Iraq’s Iran-Backed Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Militia ‘Congratulates’ Houthis On UAE Attack
New Age Islam News Bureau
19 January 2022
Lana Nusseibeh (R),
Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN. (Twitter/UAE MissionToUN)
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• Religious Seer Of Kaali Mutt Gave Call To Demolish
Mosque On The Lines Of Babri Masjid, Arrested In Karnataka
• Islamic Emirate-Led Government Believes In Media
Freedom: IEA Reacts To A Statement By the Free Speech Hub
• Turkey’s Erdogan Signals Thaw With Israel After
Years Of Tension
• Texas Hostage-Taker British National Had No Criminal
Record: Official In Pakistan
Arab
World
• 12th Century Prayer Room Found Under The Al-Nuri
Mosque -- Where The Islamic State Group Once Proclaimed Their
"Caliphate"
• UAE An Oasis Of Tolerance, Security, Safety, Says
Grand Imam Of Al Azhar In Phone Call With Abdullah Bin Zayed
• As Shia rivals jostle in Iraq, Sunni and Kurdish
parties targeted
• Saudi Arabia’s Khalid bin Salman: We strive to bring
Yemen within GCC system
• After attack on Abu Dhabi, UAE tells UNSC Yemen’s
Houthis spread terrorism in region
• Arab Coalition strikes kill 80 Houthi ‘terrorists,’
destroy nine vehicles in Yemen
• Egyptian delegation visits Israel for Gaza talks
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India
• IUML And Other Muslim Organisations Say CPM Student Wing Promotes Sexual Anarchy Under
The Ideology Of Liberalism
• BJP MLA Attends Event in Support of Yati
Narsinghanand, Featuring Calls for 'End of Islam'
• Muslims For Secular Democracy Writes To PM On Dharam
Sansad
• MP: Muslim man travelling with Hindu woman taken off
train by Bajrang Dal workers
• Muslim youth killed, another injured by Hindutva
goons in Karnataka
• Terror suspect arrested in Poonch
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South
Asia
• Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Asks Taliban
Commanders Not To Seek Revenge On Previous Officers
• IEA to convene Economic Conference in Kabul
• Two killed in Taliban’s gunfire in western Herat
province
• IEA asks Norway to take lead in recognition
• Earthquake in western Afghanistan kills 28,
destroyed 800 homes
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Mideast
• Iran's Quds Force Commander Visits Iraq 'To Unify
Shia Parties': Sources
• Iran Holds Trial of Ringleader of Separatist
Terrorist Group
• FM: Iran Pursuing “Asia First” Policy
• Official: Over 500 Iranian Thalassemic Patients Fall
Victim to US Sanctions
• Spokesman: Development of Exports, Trade Main Focus
of Iranian President’s Visit to Russia
• Israel extends detention of ill Palestinian teenager
Amal Nakhleh
• Relieving Iran sanctions would lead to ‘terror on
steroids’: Israel PM
• Rebel commander killed in Saudi-led airstrike in
Yemen
• Hamas delegation in Algeria for talks on healing
Palestinian rift
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Pakistan
• Pakistan PM Imran Khan a ‘religion exploiter’:
Opposition PML-N
• Pak sent ISI official to Turkey to meet Afghan
leaders, offer talks with Taliban
• Protest against abduction of Christian girls in
Pakistan
• Terror has come to the capital, interior minister
fears
• Security forces neutralise two terrorists in North
Waziristan
• Pakistan Taliban claim overnight attacks on police
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North
America
• Texas Synagogue Hostage Suspect's 'Extreme' Views
Surfaced At Jailhouse Mosque After 2012 Theft Conviction
• As a Muslim Hebrew teacher, the Texas synagogue
hostage attack made me anxious and sad
• US Treasury Department sanctions Hezbollah-linked
individuals, company
• Dubai's Emirates suspends flights to several US
destinations on 5G concerns
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Europe
• Central Mosque Of Brent Launches Breathe Easy
Support Group
• French Anti-Islam Candidate Convicted Over Racist
Remarks
• Turkey’s Erdogan warns Russia against invading
Ukraine
• Swiss prosecutor's office launches case over banner
targeting Turkish president
• Killing or injuring of protestors by Sudan security
forces 'serious concern' for UN
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Southeast
Asia
• Govt Leaving Shariah Judge Sexual Harassment Case To
Cops
• Malaysia's Muslim Council of Elders condemns Houthi
terrorist attack on civil facilities in UAE
• Joko Widodo lauds Indonesia's oldest Catholic
university
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Africa
• Imo Govt Opens Up On Alleged Miyetti Allah Vigilante
Operation
• Pray, carry emergency bag, advises Kenyan priest
caught in terror attack
• Sudanese barricade streets, close shops after seven
people killed
• Suicide bomb blast in Somali capital kills at least
4
• Libyan speaker’s call for new constitution panel
draws fire
• 15 al-Shabaab terrorists killed in Kenya
• Tunisian president extends state of emergency for 1
month
• Sudan orders investigation into protester deaths
Compiled by New
Age Islam News Bureau
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Iraq’s Iran-Backed Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Militia
‘Congratulates’ Houthis On UAE Attack
Lana Nusseibeh (R),
Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN. (Twitter/UAE MissionToUN)
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18 January ,2021
Iraq’s Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia
congratulated Yemen’s Houthi militia for its drone attack on the UAE’s capital
Abu Dhabi which killed three people, the Shia militia’s leader Qais al-Khazali
said.
The UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi was rocked on Monday when
drone attacks led to a fire breaking out and resulted in the explosion of three
petroleum tankers, killing three people and wounding six others. There was also
another fire that broke out in the area of the new construction site of Abu
Dhabi International Airport.
Yemen’s Houthi militia claimed responsibility for the
attack saying it conducted an operation “deep in the UAE”.
UAE’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed vowed
that the attack “will not go unpunished,” and the ministry said the country
“reserves the right to respond to those terrorist attacks and sinister criminal
escalation.”
“We congratulate the oppressed brothers in Yemen [the
Houthis] on the glory and steadfastness. They are defending their country and
their people against the unjust aggression of an unjust coalition,” Khazali
said, referring to the Arab Coalition – led by Saudi Arabia and of which the
UAE is a member – to restore the legitimacy of the internationally recognized
government of Yemen.
Asaib Ahl al-Haq was designated as a terrorist
organization by the US in 2020, and the State Department said it was heavily
funded and trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force.
Iraq’s Asaib Ahl al-Haq and Yemen’s Houthis are both
Shia militias supported by Iran.
Gulf countries have long accused Tehran of fanning the
flames of violence in the Middle East through financial and military support to
its network of Shia proxies in the region, specifically in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria
and Yemen.
Khazali, who is himself designated by the US as a
global terrorist, commended what he described as the Houthis’ “tremendous
progress in the power of deterrence.”
He criticized the UAE for normalizing ties with Israel
back in 2020 as part of the US-brokered Abraham Accords, and alleged that the
UAE interfered in Iraq’s internal affairs.
“We warn the rulers of the UAE… against the
consequences of their continuing interference in internal Iraqi affairs and
sowing seeds of strife and division among our honourable people,” he said.
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Religious Seer Of Kaali Mutt Gave Call To Demolish
Mosque On The Lines Of Babri Masjid, Arrested In Karnataka
Rishikumara Swamy
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19th January 2022
BENGALURU: Karnataka Police on Tuesday arrested a
religious seer who gave a call to demolish a mosque in Srirangapatna town in
Mandya district on the lines of Babri Masjid.
Rishikumar Swamiji of Kaali Mutt has made a video in
front of the mosque in Srirangapatna, and made a public appeal that the mosque
should be demolished as it is built over a temple.
He had also claimed in the video that the pillars,
walls and kalyani (water body) inside the premises of mosque symbolise Hindu
architecture.
He said that Hindus should demolish it immediately.
The video was put out on his social media account and
it drew sharp reactions.
Srirangapatna police have gone to the mutt located in
Chikkamagalur district and took Rishikumar Swamiji into their custody and
presented him before the local court.
The counsel for Swamiji argued that the statements
made by his client are not controversial.
"He had put out his pain after seeing the traces
of temples in the mosque," the advocate stated.
However, the counsel for the government argued that
his bail petition should not be considered in view of his release leading to
communal disharmony and destruction of evidences.
The court has reserved the judgment for Wednesday.
Source: New Indian Express
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Islamic Emirate-Led Government Believes In Media
Freedom: IEA Reacts To A Statement By the Free Speech Hub
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Jan 19, 2022
A spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, reacting to a
statement about restrictions on the media by the Free Speech Hub, said that the
Islamic Emirate has no policy of interfering with media, and the Islamic
Emirate-led government believes in media freedom.
