Israel Arrests Two Sisters, Dalal and Fatima, Of Slain Hamas Deputy Chief Saleh Al-Arouri
New Age
Islam News Bureau
15 January 2024
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Israel
Arrests Two Sisters, Dalal and Fatima, Of Slain Hamas Deputy Chief Saleh
Al-Arouri
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Iran Frees
Two Reporters, Niloufar Hamedi And Elaheh Mohammadi, Who Covered Death Of Amini
That Sparked Protests
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Women
Shaping Rugby History In Saudi Arabia
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Shukria
Barakzai, Former Afghan MP And Ambassador To Norway, Highlights Women’s Plight
Under Taliban
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‘Fraudulent
Marriage' Case: Bushra Bibi Moves IHC For Dismissal Of Plea By Ex-Husband, Khawar
Maneka
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Israel Arrests Two Sisters, Dalal and
Fatima, Of Slain Hamas Deputy Chief Saleh Al-Arouri
Dalal and
Fatima sisters Of Slain Hamas Deputy Chief Saleh Al-Arouri
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14 January, 2024
Israeli forces on Saturday arrested
Dalal and Fatima al-Arouri, sisters of Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas deputy chief
who was assassinated in Beirut earlier this month.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS)
told Anadolu Agency that the arrests took place after searches in Ramallah
Governorate and the city of Al-Bireh in the central West Bank on Saturday
night.
The PPS added that Dalal was taken from
her home in Arura, northwest of Ramallah, and Fatima from her residence in
Al-Bireh’s Al-Shorfa neighbourhood.
Israeli media reported that the women
were detained on charges of "inciting terror against the state of
Israel".
The Israeli army also arrested 15
workers, originally from Gaza and residing in the West Bank. These arrests
occurred in the Biddya municipality building following their expulsion from
their workplaces after October 7.
Israel's operations in the West Bank
have escalated since the start of the Gaza war, killing 347 Palestinians and
injuring 4,000, including 593 children, as per the Palestinian Ministry of
Health.
Prisoner affairs institutions report
that about 5,850 Palestinians have been arrested since October 7.
In Gaza, Palestinian health authorities
say that at least 23,843 Palestinians, predominantly women and children, have
been killed and 60,317 injured in the same period.
The UN reports that 85% of Gaza's
population is now internally displaced, facing severe shortages of food, clean
water, and medicine, with 60% of the region’s infrastructure damaged or
destroyed.
Source: newarab.com
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-arrests-two-sisters-hamas-chief-saleh-al-arouri
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Iran Frees Two Reporters, Niloufar
Hamedi And Elaheh Mohammadi, Who Covered Death Of Amini That Sparked Protests
Hamedi
(right in the image) and Mohammadi/Image: Sahand Taki/Sharq news online/AFP via
Getty Images
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January 15, 2024
Tehran: Iranian authorities on Sunday
freed two journalists who spent more than a year behind bars for covering the
death of Mahsa Amini, which sparked months-long nationwide protests, local
media said.
Niloufar Hamedi, 31, and Elaheh
Mohammadi, 36, were “released from Evin prison on bail,” according to the
reformist Shargh newspaper. Other outlets in Iran also reported their release.
Tasnim news agency said that each “will
pay a bail of 100 billion rials ($192,307).”
The journalists are appealing their
sentences of several years in prison, and Tasnim said they “will remain out of
jail until the appeals court makes a decision.”
They are also banned from travel abroad,
it said.
Images of the two journalists smiling
and holding hands outside the prison circulated on social media following their
release.
Mohammadi, a reporter for Ham Mihan
newspaper, and Hamedi, a photographer for Shargh newspaper, had been held in
Tehran’s Evin prison following Amini’s death in September 2022.
Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, had
been arrested for an alleged breach of strict dress rules for women. She died
in custody of the morality policy.
