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“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
By Prem Thakker
A young Palestinian man walks in the rubble following Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis, Gaza, on April 7. File photo
Israel is committing...
July 25th, 20220MARYLAND — A civil rights organization is welcoming the decision by the County Council in Maryland to remove a resolution that would have redefined anti-Semitism to include any criticism of well-documented human rights abuses by the Israeli occupation in Palestine.
Montgomery County, located just outside of Washington, D.C., is...
July 15th, 20220In his Middle East trip, President Biden reiterated his support for for a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, amid a backdrop of deep skepticism from Palestinians and international human rights groups that the U.S. leader is willing to give more than lip service to Palestinians living under a brutal occupation.
Biden met with...
December 3rd, 20210GENEVA – Activist groups called on the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to create a new panel of independent experts to collect and preserve evidence of possible war crimes by all sides in Yemen's bitter conflict for future prosecution.
Bahrain, Russia and other members of the U.N. Human Rights Council pushed through a vote in...
September 17th, 20210An alarming discovery that the Israeli spyware company NSO Group targeted an ordinary citizen’s iPhone yet again caused Apple to deliver an important security update to its users.
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said a security issue in Apple’s software was exploited to plant spyware on a Saudi...
July 19th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Israeli company's spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around the world, according to an investigation by 17 media organizations published on Sunday.
One of the organizations, The Washington Post, said the...
November 26th, 20190TEHRAN – After 143 people have reportedly died in protests in Iran over rising fuel prices, which took a particularly violent turn last week, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is threatening the U.S. and its allies against encroachments into the nation’s affairs.
General Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guard, told supporters...