This comes after the Free Speech Hub, a
media-supporting organization in Afghanistan, expressed concerns over media
freedom, saying that the media in Afghanistan has not been completely free
since the fall of the republican government, and journalists face systematic
censorship.
The Free Speech Hub statement says that the media
faces restrictions besides the economic problems that have greatly increased
since the collapse of the former government, and forces affiliated with the
Islamic Emirate’s intelligence body are putting pressure on the media and
journalists.
“Afghanistan media and journalists are under pressure
by the intelligence forces of the Islamic Emirate and they are trying to compel
media and journalists to censor themselves,”
the Free Media Hub said.
The deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, Inamullah
Samangani, has overruled the statement and any interference into media affairs.
“We are making efforts to create good coordination
with the media and (give) good opportunities for them to survive and continue
their activities. The presence of a free media is necessary for a good and
accountable society,” said Samangani.
At the same time, officials at media-supporting
organizations urged the Islamic Emirate to respect media freedom.
“Any kind of interference with media activities and
affairs is a step toward violating media’s independence and freedom, and this
is a source of concern for the Afghanistan National Journalists Union,” said
Masror Lotfi, head of the Afghanistan’s National Journalists' Union.
“As the free Speech Hub reported--and expressed
concerns--these problems truly exist and there are some efforts to impose
restrictions on media and journalists by some organizations,” said Hujatullah
Mujadid, head of the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association AIJA.
The Free Speech Hub was established at the beginning
of the current solar year by Afghan media officials and journalists.
Source: Tolo News
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Turkey’s Erdogan Signals Thaw With Israel After Years
Of Tension
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
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18 January ,2022
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled an
emerging thaw with Israel after more than a decade of heightened tensions,
throwing his support behind a critical energy project involving the once-close
allies.
On his way home from Albania late Monday, Erdogan
acknowledged talks with Israel’s leaders, and said officials could revive
negotiations on a planned pipeline that would carry natural gas from the
eastern Mediterranean to Europe via Turkey.
“We are having talks with Israeli President Isaac
Herzog. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is also sending messages at different
levels, Erdogan said, noting he recently received a delegation of Middle
Eastern rabbis. “If we are going to do politics, it can’t be done through
confrontation. We have to pursue politics along the path of peace.
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A group of nations including Egypt, Cyprus, Greece and
are cooperating on producing and transporting gas discovered in the region, but
Turkey’s exploration activities in contested Mediterranean waters have largely
left it out in the cold.
More recently, rifts with Russia, the election of
Erdogan critic Joe Biden as U.S. president, and the threat of American and
European sanctions have all forced Turkey to try to repair troubled relations
with traditional western allies and regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia.
The diplomacy comes at a time when Turkey’s struggling
economy and skyrocketing inflation threaten Erdogan’s popularity ahead of a
2023 general election.
The president’s remarks suggest an effort to heal ties
with Israel, too. Relations nosedived after 2010, when a Turkish flotilla bound
for the Gaza Strip was raided by Israeli commandos, resulting in the deaths of
10 civilians.
Israeli Settlements Obstacle to Normalized Ties,
Turkey Says
Ankara has been critical of Israel’s policies toward
the Palestinians, while Israel charges Turkey with supporting Hamas, the
Islamic militant group that rules the Gaza Strip.
Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador to Ankara in
May 2018 and recalled its own envoys from Israel and the US after Israeli
soldiers killed nearly 60 Palestinians protesting the transfer of the American
embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
While Turkey’s envoy returned to Washington about two
weeks later, Turkey and Israel have conducted diplomatic contacts at the level
of charge d’affaires ever since.
Source: Al Arabiya
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Texas Hostage-Taker British National Had No Criminal
Record: Official In Pakistan
Texas hostage-taker British
national Malik Faisal Akram
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January 18, 2022
No criminal records of British national Malik Faisal
Akram were found in Pakistan, who held four people hostage inside a Texas
synagogue and demanded releasing Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani doctor
imprisoned in the United States.
According to police, Akram, who was shot dead by the
FBI during an operation, had visited Pakistan eleven times from 2007 to 2020,
but no records of his affiliation with a religious party or involvement in
criminal activities were found in the country.
Sources revealed that the British national’s ancestral
house was located in Jehlum, while his father also visits Pakistan from the
United Kingdom from time to time.
Sources further said that Faisal’s wedding ceremony
was held in Jehlum, while his wife and children live separately in the United
Kingdom.
Faisal, who was reportedly armed with “backpacks
containing explosives”, had demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui. He told the
police that Aafia was his sister.
He had initially taken four people hostage at a Texas
synagogue, including the rabbi, while one hostage was released unharmed six
hours later.
Source: Pakistan Today
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12th Century Prayer Room Found Under The Al-Nuri
Mosque -- Where The Islamic State Group Once Proclaimed Their
"Caliphate"
18 January 2022
The foundations of a prayer hall from the 12th century
have been discovered under the Al-Nuri mosque -- where the Islamic State group
once proclaimed their "caliphate" -- in Iraq's Mosul, site managers
said Tuesday.
The mosque, which along with its iconic leaning
minaret was severely damaged by IS during the battle to dislodge the jihadists
from Mosul in 2017, has been undergoing reconstruction.
The prayer room was found during excavation underneath
the mosque, according to Khaireddine Nasser, director of the department of
antiquities and heritage in Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital.
Four additional rooms for the performance of ablutions
were also discovered under the prayer room, Nasser said.
Those rooms "are interconnected and built of
stone and plaster".
The discovery allows for "better knowledge of the
surface of Al-Nuri mosque and this ancient prayer room, but also the ablution
basins" found there.
Each ablution room measures three metres (almost 10
feet) in height and 3.5 metres in width, Nasser said.
"They are about six metres underground," he
added.
He said the discovery "amplifies the importance
of this historical and archaeological site".
The excavation was carried out by his department, with
support from UNESCO and funding from the United Arab Emirates.
"The foundations of the old prayer hall are more
extensive than those of the prayer hall built in the 1940s", he added.
The mosque was constructed in 1172, but much of it was
destroyed and reconstructed in 1942, with the exception of its minaret, which
endured.
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UAE an oasis of tolerance, security, safety, says
Grand Imam of Al Azhar in phone call with Abdullah bin Zayed
18-01-2022
ABU DHABI, 18th January, 2022 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh
Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation, received a phone call from the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr. Ahmed
Al-Tayeb.
The Grand Imam affirmed his strong condemnation of the
terrorist attack by the terrorist Houthi militia on civil facilities in the
UAE, extending his sincere condolences to the families of the victims and
expressing his wishes for a speedy recovery for the injured.
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As Shia rivals jostle in Iraq, Sunni and Kurdish
parties targeted
18 January, 2022
As Iraq's Shia leaders jostle to secure a majority in
the newly-elected parliament, Sunni and Kurdish minorities have been caught up
in a spate of warning grenade attacks, analysts say.
In recent days, unknown attackers have hurled grenades
at Kurdish and Sunni targets including political party offices and a lawmaker's
home - groups that could help Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr win the critical
parliamentary majority needed to make his choice of prime minister.
"It is a way of punishing the forces that have
allied with Moqtada al-Sadr to form a parliamentary majority," said
political scientist Ihsan al-Shammari.
"Their message is political," he added,
calling the attacks "part of the mode of political pressure" adopted
by some groups.
In multi-confessional and multi-ethnic Iraq, the
formation of governments has involved complex negotiations since the 2003
US-led invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
No single party holds an outright majority, so the
next leader will be voted in by whichever coalition can negotiate allies to
become the biggest bloc- which then elects Iraq's president, who then appoints
a prime minister.
In previous parliaments, parties from Iraq's Shia
majority have struck compromise deals to work together and form a government,
with an unofficial system whereby the prime minister is Shiite, the president
is a Kurd and the speaker of parliament is Sunni.
But al-Sadr, who once led an anti-US militia and who
opposes all foreign interference, has repeatedly said the next prime minister
will be chosen by his movement.
So rather than strike an alliance with the powerful
Shia Coordination Framework - which includes the pro-Iran Fatah alliance, the
political arm of the former paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi - Sadr has forged a
new coalition.
That includes two Sunni parties, Taqadum and Azm, as
well as the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
It has infuriated the Coordination Framework -- who
insist their grouping is bigger.
In recent days, grenades have been lobbed at the home
of a Taqadum lawmaker, as well as at the party offices of Azm, Taqadum and the
KDP in Baghdad.
On Sunday, flashbang stun grenades were hurled into
the branches of two Kurdish banks in the capital Baghdad- wounding two people.
The heads of both banks are said to be close to
political leaders in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdistan region.
There has already been unrest following the election,
with Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi escaping unhurt when an explosive-packed
drone hit his residence in November during what his office called an
"assassination attempt."
No group has claimed the attack.
