised by the US Senate’s startling report on CIA torture and rendition has been launched in the UK. The probe is […]
NOVANEWS By James M. Dorsey The adoption of a human rights declaration by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that was designedto shield wealthy Gulf monarchies including 2022 World Cup host Qatar from criticism by humanrights and […]
NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr Four of the states in the US have a higher prison population per 100,000 than any nation abroad. By Simran Khosla State incarceration numbers The incarceration rate in the US is the […]
NOVANEWS A report by Defense for Children International (DCI) published in May 2014 revealed that Zio-Nazi jails 20 percent of Palestinian children it detains in solitary confinement. By Al Akhbar Tariq Abu Khdeir is hugged by […]
NOVANEWS Alevi demonstrators shout anti-government slogans during a protest against violence in Okmeydani, a working-class district in the center of Istanbul, May 25, 2014. (photo by REUTERS/Murad Sezer). Tragedies from Turkey’s recent past are returning to the […]