Hamedi was arrested less than a week
after Amini’s death when she went to the hospital where Amini was being treated
and posted a photo of the grieving family on social media.
Mohammadi was detained after going to
Amini’s hometown of Saqez, in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to
cover her funeral which turned into a demonstration.
In October, the judiciary’s Mizan Online
website said they were found guilty of collaboration with Iran’s arch enemy the
United States, conspiring against state security and propaganda against the
Islamic republic.
Mohammadi was subsequently given six
years in prison and Hamedi was handed a seven-year term for the same offence,
said Mizan.
The two also received five-year
sentences each for the conspiracy charges and one each for propaganda, the
website said, adding the sentences would be served concurrently.
In August, Iranian media reported that
authorities had questioned or arrested more than 90 journalists since the
protests triggered by Amini’s death in different cities erupted across the
country.
Hundreds of people, including dozens of
security personnel, were killed in the protests and thousands of demonstrators
were arrested, accused by the authorities of taking part in “riots” fomented by
the West.
Source: thenews.com.pk
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1148029-iran-frees-reporters-who-covered-death-of-amini-that-sparked-protests
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Women Shaping Rugby History In Saudi
Arabia
January 14, 2024
Maedeh Sharifi And Ali Khaled
RIYADH: The last five years have
witnessed a remarkable rise in the participation of women in sports across
Saudi Arabia.
Women’s departments in one sports
federation after another have been established, aiming to increase grassroots
participation in the short term, establish local competitions, and, in the long
term, rub shoulders with the world’s best on the international stage.
The latest to set its sights on forming
a competitive domestic scene is the Saudi Arabian Rugby Federation.
In late 2023 it established a women’s
department to increase female interest in the sport, which, historically, was
played by small communities of mostly male expatriates.
Today, Saudi women and girls get the
opportunity to try the sport first-hand through workshops and register for
training programs and games.
Sami Smara, technical director at the
Saudi Arabian Rugby Federation, told Arab News: “We (now) have 41 women players
and 20 girls U18 … in the Kingdom — they play only against each other.
“This February we will participate in
the Arab (Rugby) Sevens tournament hosted in the Kingdom at Taif, it will
(have) 10 men’s and eight women’s teams competing for the trophy. The U18’s
will participate in (the) Asia Tournament in August and the senior(s) will
compete this year in Asia Tournament (in) September and also at (the) next
Dubai International Sevens tournament,” he continued.
Twenty-six-year-old Aleya Abdullah
Bamakhrama, a health care administrator and ice hockey player, is one of the
female players training.
“I’m so happy that I’m playing multi-sports.
It’s helped me and I would like in the future to be a good professional player
as well, in these two sports,” she said.
By being on the rugby field, Bamakhrama
hopes to combat societal stereotypes associated with the sport and encourage
other women to get involved.
“The Saudi society, they say, (rugby) is
not for a female, it’s for men and no women should play,” she said. “But I’m
proud to start playing rugby and I will prove that rugby, it’s suitable for
women and men.
“I want everyone in my community to
believe that women can play anything any sport at any time and can achieve a
lot of goals,” Bamakhrama continued.
Ameera Saud Marghalani, a 17-year-old
high school student, first picked up a rugby ball when the federation conducted
a workshop at her school.
“Me and my friends were sitting in class
and our coach showed up,” she told Arab News. “We started passing the ball at
the beginning just to get familiar with what rugby is. And then later on we
started attending more classes, and now we’ve been training for four months.
“I think we can definitely prove a lot
of people wrong since we do have a lot of support and great coaches,”
Marghalani said.
She echoes the sentiments of the rest of
the players, who told Arab News that with the support system provided by the
federation, from its board members to its coaches, they are ready to defy all
odds.
“We definitely want to show everyone
that we can make it in such a tough sport” Marghalani said. “I think there’s a
great journey ahead of us really.”
Most of the female rugby training takes
place in Riyadh at playing fields facilitated by Irqah Sports Stadium and
Prince Nourah University.