While the culprits of the recent grenade blasts have
also not been identified, a security source charged that the attacks
"convey the messages of the parties that lost in the elections".
The purpose, the security source claimed, is to
"disrupt the formation of the government"- implicitly pointing to the
Coordination Framework, and in particular the Fatah alliance.
Fatah lost much of its political capital in the
October 10 polls, having secured only 17 seats, compared to the 48 it had
before.
It alleged the vote was rigged, but Iraq's top court
rejected a complaint of electoral irregularities filed by Hashed.
Hashed, which maintains an arsenal of weapons,
fighters and supporters, has sought a variety of ways to make itself heard
outside parliament, including demonstrations and sit-ins.
"Rather than accepting defeat at the polls, they
threaten violence," said Lahib Higel, of the International Crisis Group.
Sadr has considered striking deals with certain
members of the Coordination Framework, such as Fatah chief Hadi al-Ameri, at
the expense of other figures in the bloc, such as former prime minister Nuri
al-Maliki, Higel said.
Source: The New Arab
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Saudi Arabia’s Khalid bin Salman: We strive to bring
Yemen within GCC system
19 January ,2022
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Defense Prince
Khalid Bin Salman said on Tuesday that the Kingdom and Gulf countries are
striving to bring Yemen within the GCC system so that its people can enjoy
security and stability.
“The Kingdom and the Arab Gulf states seek to bring
Yemen within the GCC system so that its people can enjoy security, stability
and development like other Gulf nations. However, the Houthi militias chose
terrorism and destruction and used the people of Yemen as firewood that serves the
Iranian regime’s agenda. We assure the people of Yemen that they are from us
and we are from them and we will always be on their side,” the Prince said in a
tweet.
He added that Houthi militias employ “false promises
and repetitive illusions” to “deceive” Yemenis and “recruit them into a deadly
war.”
“The time has come for Yemeni wisdom, and the wise men
of Yemen, to forsake those illusions and promises, and to preserve the free
people of Yemen from the tampering of terrorist militias,” the Prince said.
Prince Khalid’s statements come a day after the UAE’s
capital Abu Dhabi was rocked on Monday when drone attacks led to a fire
breaking out and resulted in the explosion of three petroleum tankers, killing
three people and wounding six others. There was also another fire that broke
out in the area of the new construction site of Abu Dhabi International
Airport.
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After attack on Abu Dhabi, UAE tells UNSC Yemen’s
Houthis spread terrorism in region
18 January ,2022
The UAE wrote a letter to the UN Security Council on
Tuesday condemning Yemen’s Houthi attack on Abu Dhabi which killed three people
and said the Iran-backed militia “spreads terrorism” in the region.
“The UAE strongly condemns the Houthis’ targeting of
civilians and civilian objects in flagrant violation of international law,”
said Lana Nusseibeh, Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN.
“This illegal and alarming escalation is a further
step in the Houthis’ efforts to spread terrorism and chaos in our region. It is
another attempt by the Houthis, using the capabilities they have unlawfully
acquired in defiance of UN sanctions, to threaten peace and security,” she
added.
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The UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi was rocked on Monday when
drone attacks led to a fire breaking out and resulted in the explosion of three
petroleum tankers, killing three people and wounding six others. There was also
another fire that broke out in the area of the new construction site of Abu
Dhabi International Airport.
Yemen’s Houthi militia claimed responsibility for the
attack saying it conducted an operation “deep in the UAE.”
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Arab Coalition strikes kill 80 Houthi ‘terrorists,’
destroy nine vehicles in Yemen
18 January ,2022
Arab Coalition strikes in Marib against the
Iran-backed Houthis have killed 80 “terrorists” and destroyed nine military
vehicles in the last 24 hours, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported
on Tuesday.
The latest update was part of 17 targeted strikes
carried out by the coalition one day after the Iran-backed Houthis attacked the
UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.
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A construction site at Abu Dhabi’s new airport
extension, and an oil facility caught fire on Monday morning, causing an
explosion in three oil tankers. Police said the incidents were possibly caused
by drones.
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed later
described the incidents as “terrorist attacks and [a] sinister criminal
escalation,” adding that they “will not go unpunished.”
The fires were a rare instance of attacks on UAE soil.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks
in a statement released on Monday.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis launched dozens of
cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia throughout 2021.
In September 2021, the Houthis intensified their
efforts to take Marib, a provincial capital which is the government’s last
northern stronghold.
The Iran-backed militia frequently target civilian
areas and energy facilities in the Kingdom with explosive-laden drones and
ballistic missiles.
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Egyptian delegation visits Israel for Gaza talks
Abdel Ra'ouf D. A. R. Arnaout
18.01.2022
JERUSALEM
An Egyptian security delegation arrived in Israel on
Tuesday for talks on the situation in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli
media.
The delegation will meet with top Israeli officials to
discuss Gaza reconstruction along with advancing the issue of missing Israeli
soldiers, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported.
There was no official comment from Egyptian or Israeli
authorities on the report.
Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which rules the
Gaza Strip, is believed to hold four Israelis, two of whom were captured
following the 2014 Israeli offensive on the seaside territory. Two other
Israelis are believed to have been held after they entered Gaza under unclear
circumstances.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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India
IUML And Other Muslim Organisations Say CPM Student Wing Promotes Sexual Anarchy
Under The Ideology Of Liberalism
19th January 2022
KOZHIKODE: Opening a new front in its offensive
against CPM, the IUML has targeted the Left party’s student wing SFI for
“spreading sexual anarchy and the ideology of liberalism” on the campuses, and
got spontaneous support from other Muslim organisations, including those owing
allegiance to Kanthapuram Abu Becker Mussaliyar.
The SFI unit at the LBS College of Engineering,
Kasaragod, had brought out posters ostensibly promoting same-sex love a few
weeks ago. Another poster showed a male student holding the hand of a Muslim
girl with the caption “Let us chain the hands of pseudo morality.”
“Instead of talking politics, Left organisations are
engaged in propagating love and free sex on capmuses. The Communist agenda is
to attract youth to the party,” said IUML high-powered committee member
Panakkad Syed Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal.
He was inaugurating the Muslim Yough League state executive camp at Munnar in
Idukki district on Monday.
Earlier this month, the League had used a marriage in
Kannur between a Muslim girl and a Hindu boy from a Communist family as a
propaganda material to campaign against the threat faced by the Muslim
community ‘from atheists and irreligious groups’.
Orchestrated campaign against SFI: Sachin Dev
The orientation camp, conducted by the Wisdom Islamic
Organisation in Kozhikode two days ago, cautioned against the attempts to
demolish the family system and promote sexual anarchy. Without naming the SFI,
a statement from Wisdom said certain youth and students’ organisations were
propagating irreligious attitudes and liberalism in society.
Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (Markazudawa) asked the
CPM to control the dangerous attempts by its students’ outfit to support moral
degeneration including homosexuality. It vowed to protect the uniqueness of
Kerala which is deep-rooted in faith and morality. Significantly, the
Kanthapuram group of Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (SYS) and Sunni Students
Organisation (SSF), which politically supports the CPM, have also come out
against the SFI.
The leaders’ camp of the SYS held at Kayamkulam
recently deplored the efforts of the secular organisations to destroy the moral
values existing in society. SSF state committee said Left student organisations
were desperately trying to keep themselves afloat in the mainstream by clinging
on to the concept of free sex.
“Their gimmicks focusing on sexuality will give an
impression that poverty of sex is the greatest problem on the campuses,” SSF
said. SFI state secretary and MLA K M Sachin Dev, however, clarified the
organisation had not taken any stand on these controversial issues.
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BJP MLA Attends Event in Support of Yati
Narsinghanand, Featuring Calls for 'End of Islam'
Jan 19, 2022
New Delhi: Upset over police action on calls for
genocide at the Haridwar Dharma Sansad, Hindutva religious leaders organised a
Pratikar Sabha (revenge meet) at the Swami Sarvanand Ghat in Haridwar on
Sunday.
Those attending criticised police officers and the
Uttarakhand chief minister for the arrests of Yati Narsinghanand Giri (formerly
Saraswati) and Jitendra Narayan Tyagi (aka Waseem Rizvi). The mahamandleshwar
of the Niranjani Akhada, Pooja Shakun Pandey (aka Annapurna Bharti) declared
that another Dharma Sansad would take place in Aligarh on January 22-23, 2022.
Also present at the event was current Aligarh MLA Anil
Parashar. He is the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Aligarh for the
upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly election.
Even as Union minister for minority affairs Mukhtar
Abbas Naqvi called for stringent action against those who made hate speeches at
the Haridwar event, Parashar shared photos from the event on his timeline. In
other photos, he was seen taking blessings from Pandey, who is also accused of
making hate speeches.
