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• India: Rohingya deportation case: SC to examine key question on refugee status
  11 July 2019, by siawi3

  The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a key query by the centre about the refugee status of illegal immigrants. This was while the SC was hearing petitions filed by two Rohingya men against the deportation of over 40,000 people back to Myanmar.

• Europe : Migrants : Malte et l’Italie refusent le débarquement du navire humanitaire Open Arms
  10 août 2019, par siawi3

  « Nous ne nous reconnaissons pas dans cette Europe, dans ses Etats lâches, dans sa politique vide. La lutte pour leurs droits est également la lutte pour les nôtres. Aidez-nous »

• Sudan Crisis: Doctors Accuse Troops Of Rape After Treating Over 70 Cases Of Rape In Aftermath Of Attack On Protest
  14 June 2019, by siawi3

  Doctors believe that paramilitaries carried out more than 70 rapes during an attack on a protest camp in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, a week ago. More than 100 people were killed and as many as 700 injured in the attack last Monday on a sit-in and clashes afterwards, as paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces spread through the city to quell sporadic unrest.

• Sudan paramilitaries raped and assaulted protesters and medics
  4 June 2019, by siawi3

  “They are shooting … harassing and robbing people, anybody. They don’t care.” “There are beatings on the streets. It looks like a bunch of thugs. There has been sexual violence …” Harrowing details of rapes by the paramilitaries are also emerging, despite restrictions on communications in Sudan.

• Europe: Migration - European Policies Create New Dangers on Mediterranean
  25 June 2019, by siawi3

  In just a few years, the dreams of European immigration hardliners have become reality on the Mediterranean. Volunteer sea rescue operations have been shut down, and the route across the sea is more dangerous than ever. Solidarity is being prosecuted. “None of us has been prosecuted for helping white Europeans. The simple truth is that in intimidating and punishing those of us who have offered their solidarity to migrants, Europe has worked systematically and with precision to segregate, humiliate and isolate its weakest members—if not based on race and ethnicity de jure, then certainly de facto.”

• Once migrants on Mediterranean were saved by naval patrols. Now they have to watch as drones fly over
  13 September 2019, by siawi3

  Experts condemn move to aerial surveillance as an abrogation of ‘responsibility to save lives’. The EU is already accused of crimes against humanity in a submission before the International Criminal Court for “orchestrating a policy of forced transfer to concentration camp-like detention facilities [in Libya] where atrocious crimes are committed”.

• India: PUCL Statement Against lodging of FIR against Lawyers Collective & Senior Advocate Anand Grover
  21 June 2019, by siawi3

  PUCL demands that the state desist from these continuous attempts to browbeat the senior lawyers, Ms. Indira Jaisingh and Anand Grover, by embroiling them in multiple legal cases and procedures and misusing its powers to order the arrest and detention of all dissenters. PUCL demands that this witch-hunt against lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders cease forthwith.

• Algérie : Repression des dissidents
  2 juin 2019, par siawi3

  Je suis convoqué par la police judiciaire de Bouira afin de me présenter demain. Pour l’instant, j’ignore encore de quoi on m’accuse !

• One Of Europe’s Last Migrant Rescue Ships Defies Political Pressure To Save Lives
  7 June 2019, by siawi3

  Over nearly five years, the small German charity Sea-Watch has saved more than 37,000 lives. But xenophobia and repression threaten its survival. “Negative public media campaigns and defamation have had a massive impact on our ability to operate. Tragically, every single day that the ship is blocked from rescuing, people perish at sea.”

• They’re Murdering My Son: Father Of Julian Assange Tells Of Pain And Anguish
  27 September 2019, by siawi3

  John Shipton, the father of imprisoned whistleblower Julian Assange, says that if his son is extradited to the US, “They will murder Julian one way or the other.” After arriving from his home country of Australia, Shipton is visiting several European states, including Russia, to bring public attention to the persecution of Julian Assange by British authorities over his role as a publisher and author.

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