Smara hopes that with more funding the
federation will be able to expand the popular training programs to more cities outside
of the capital.
Source: arabnews.com
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2441501/sport
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Shukria Barakzai, Former Afghan MP And
Ambassador To Norway, Highlights Women’s Plight Under Taliban
Fidel Rahmati
January 15, 2024
Shukria Barakzai, a former member of the
Afghan Parliament and former Afghan Ambassador to Norway, says that those who
do not speak up against the current situation are “cowardly” and “thoughtless.”
Ms. Barakzai raised this issue during an interview with Khaama Press Twitter
Space on Monday night, January 14, with the topic being “Increasing
restrictions on women in Afghanistan and its consequences.”
She referred to individuals who enjoy
personal rights and freedoms but speak in support of the Taliban regime as
“groups, institutions, and project grabbers,” emphasizing that their project
interests seem to outweigh the well-being of Afghan women. She recommended not
being surprised by such individuals’ actions.
Furthermore, according to Ms. Barakzai,
“men and women who are outside of Afghanistan” cannot comprehend the suffering
Afghan women endure, the poverty and misery prevalent in the country today, the
fear and anxiety that people live with, and the ruthless killings that have
been ongoing in Afghanistan for over four decades. They only seem to focus on
“security.”
Ms. Barakzai criticized the silence of
individuals who, in her opinion, once held high positions and benefited from
government and non-government resources. With the return of the Taliban, she
believes that these individuals, including some women and men, have “been added
to history, and no one listens to them.”
Recent detentions of women in Kabul and
the overall treatment of women by the Taliban administration have no legal,
human rights, or religious justification, according to Ms. Barakzai, and all of
them are based on allegations against women.
She added that the increase in suicides
and mental health problems among women reflects the depth of the tragedy
imposed on Afghan women and is the result of the Taliban’s anti-women policies
and the narrowing of opportunities for work and life.
Despite all this, according to Ms.
Barakzai, the Taliban has yet to respond to the legal and religious
restrictions against women in Afghanistan.
Although the Taliban claims to discuss
Sharia law regarding restrictions on women in Afghanistan, according to her,
Afghanistan is not the only Islamic country in the world, and the Taliban’s
policies towards all Islamic countries, even more conservative ones, have been
different. Ms. Barakzai added that the obstacles the Taliban presents as
cultural barriers contradict historical facts. Therefore, she believes that the
Taliban is using religion and culture for its own gain.
Ms. Barakzai questioned the term used by
Taliban officials as “legal actions,” asking which law they actually believe
in. She further added that the Taliban must have the courage to discuss these
issues with the Afghan people.
The restrictions and limitations against
women in Afghanistan have created solidarity among women
This former member of the Afghan
Parliament and former Ambassador to Norway continued to say that the
restrictions and limitations against women and girls in Afghanistan are not
only torture, deprivation of education for girls, and their detention but also
a mental, psychological, and societal torture of half of Afghanistan’s
population.
She added that the wounds inflicted by
the Taliban on the hearts of Afghan women will take a long time to heal. She
warned that if these pains turn into grudges, reopening them would be very
dangerous. The Taliban, with its outdated beliefs and repeating historical
mistakes, shortens its political life in Afghanistan and strengthens unity and
solidarity among Afghan women.
Ms. Barakzai also stated that in none of
the oral or written decrees of the Taliban is there any mention of progress in
education and knowledge, indicating the Taliban’s fear of progress and
education in Afghanistan.
Furthermore, she pointed out that no
political or military group has more power than the power of the people and
masses. She also emphasized that the Taliban cannot deceive the public by
adjusting projects such as the Qush Tepa canal, which had been planned
previously, as these projects were planned in the past and were delayed due to
the instability created by this group.