Swami Anand Swaroop, one of the extremist leaders who
called for the killing of Muslims at the Haridwar event, sat on a fast to
demand the release of Tyagi and Narsinghanand. He called those priests and
seers who did not attend the Pratikar Sabha “cowards” and “impotent”. In the
Sabha, Swaroop asked the audience members at Sarvanand Ghat, “After the
partition of India, what right do believers of Islam have to live in India?
They have their own Islamic Republic of Pakistan.”
He classified the partition as a conspiracy to make
Hindus extinct, and defended the hateful speeches at the Haridwar Dharma Sansad
as “self-defence”.
He further said, “Our efforts will gradually become a
ball of flames, and will turn into a huge fire against Islam and jihad.” His
statement was received by other priests and religious leaders with cheers.
He claimed that Dharma Sansads would not stop until
Islam is “finished”. He also sent a warning to the chief minister of
Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, for “filing false cases against priests”
after the Dharma Sansad, going on to say “till the end of Islamic jihadis and
jihad supporting chief minister, our trishuls (tridents) will keep moving
forward”.
According to a Dainik Jagran report, Annapurna Bharti
called the arrest of Tyagi and Narsinghanand “unfortunate”, and along with
others, sat on a hunger strike.
“Under the pressure of jihadis, the government and the
Haridwar administration have violated the constitutional rights of Hindus.
Hindus have been sent to jail under those sections in which there is no arrest.
It is definitely an attempt to crush the supporters of Sanatan Dharma (Hindu
faith),” she was reported to have said.
At the Haridwar Dharma Sansad, she had made an
unambiguous call for murdering Muslims en masse. “Nothing is possible without
weapons. If you want to eliminate their population then kill them,” she had
said while giving a call to arms. “Even if 100 of us are ready to kill 20 lakhs
of them (Muslims), then we will be victorious, and go to jail.”
The Pratikar Sabha was originally called by Yati
Narsinghanand, but he was arrested on Saturday by the Uttarakhand police in two
separate cases, one for insulting women and one for hate speech. According to a
report by BBC Hindi, due to the continuous calls for the creation of a Hindu rashtra
and “cleaning of Muslims” at the Dharma Sansad event, several Hindu leaders
maintained a distance from the Pratikar Sabha.
Source: The Wire
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Muslims For Secular Democracy Writes To PM On Dharam
Sansad
Jan 19, 2022
MUMBAI: Anguished at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
silence over the genocidal call against a community given at a recent Dharam
Sansad in Haridwar, members of Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD), a
think-tank, has alleged that his silence speaks volumes, reports Mohammed
Wajihuddin.
"PM Modi's silence over the genocide call speaks
volumes. Despite growing demand nationally and internationally that he must
speak, and his government must act in exemplary fashion against members of the
Dharam Sansad who called for the genocide of Indian Muslims, the PM has chosen
to keep quiet," said the thnk-tank's convener Javed Anand.
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MP: Muslim man travelling with Hindu woman taken off
train by Bajrang Dal workers
January 19, 2022
A Muslim man and a married Hindu woman who were
travelling together were forcibly taken off an Ajmer-bound train by members of
Bajrang Dal and handed over to the railway police station in Ujjain.
The Bajrang Dal members, who accused the man of “love
jihad”, assaulted him as they forcibly took him off the train.
The two passengers, family friends from Indore, were
questioned by Government Railway Police (GRP) and made to sit at the police
station until their parents arrived. They were let off after their statements
were recorded.
No offence was registered against the Bajrang Dal
members as there was no complainant, according to the GRP.
The incident took place on January 14. While the man
was identified as Asif Shaikh, owner of a small electronic shop, the woman is a
private schoolteacher.
In one of the videos of the incident, which went viral
on social media, three men who identified themselves as Bajrang Dal workers are
seen dragging Shaikh out of the train coach. As they take him to the police
station, the woman is seen walking behind them.
In another video recorded inside the police station,
the woman is seen screaming at the Bajrang Dal men. “Your one misunderstanding
can spoil my life. I’m an adult, I work as a teacher in a school, I teach
children,” she says. One of the Bajrang Dal men, identified as Pintu Kaushal,
is seen telling her that he was not talking to her.
GRP Superintendent of Police Nivedita Gupta said
Shaikh and the woman were family friends and had known each other for years.
“After they were brought in to the police station by Bajrang Dal men, who
alleged ‘love jihad’, we recorded their statements and as they were both adults
and there was no offence, they were let go,” said Gupta.
She said no case was registered against the Bajrang
Dal workers. “We were not aware that the man was mishandled in any way while
being brought to the police station and neither did the two tell us. As there
was no complaint against the Bajrang Dal men, we have not registered any
offence.”
Kundan Chandrawat, Prachar Pramukh for Malwa Prant of
VHP, of which Bajrang Dal is the students’ wing, said there was “information
through reliable sources that a Hindu woman was being misled by a Muslim man
and taken along with him”.
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Muslim youth killed, another injured by Hindutva goons
in Karnataka
18th January 2022
Karnataka: Two Muslim youth were attacked by goons of
the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) on Monday evening in Gadag district.
The youths were identified as 21-year-old Shamsheer,
and, 19-year-old Sameer who succumbed to his injuries at the Karnataka
Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS). Shamsheer continues to remain critical at
a hospital in Hubli.
The incident occurred as Sameer and Shamsheer were
returning home when a group of miscreants halted their bike at the Naragund
State Bank and attacked the two with sharp weapons.
Mueen Magadi, a local human rights activist shared a
video of the incident on Twitter, which was caught on a CCTV camera, nearby.
Magadi also shared a video of the former secretary of
Nargund Taluk, Sanju Nalvade, where he can be heard giving genocide calls
against Muslims. It is to be noted that the speech was made in presence of the
police.
According to a report by Maktoob Media, a resident of
Gadag district said, “RSS men stabbed Sameer’s chest with a knife. They also
attacked Sahmseer with a deadly weapon,”.
The youths were allegedly attacked soon after a
meeting was organised by the Hindutva outfit Bajrang Dal in Naragund where
anti-muslim slogans were raised.
According to Magadi, a complaint has been filed with
the police, but no action or arrests have been made so far.
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Terror suspect arrested in Poonch
Sanjay Khajuria
Jan 19, 2022
JAMMU: A joint team of security forces on Monday night
arrested a terror suspect from a remote village in Poonch district for his
alleged links with terrorist organisations and proving terrorists with
information about security establishments, besides circulating seditious
material.
“On specific inputs, the joint team launched a search
operation in Baila village in Poonch’s Mandi tehsil and arrested Anjum Mehmood,
a resident of the same village,” said a police spokesperson.
“As per information from intelligence agencies,
Mehmood was connected with terrorists through social media and was instrumental
in providing them with information regarding security establishments. He was
trying to engage and motivate innocent youth in his area into picking up arms,
and is also accused of sharing seditious material,” the spokesperson added.
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South
Asia
Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Asks Taliban
Commanders Not To Seek Revenge On Previous Officers
19 Jan 2022
Acting Minister of Interior Affairs of the Islamic
Emirate of Afghanistan Sarajudin Haqqani directed Taliban commanders in Kabul not
to seek revenge on security officials of the previous Afghan government and
obey the general amnesty announced by supreme leader Mullah Hebtullah
Akhundzada.
Speaking at a capacity-building conference of
commanders of Police Districts of Kabul Haqqani said that, anyone who seeks
revenge spoils the current system which is not acceptable.
He added that he had met with leaders and officials of
the previous government and was given assurance that no one will harm them
until and unless they commit a crime.
“I direct you to investigate cases of prisoners,
release them if they were imprisoned for no crime and felony. Incarcerate those
who have put innocent people at jails.” Said Haqqani.
Sarajudin Haqqani- black listed by the US- told the
head of the PDs to serve people as they are only hired to do so.
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IEA to convene Economic Conference in Kabul
19 Jan 2022
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has announced that they
will convene a one-day conference called “Economy of Afghanistan” in the Afghan
capital Kabul on Wednesday, January 19, 2022.
This is the first time the IEA is arranging an
economic conference after they recaptured power on August 15 last year.
The conference is supposed to be headed by the acting
Prime Minister of the IEA Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund and will be broadcast
live on the state-run RTA channel.
A statement of the IEA reads that the conference will
be opened by second Deputy PM Abdul Salaam Hanafi and will be concluded by a
speech of first Deputy PM Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
The acting PM is not supposed to speak.
It is not clear who else will attend the conference
and whether foreign people will be invited or not, but previously it was said
that foreigners will also take part in the conference.
Source: Khaama Press
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Two killed in Taliban’s gunfire in western Herat
province
18 Jan 2022
Local residents in the western Herat province said
that the Taliban affiliates opened fire at a car in their checkpoint in Kazemi
area of the city that resulted in the killing of the driver.
Eyewitnesses also said that a local doctor named
Jalali was also shot on the scene and was killed.
The incident happened on Monday night, January, 17.
Local officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
in Herat province have not commented on the incident yet.
Shooting at people is not something new since the
Taliban’s takeover on August 15 last year, the affiliates have shot civilians
in Kabul and Laghman province as well.
Source: Khaama Press
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IEA asks Norway to take lead in recognition
18 Jan 2022
Deputy of the Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan in economic affairs Maulaee Kabir meets with the Norwegian
ambassador to Kabul Andreas Linedman and expressed hope that Norway would take
lead in recognizing the interim government in Afghanistan.
The meeting took place on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
A spokesperson of the IEA Inamullah Samangani in a
Twitter post cited Mulaee Kabir as he said that they have completed the
criteria for recognition.
As per Inamulllah Samangani, “IEA has completed all
the criteria for recognition and we hope that Norway will take the lead in
recognizing them and will also do its part in releasing Afghanistan’s assets.”
Said the Deputy PM.
The Norwegian ambassador said though the country does
not have an active embassy in Afghanistan, it is engaged in all incidents
currently happening in Afghanistan.
Source: Khaama Press
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Earthquake in western Afghanistan kills 28, destroyed
800 homes
18 Jan 2022
Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and
spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid said that two
earthquakes in the western Badghis province on Monday, January 17 killed 28
people, wounded four, and destroyed 800 homes.
A statement of condolence released by Zabiullah
Mujahid reads that the earthquakes have rocked the entire province but Qadis
district has suffered the most loss and inflicted more casualties.
The statement has called on aid agencies to cooperate
with the local officials to assist the people affected by the natural disaster.
Source: Khaama Press
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Mideast
Iran's Quds Force Commander Visits Iraq 'To Unify Shia
Parties': Sources
18 January, 2022
Iran's Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani is in Iraq to
smooth out tensions between Shia political groups and speed up the formation of
a government after months of post-election squabbling, sources have told The
New Arab's Arabic-language sister site.
Qaani's visit - the third since Iraq held
parliamentary elections on 10 October - follows months of fruitless talks
between pro-Iran parties, who fared badly in the election, and the Sadrist
movement, the vote's biggest winner.
The Iranian general arrived in Iraq on Sunday, and has
held talks with Shia political groups in Najaf and Baghdad.
In Najaf, home to some Shia Islam's holiest sites, he
met with figures from the Sadrist movement, which is led by Iraqi cleric
Muqtada Al-Sadr.
Qaani aimed to "push Sadr towards an alliance
with the Coordination Framework" and "form a government that would
bring the two parties together", political sources with knowledge of the
talks told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The Coalition Framework includes Iraq's biggest
Shia political groups, including the pro-Iran Fatah coalition.
Sadr has so far said he wants to form a "national
majority government" that includes Sadrists, Kurds and Sunnis. Members of
the Coordination Framework say this will exclude them from power.
It is not clear how long Qaani will remain in Iraq
for, a senior member of the Fatah coalition told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
The Iranian commander will also meet with Sunni and
Kurdish political groups, another Coordination Framework member told the news
outlet.
During the talks, Qaani passed on messages from Iran's
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, warning of
"the danger of the current division", and talking about
"a Western conspiracy targeting political achievements" achieved in
Iraq, senior political sources in Baghdad and Najaf told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Source: The New Arab
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Iran Holds Trial of Ringleader of Separatist Terrorist
Group
2022-January-18
Habib Farajollah Chaab, also known as Habib Asyud, the
ringleader of the SMLA terrorist group, appeared in court at branch 26 of
Tehran’s Islamic Revolution Court for the first time since his arrest.
Based on an indictment, he is charged with “leading
and heading the SMLA terrorist group as well as planning and carrying out
numerous bombing and terrorist operations in Khuzestan Province and destroying
public property in order to counter the Islamic Republic of Iran’s
establishment”.
He is also charged with bombing operations at the
Housing and Urban Development Office, Planning and Budget Organization, and
Department of Environment in Ahvaz.
Chaab’s other charges include bombing operations
targeting the governorates of Dezful and Abadan and oil pipelines in the cities
of Abadan, Ahvaz, and Mahshahr, and also planning a bombing attack against
Ahvaz’s Judiciary office.
In September 2018, the SMLA claimed responsibility for
an attack on a military parade in Ahvaz that killed 25 people, including
members of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and civilian
bystanders, and injured 70 others.
During Tuesday’s hearing, the prosecutor's
representative said the SMLA's operations are designed with the Saudi backing
in Sweden and Denmark, where the group's ringleaders are residing.
European and Arab countries have failed to extradite
the terrorists to the Islamic Republic despite a red notice issued against
them, he noted.
Source: Fars News Agency
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FM: Iran Pursuing “Asia First” Policy
2022-January-18
Iran is pursuing the "Asia First" and the
"neighborhood first" policy, Amir Abdollahian said in an interview
with China Global Television Network (CGTN) on Monday.
He noted that Tehran and Beijing have explored ideas
under such a policy, such as "joint projects in some of Iran's neighbors
and joint initiatives to promote regional stability, security and sustainable
economic development".
Amir Abdollahian added that Iran would make efforts to
help those who cannot enjoy long-term security and stability and would
"work with countries with a common background on projects related to
economy, trade and culture in the form of tripartite or multi-party
cooperation".
The Islamic Republic expects to provide more
development opportunities for neighboring countries based on this policy, he
explained.
Pointing to the 50th anniversary of the establishment
of relations between Iran and China, Amir Abdollahian said there are no
challenges facing ties between the two countries.
"However, the bullying behavior of the US has
affected some of our cooperation," he said, stressing the need to find an
appropriate path within the international framework to meet the challenges
posed by Washington's unilateral acts.
"We believe that multilateralism will benefit all
countries. The unilateralism and bullying of the United States is not
appreciated by any country. International law and cooperation provide
opportunities for all countries to enjoy rights and benefits," the top
Iranian diplomat said.
He emphasized that both Iran and China would benefit
from the two sides’ comprehensive strategic partnership which covers
cooperation in a number of fields, including trade, agriculture, science and
technology, as well as in cultural fields like tourism.
"It also includes cooperation on regional and
international affairs. For instance, mutual support in international
organizations. I believe the plan serves the common interests of both
sides," he said.
Amir Abdollahian also once again reaffirmed that
Tehran has no intention to waste time or derail the sanctions removal talks in
the Austrian capital of Vienna, criticizing the West, particularly the US, for
failing to present any innovative proposals in the negotiations.
"We assured Chinese officials that Iran is not
playing with time or trying to derail the negotiations, and that we have made
constructive, positive and realistic proposals at the negotiating table in
Vienna," he said.
He hailed China's "constructive and
rational" role in the Vienna negotiations, saying Beijing "is always
opposed to the cruel unilateral sanctions imposed by the US on countries,
including Iran, and condemns the bullying practices of the US."
The Iranian foreign minister added that in talks with
his Chinese counterpart, he appreciated Beijing's support for Tehran's stance
during the Vienna talks and expressed hope that China would continue supporting
Iran's position.
He emphasized that China and Russia support Iran's
constructive initiatives "but Western countries, including the US, have so
far offered no innovative proposals in the talks."
"If the parties can resume their commitments
under the Iran nuclear deal, Iran will also return to commitments based on the
agreement. If Iran can get the expected economic benefits from the agreement,
so will all the parties," Amir Abdollahian pointed out.
Iran and the remaining parties to the JCPOA – Russia,
China, France, Britain, and Germany – have been holding talks in Vienna since
April last year. Iran says it pursues the removal of all sanctions that the
United States re-imposed on Iran following its withdrawal from the deal.
Under former US president Donald Trump, Washington
unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA and imposed draconian sanctions primarily
targeting the Iranian economy.
On Friday evening, the eighth round of the talks was
paused so that the diplomats could return to their respective capitals for
consultations. However, the working groups on sanctions removal and sequencing
the implementation of a probable agreement continued to work on draft texts on
Sunday.
Iran also argues that lack of initiative among the
Western parties to the Vienna deal is the main factor slowing down talks with
Iran.
Addressing a regular press conference on Monday,
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian voiced his country's strong
opposition to "illegal and unilateral" sanctions against Iran, and
"gross interference" in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic
and other countries in the region.
He said Beijing "firmly opposes illegal
unilateral sanctions against Iran, political manipulation on human rights and
other issues, and gross interference in the internal affairs of Iran and other
regional countries."
Iran and China signed the landmark agreement in March
last year in defiance of the US’s unilateral sanctions to strengthen
long-standing economic and political alliance.