Shukria Barakzai concluded by saying
that restrictions in some cases have reverse results. She expressed hope that
these limitations would eventually unite more people and groups. She also noted
that people need to understand that they don’t always have to rely on others to
secure their rights; they should raise their voices themselves.
Dr.SurayaPaikan: The Taliban lacks faith
in the abilities and intellect of women
During the same discussion, Suraya
Paikan, another women’s rights activist participating on Khaama Press Twitter
Space, asserted that Afghan women have become victims of the self-serving
policies of the world, the region, and the country.
According to Ms. Paikan, the Taliban has
imposed a wave of restrictions on Afghan women, claiming to act based on
Islamic Sharia law, which recognizes various rights for women, including
political and social rights, the right to work, education, and more.
She added that the restriction and
confinement of women are one of the goals of the Taliban, undermining the
talents, capabilities, and intellect of non-believing women. She urged the
Taliban regime not to seek legitimacy through regional consent but rather
through the approval of the people. She stated that dissatisfaction does not
indicate approval of the current government but rather stems from fear and
exhaustion from war.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/shukria-barakzai-highlights-afghan-womens-plight-under-taliban/
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‘Fraudulent Marriage' Case: Bushra Bibi
Moves IHC For Dismissal Of Plea By Ex-Husband, Khawar Maneka
January 15, 2024
ISLAMABAD: Bushra Bibi, the wife of
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, Monday approached the
Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking dismissal of the plea filed by ex-husband
Khawar Maneka against the "fraudulent marriage' between her and the PTI
chief.
Maneka, last month, filed a petition
against the “un-Islamic” marriage between Khan and Bushra Bibi in a district
and sessions court in Islamabad. The development came only a day after
petitioner Muhamad Hanif withdrew a similar petition challenging the nikah of
the PTI chief “due to technical reasons”.
However, Bushra Bibi, via her lawyer
Barrister Salman Akram Raja, has moved the IHC with her plea dismissing the
admissibility of the case and stating that a trial court has no jurisdiction to
hear it.
In her plea, she mentioned that in their
judgments the high courts declared marriages in iddat to be irregular, not
annulled.
The petition further contested that
Bushra's ex-husband filed a complaint under malice for nefarious purposes,
falsely alleging marriage during iddat on the basis of false and fabricated
documents.
According to Maneka, the petition read,
he divorced Bushra on November 14, 2017, and had verbally divorced her thrice
on April 15, 2017. While the former first lady moved to her mother's house in
August 2017, and stayed there till her marriage with PTI founder on January 1,
2018.
In her plea to IHC, Khan's wife has
sought to declare "null and void" the order of the additional
sessions judge East on January 11.
The case, it added, should be dismissed
and proceedings of the trial court should be stayed pending the decision on the
application.
Maneka's plea against 'fraudulent
marriage'
Bushra's ex-husband termed the nikkah as
fraudulent, saying the marriage was solemnised during her iddat (the time a
woman goes into isolation after a divorce or her husband's death).
“That above said nikah and the marriage
ceremony was neither legal nor Islamic as it was solemnised without observing
iddah period…,” read the petition available with Geo.tv.
In his petition against the fraudulent
marriage, Maneka reiterated the allegations that he made in the interview,
accusing PTI chief Imran of ruining his entire life, “stigmatised the
complainant and his family just to achieve his unethical and immoral objects
through intrusion in complainant's peaceful marital life..”
“In light of above, it is humbly prayed
that respondents No.1 [Imran Khan] and 2 [Bushra Bibi] be summoned and punished
strictly in accordance with law in the interest of justice,” the petitioner
prayed to the court.
Maneka has also recorded his statement
before the civil judge and a hearing of the case has fixed been for November 28
Mufti Saeed, Aun Chaudhry, and Muhammad
Latif have been nominated as witnesses in the petition.
Source: thenews.com.pk
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1148058-fraudulent-marriage-case-bushra-bibi-moves-ihc-for-dismissal-of-plea-by-ex-husband
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