The deal officially documents the Sino-Iranian
Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that had been announced during a visit by
Chinese President Xi Jinping to boost economic cooperation between the two
countries for the next 25 years, and paves the way for Iran’s participation in
the Belt and Road Initiative, a massive infrastructure project stretching from
East Asia to Europe.
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Official: Over 500 Iranian Thalassemic Patients Fall
Victim to US Sanctions
2022-January-18
“Currently, there are 23,000 thalassemic patients in
the country, most of whom need to use these drugs throughout their life,” Arab
said on Monday.
He added that since the beginning of the US-imposed
sanctions, the restrictive measures have created many challenges for Iranian
thalassemic patients and have had a direct impact on the treatment of such
patients, the main part of which is related to the provision of their
life-saving medicines.
Arab said that than 540 patients with thalassemia have
fallen victim to the sanctions since May 2018, when the US administration under
former President Donald Trump withdrew from a 2015 landmark deal with Iran,
officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and
re-imposed draconian sanctions against the country.
“Some European companies supplying raw materials for
the production of pharmaceuticals have directly sanctioned Iran and we are also
facing problems for the transfer of foreign currency. Therefore, we are dealing
with serious problems for production of (necessary) drugs," he said.
He stressed that a main reason for the failure to
provide necessary drugs for thalassemic patients is due to sanctions, and said,
"Since the beginning of the Persian solar calendar year, no medicine for
thalassemic patients has been imported and the production of medicine in the
main company producing drugs for thalassemia patients has stopped."
World leaders have time and again called on Washington
to exempt humanitarian and medicinal supplies from the list of its anti-Iran
sanctions but to no avail.
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Spokesman: Development of Exports, Trade Main Focus of
Iranian President’s Visit to Russia
2022-January-18
Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi
wrote on his twitter page that Iranian President Ebrahim Rayeesi and his
Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are to review developing exports to Russia
and reinforcing trade ties.
He added that President Rayeesi is due to address the
State Duma.
Bahadori Jahromi said that the Iranian president is
slated to hold talks with those who are active in economic and oil fields.
The Iranian president will also visit the Russian
university.
President Rayeesi will depart Tehran for Moscow on
Wednesday at the invitation of his Russian counterpart.
President Rayeesi’s visit to Moscow will take place in
line with widening cultural, political and economic interactions between the
two neighbors.
The Kremlin said in a statement on Tuesday that
President Putin and his Iranian counterpart will exchange views on a range of
issues, including joint economic and trade projects when the latter visits
Moscow on Wednesday.
The Kremlin Press Office said Putin and Rayeesi will
discuss the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
during the latter’s upcoming trip to Moscow.
They will also discuss all issues related to bilateral
cooperation, including the implementation of joint projects in economic and
trade fields, as well as important international and regional developments, it
added.
Additionally, Rayeesi is scheduled to hold a meeting
with Iranians living in Russia and Russian economic activists during his
two-day trip.
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Israel extends detention of ill Palestinian teenager
Amal Nakhleh
18 January ,2022
Israel has extended the detention of a Palestinian
teenager with a rare neuromuscular disorder who has been held without charge
for a year in what authorities refer to as administrative detention, his father
said Tuesday.
Amal Nakhleh, who was detained in January 2021 and
turned 18 this week, was one of just a handful of minors being held in
administrative detention.
He had a tumor removed from his lung in 2020 and suffers
from myasthenia gravis, a nerve disorder that causes severe muscle fatigue.
His father, Muamar, confirmed that his detention has
been extended until mid-May. He said Israel has yet to charge his son or
provide any justification for detaining him.
“We are very worried about his health,” he said.
He says his son requires regular hospital visits for
testing and needs a calm environment. At a recent court appearance, he said
Amal appeared unable to move the muscles in his face, a symptom of the disease.
The Israeli military has said the teenager was
detained for “being involved with weapons and terrorist activity” without
providing details, and that previous extensions of his detention were approved
by military courts. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment
Tuesday.
The use of administrative detention has galvanized
demonstrations across the occupied West Bank in recent months as several adult
prisoners have gone on hunger strike to protest being held for months or years
without charge. Some have secured their release after months of fasting that
left them hospitalized and at risk of permanent neurological damage.
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Relieving Iran sanctions would lead to ‘terror on
steroids’: Israel PM
18 January ,2022
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said funding
for Iran could lead to “terror on steroids” on Tuesday, in an apparent warning
against world powers easing sanctions against Tehran as they seek a new nuclear
deal.
“The last thing you want to do ... is pour tens of
billions of dollars into this apparatus. Because what will you get? Terror on
steroids,” Bennett said in a video address to the World Economic Forum in
Davos.
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Rebel commander killed in Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen
18.01.2022
A Houthi commander was killed in a Saudi-led coalition
airstrike in the capital Sanaa, the Yemeni rebel group said on Tuesday.
The Houthi-run Saba news agency said Brigadier General
Abdullah Qassem al-Junaid, the head of the Aviation Academy, and his family
were killed in an attack targeting his house late Monday.
There was no comment from the Saudi-led coalition on
the report.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said earlier
Tuesday that five family members were killed in Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa
Monday overnight, calling for halting escalation in Yemen.
On Monday, the Saudi-led coalition said it targeted
“terrorist leaders” north of Sanaa, without giving any further details.
In another statement on Tuesday, the coalition said it
struck rebels sites and drone communication systems and warehouses in the
Yemeni capital.
The attacks came hours after the Saudi air defense
intercepted eight rebel drones fired from Yemen towards Saudi Arabia.
On Monday, three people were killed in Houthi attack
on Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a member of the
Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting Houthi rebels since 2015.
Yemen has been engulfed by violence and instability
since 2014, when Iran-aligned Houthis captured much of the country, including
Sanaa.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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Hamas delegation in Algeria for talks on healing
Palestinian rift
Nour Abu Eisha
18.01.2022
GAZA CITY, Palestine
A Hamas delegation has arrived in Algeria for talks on
inter-Palestinian reconciliation, according to the Palestinian group.
Last month, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune
unveiled plans to host a meeting for Palestinian factions, in an effort to heal
the years-long rift between rival groups Hamas and Fatah.
In a statement on Tuesday, Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif
al-Qanoua said a delegation from the group held talks with Algerian officials
on ways to achieve national unity.
The delegation included group members Khalil Al-Hayya
and Hussam Badran, as well as Hamas representative in Algeria, Mohamed Othman.
Al-Qanoua expressed Hamas appreciation for
"Algeria's role in supporting the Palestinian cause, hosting the
Palestinian factions, and its keenness to achieve reconciliation.”
On Saturday, a delegation from President Mahmoud
Abbas’ Fatah movement arrived in Algeria for talks with Algerian officials.
A political and geographical division has prevailed in
the Palestinian territories since 2007 when Hamas seized control of the Gaza
Strip.
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Pakistan
Pakistan PM Imran Khan a ‘religion exploiter’:
Opposition PML-N
18 January, 2022
Lahore, Jan 18 (PTI) Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the
country’s main Opposition party on Tuesday dubbed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran
Khan a “religion exploiter” for using religious concepts and reforms only as a
cover-up for the massive governance and economic breakdown in the country.
Reacting to Khan’s article “Spirit Of
Riyaasat-e-Madina:Transforming Pakistan” in the local media on Monday, the
PML-N leaders chided the cricketer-turned-politician for using religion for
political gains and toxic populism.
“Really concerned with the way the prime minister is
using religion as a cover-up for the massive governance & economic
breakdown the country has suffered in decades due to his policies,” PML-N President
and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif said in a tweet.
“Such a self-serving approach will wreak greater
damage upon the polity than is being understood,” he lamented.
PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb said
that Imran Khan is a “religion exploiter as he is using religious concepts and
reforms only for political gains and toxic populism.” “Imran’s article is like
hiding in a mosque after committing major theft. Imran’s shameless strategy of
hiding behind religion and desecrating the name of Islam, Riyaasat-e-Madina
(the state of Madina at the time of Prophet Muhammad pbuh) and holy names are
aimed at hiding his looting, plundering, incompetence and incapacity,” she
said.
The former federal information minister said only a
“megalomaniacal, egotistical, stubborn, and arrogant person living in denial
could write such a self-righteous article.” “Imran’s mental state of denial and
desperation to save his sinking boat is exposed by this article after ruining
the country in three years in power,” the PML-N leader lambasted.
Imran and his government is the living manifestation
of everything the Riyaasat-e-Madina was not and advised against. It is rich
that a person who takes pride in his bigotry and hypocrisy has the audacity to
talk about Riyaasat-e-Madina. The ruler remained asleep 20 kilometers away from
Murree where dozens died, and has still not visited the victims’ families,
should keep his mouth shut about Riyaasat-e-Madina, Aurangzeb said.
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Pak sent ISI official to Turkey to meet Afghan
leaders, offer talks with Taliban
Jan 19, 2022
A senior Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official
recently travelled to Turkey to convey to Afghan political leaders an offer
from Pakistan to host them for talks with the Taliban, people familiar with the
matter said.
The ISI official, who was in Turkey during December,
was in contact directly with several Afghan leaders, including former
ministers, or with their aides to convey the offer from Islamabad.
Significantly, most of the leaders contacted by the intelligence operative are
perceived to be anti-Taliban or friendly towards India.
Among the leaders the ISI official reached out to were
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, former foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rashid
Dostum, the people cited above said. It was not immediately clear how the
Afghan leaders, who view the Pakistani leadership with deep suspicion,
responded to the overture from Islamabad.
Sayyaf, believed to be in his mid-70s, moved to New
Delhi following the fall of the Ashraf Ghani government and the takeover of
Kabul by the Taliban in mid-August 2021. He left India for Turkey only last
month as he believed more could be done to forge an anti-Taliban movement by
networking with other Afghan leaders already in that country.
Dostum is perceived as a key player in efforts to put
together a government-in-exile or to create a resistance force in Afghanistan.
The fresh move by Pakistan appears to be aimed at
completely shutting out India as a player in Afghanistan, the people cited
above said. After an interregnum of several months following the Taliban
takeover, the Indian side recently resumed contacts with elements from the
former government of Ashraf Ghani and other political leaders who fled
Afghanistan, the people added.
Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has
been criticised by Afghan politicians for acting like “Afghanistan’s foreign
minister” by advocating on behalf of the Taliban setup, which is yet to be
formally recognised by any country.
The move by Pakistan also came ahead of a visit this
month by Taliban acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to Iran, where he
met Ahmad Massoud, who heads the National Resistance Front (NRF), and former
minister Ismail Khan and urged them to end their resistance and return to
Afghanistan. Muttaqi has said he assured the Afghan leaders that they could
“come back to live freely and safely in Afghanistan”.
“Clearly, the Taliban want to shut down any form of
resistance and their backers in Pakistan are seeking to bolster these efforts,”
one of the people cited above said.
Sameer Patil, senior fellow at the Observer Research
Foundation, said the effort by the ISI shows “who is the real driver in shaping
political developments in Afghanistan post-August 2021”.
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Protest against abduction of Christian girls in
Pakistan
Ayyaz Gulzar
January 19, 2022
Human rights groups in Pakistan have held a protest
expressing serious concern over rising incidents of abductions of teenage girls
across the country.
The Jan. 17 protest at Karachi Press Club was
triggered by the reported abduction of four Christian teenage girls in
different cities of Pakistan in the first two weeks of this year.
“There is gender-based violence and child abuse in the
country. We see an increase in it as there is a lack of action on the part of
government institutions,” said Ilyas Samuel, a spokesperson for Voice for
Justice.
Mahnoor Ashraf, a 14-year-old Christian girl, was
abducted by a 45-year-old neighbor in Lahore on Jan. 4. According to reports,
she went missing shortly after she walked to a nearby shop with her eight-year-old
nephew, who returned to alert the family. They were informed on Jan. 7 that
Mahnoor had converted to Islam and married her abductor, Muhammad Ali Khan
Ghauri.
Sixteen-year-old Kiran, another Christian girl from
Okara in Punjab province, was abducted from her college on Jan. 7. The
kidnapper, Muhammad Arif, allegedly raped her in his car before abandoning her
in an unconscious state in front of her house.
Cousins Zarish, 17, and Angel, 15, were reported
missing after they went shopping in Kot Radha Kishan, also in Punjab province,
on Jan. 4.
Samuel appealed to the federal and provincial
governments to make all possible efforts to ensure strict punishment for the
kidnappers, who exploit and force the minor girls belonging to religious
minorities to convert to Islam and marry against their wishes.
Voice for Justice chairman Joseph Jannsen said the
lack of convictions of kidnappers and rapists raises questions over the
competence of law enforcement agencies in Pakistan.
Carol Noreen, a Catholic women’s rights activist,
emphasized the need for adequate medical and psycho-social support for the
victims “to help them recover and lead a dignified life.”
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Terror has come to the capital, interior minister
fears
Munawer Azeem
January 19, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Terming Monday night’s attack on a police
party an act of terrorism, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed warned that
this was a signal that terrorism had come to Islamabad.
Speaking to reporters after attending the funeral of
martyred Head Constable Munawar Hassan at Police Lines on Tuesday, the minister
said this was the first such incident of the New Year and said that all law
enforcement agencies needed to raise their guard.
“This is not a matter of petty theft or dacoity, this
purely is an act of terrorism,” he said.
Also on Tuesday, the media arm of the banned
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack. A media
release from Umar Media quoting TTP Spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani identified
the two attackers as Zarrar and Umar.
TTP claims responsibility for Monday night attack on
police party; Sheikh Rashid says terrorists’ sleeper cell identified
The minister also said that police had tracked down
the terrorists’ sleeper cell in Rawalpindi’s Misriyal area through the
registration of their motorcycle.
On Tuesday, as the martyred policeman was laid to rest
in the H-11 graveyard with full honours, police registered a case against the
two slain suspects, which includes charges of terrorism as well as murder and
attempted murder.
Police officers told Dawn that one of the injured
policemen is in critical condition and has been placed on a ventilator. Of the
two others, one had only sustained minor injuries while the condition of the
other is said to be improving.
Police say investigators have tangible clues and an
in-depth investigation is ongoing.
Officials told Dawn the men had acquitted themselves
honourably during the ambush. They said the men at the halting point were in an
open space and it was hard for them to find cover or retaliate in that
situation.
They said in such cases, human instinct is to try to
save oneself, but the men acted bravely and took down the terrorists.
Providing further details about the assailants,
sources in the police department said that the two men carried a Kalashnikov
and 9MM pistols, weapons rarely used by robbers and dacoits.
They also said that while petty criminals attack only
when stopped for checking, these assailants stopped some distance from the
police party and opened fire on them without any warning.
Although nothing was recovered from them that could
have aided in their identification, the officers said the attackers were
carrying weapons, ammunition and miswaks.
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Security forces neutralise two terrorists in North
Waziristan
January 18, 2022
RAWALPINDI: Security Forces have neutralised two
terrorists in an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) in Thal, North Waziristan
District.
According to the ISPR, the security forces conducted
an IBO on reported presence of terrorists in Thal, North Waziristan District.
“During intense exchange of fire, two terrorists –
Ghayoor and Bahauddin – got killed. Large quantity of weapons and ammunition
was also recovered from the killed terrorists,” the statement said.
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Pakistan Taliban claim overnight attacks on police
Jan 19, 2022
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban targeted police in
multiple attacks overnight in the capital, Islamabad, and the country's restive
northwest. Three policemen and three assailants were killed in the shootouts,
police and a militant spokesman said Tuesday. The first attack took place in
Islamabad late Monday, raising fears that insurgents have a presence in one of
the country's safest cities. An officer and two assailants were killed in that
attack. Later, two policemen were killed in attacks in the districts of Dir and
North Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan,
officials said.
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America
Texas synagogue hostage suspect's 'extreme' views
surfaced at jailhouse mosque after 2012 theft conviction
Jan. 18, 2022
The British suspect who died after allegedly taking
Jewish worshippers hostage at a Texas synagogue this weekend had a lengthy
criminal background and, during one prison stint, behaved in such an
"extreme" manner at a jail’s mosque it showed he was
"obsessed" with Islam, sources confirmed to Fox News.
Malik Faisal Akram, 44, had a criminal record, an
official at the U.K.'s Justice Department confirmed to Fox News. His last brush
with the law was in 2012 when he was convicted of theft and harassment.
During the time he was in prison for that conviction,
Akram, who had prior criminal offenses, reportedly conducted himself in an
"extreme" manner when attending the jail's mosque, and one observer
noted he was "obsessed" with Islam, according to the British
official.
Gulbar Akram told the New York Times his brother was
arrested at age 19 for wielding a baseball bat during a fight with his cousins
and spent a six-month stint at a young offenders’ institute. Gulbar Akram said
their parents had emigrated to the U.K. from Pakistan in the 1960s and raised
six sons in Blackburn, England.
Also confirmed to Fox News by the British official, a
rare judicial ban was issued against Akram in September 2001 following the 9/11
terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Akram ranted in a U.K. courtroom and to justice
officials about the attack in New York City, at one point telling one of the
attendants he "wished he was on the plane" that crashed into the
World Trade Center, the official said.
Multiple news reports indicate Akram was investigated
for possible terror activity by the British intelligence agency MI-5 in the
second half of 2020, but that investigation was later dropped.
Between three or four weeks ago, it’s reported
detectives were also seen at Akram's house inquiring about his
whereabouts. It was around then that he
left for the U.S., according to those reports.
It has been reported that Akram has been seen at
anti-Guantanamo and pro-Palestinian protests in the U.K., that he has been
active in various U.K. Muslim centers, and a member of an organization which
U.S. intelligence follows that’s said to act as a "gateway" for
terrorists.
Though a spokesperson for MI-5 would not confirm those
details to Fox News, he did indicate British intelligence are working closely
with US officials on the investigation.
U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel spoke by phone with
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandros Mayorkas on Monday, and FBI agents are
now said to be on the ground in the U.K.
Saturday’s hours-long standoff at Congregation Beth
Israel in Colleyville, Texas – about 15 miles northeast of Fort Worth – ended
with the suspect dead and all hostages safe.
Akram could be heard on a Facebook livestream video
demanding the release of an imprisoned Pakistani neuroscientist known in
counterterrorism circles as "Lady Al-Qaeda."
Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year prison
sentence after being convicted in 2010 of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in
Afghanistan, is being held at a federal prison in Fort Worth.
The FBI has extended investigations as far as London
and Tel Aviv, and two teenagers were detained in Manchester, England, on Sunday
in connection to the investigation into the Texas hostage incident.
Malik Faisal Akram’s brother, Gulbar Akram, released a
statement through the Blackburn Muslim Community detailing how he was called
into a police station in Greenbank, where he worked in an incident room with
terrorism police liaising with the FBI and negotiators during the hostage
incident.
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As a Muslim Hebrew teacher, the Texas synagogue
hostage attack made me anxious and sad
Zain Hussain
Jan. 18, 2022
The Jewish community in Texas is still reeling from
the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue hostage situation, which hit headlines
around the world over the weekend and early this week. The identity of the
perpetrator has been disclosed by the FBI. British citizen Malik Faisal Akram,
44, from Blackburn in the UK was shot dead after a standoff with police. Two
teenagers have been arrested in Manchester in connection with the attack.
While this particular incident has captured the
attention of the world, it’s not even an isolated incident. Just last October,
a right-wing extremist, Franklin Barrett Sechriest, set a fire in the
Congregation Beth Israel synagogue.
As a Hebrew teacher, I watched the incident unfold
with horror. I couldn’t help but feel that this incident could have happened at
my synagogue in London. As a Muslim, a part of me was also concerned about the
anti-Muslim rhetoric that might unfold: how people might generalise about
Muslim communities as a result and how Islamophobia might be bolstered by the
reports.
A rise in the far-right across Europe and the US means
that Jewish and Muslim communities are more under attack than ever before. In
the summer of 2017, Darren Osborne drove into Finsbury Park mosque in London,
killing one and injuring nine. In April 2019, John T. Earnest carried out a
shooting in Poway synagogue, San Diego. Just days before, he had set fire to a
mosque in Escondido. Then we had the October 2019 Pittsburgh synagogue
shooting. The Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand of March 2019 had
happened just a few months before.
Right-wing extremism is an overwhelming physical
threat to Jewish communities in Europe and the US. However, to discount Muslim
antisemitism would be disingenuous. While it is too early to say what the exact
motives were, it seems that the perpetrator made links between the structures
of power holding Aafia Siddiqui in custody and the Jewish community. The
dissemination of right-wing and white supremacist conspiracy theories about
Jews ruling the world, or governing the media, unfortunately plagues many
Muslim circles. Although only a small number of Muslim extremists will actually
carry out terrorist attacks, it remains true that jihadists and Islamist
extremists often use antisemitic conspiracy theories to justify their ideology
and actions.
My fear — as is the fear of many Muslims who watched
the news of the synagogue hostage situation with horror — is that this latest
attack will be used to justify false, Islamophobic narratives about all
Muslims. There is precedence for these concerns. In December 2021, Chairman of
the Jewish National Fund UK, Samuel Hayek, was interviewed in a Jerusalem Post
article headlined “Jews do not have a future in England”. The article stated
that “antisemitism has been constantly rising [in the UK] and is only expected
to grow,” adding, “One of the reasons is shifting demographics. The population
of individuals who are anti-Jewish and anti-Israel, most significantly Muslim
immigrants to the UK, is increasing and their influence on the government is
too.” It continued: “The Muslim population in England has been growing
consistently. An article published in the Telegraph in 2017 stated that the
Muslim population could triple in the two decades and is likely to number
around 13 million by 2050.” This piece, which drew a direct correlation between
rising levels of antisemitism and the presence of Muslims in the UK, was
disappointing to read. The fact that it encouraged Jewish people to leave the
country was also deeply saddening.
The Trump administration instituted a Muslim ban not
too long ago, and right-wing politicians have been calling for limits on Muslim
immigration in Europe for many years now. The anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism
that has plagued media and politics in the US, UK and elsewhere since 9/11 and
the beginning of the War on Terror is so normalised that a whole community of
people are often blamed for the violent actions of a few.
None of this means that antisemitism in Muslim circles
should not be called out. It means that the response to what happened cannot be
a demonisation of Muslim immigrants and communities. The heartwarming fact that
Rabbi Cytron-Walker is a proud supporter and practitioner of interfaith
dialogue, and has relations with a number of Muslim communal organisations,
shows that Islamophobes and antisemites alike have no leg to stand on. Working
together is possible — and is incredibly rewarding.
Dealing with antisemitism and Islamophobia has been
important for me as a Muslim Hebrew teacher. Having seen and heard conspiracy
theories about Jews among fellow Muslims growing up, I began to study Arabic
and Hebrew at university to help me better understand things for myself. My
year abroad in Jerusalem was incredibly eye-opening for me in a number of ways.
It also showed me the ways in which Muslims and Arabs are racialised in Israel
to justify an oppressive status quo of violence and occupation against
Palestinians. I saw how many diaspora Jews coming to Israel had often
internalised these ideas.
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US Treasury Department sanctions Hezbollah-linked
individuals, company
18 January ,2022
The US Treasury Department has sanctioned three
Lebanese men and one company for being linked to Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Three men and their Lebanon-based travel company were
designated for facilitating and laundering finances to Hezbollah.
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“This action comes at a time in which the Lebanese
economy faces an unprecedented crisis and Hezbollah, as part of Lebanon’s
government, is blocking economic reforms and inhibiting much needed change for
the Lebanese people,” a statement from the Treasury Department said.
For his part, Under Secretary of the Treasury for
Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson said Hezbollah was just like
other corrupt actors in Lebanon. “Hezbollah continues to profit from insulated
business ventures and backdoor political deals, amassing wealth that the
Lebanese people never see,” he said.
He added that Tuesday’s move was meant to disrupt
businessmen from raising and laundering funds for the group “while the Lebanese
people face worsening economic and humanitarian crises.”
“It is clear Hezbollah and its associates are more
concerned with advancing their own interests and those of their patron, Iran,
than the best interests of the Lebanese people,” Secretary of State Antony
Blinken said in a statement.
While the move was welcomed by current and former US
officials, a cut in staff has negatively impacted the fight against Hezbollah,
one former Treasury Department official said.
“Today’s action is important, but the Treasury’s
actions against Hezbollah have slowed to a crawl,” former Assistant Secretary
for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea told Al Arabiya English.
Citing “Spiderz,” the group of hackers that leaked
names and information of people it alleged had accounts with a US-sanctioned
financial arm of Hezbollah, Billingslea said the Treasury Department “knows and
can do more.”
But the cut in staff to “low, single digits” has
impaired these efforts, he said.
“The Under-Secretary needs to direct OIA and OFAC to
reprioritize this mission,” Billingslea said, referring to the Office of
Intelligence and Analysis and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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Dubai's Emirates suspends flights to several US
destinations on 5G concerns
19 January ,2022
Dubai's Emirates airline announced on Tuesday that it
will suspend flights to several destinations in the US as of Jan. 19 until
further notice because of concerns over 5G mobile deployment.
The move is “due to operational concerns associated
with the planned deployment of 5G mobile network services in the US”, the
company said. It said the destinations include Boston, Chicago, Dallas Fort
Worth, Houston, Miami, Newark, Orlando, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Emirates flights to New York's JFK, Los Angeles
International Airport and Washington DC's Dulles International Airport will
continue to operate as usual, the company added.
“We are working closely with aircraft manufacturers
and the relevant authorities to alleviate operational concerns, and we hope to
resume our US services as soon as possible,” the carrier said.
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Central Mosque of Brent launches Breathe Easy support
group
January 18, 2022
The Central Mosque of Brent is set to launch a
'breathe easy' group to support those with asthma and lung conditions.
Launching at 2pm this Friday (January 21), the group
aims to end the "isolation" felt by sufferers. It will then meet one
Friday per month.
Instigators have said the service is particularly
important as Brent has one of the highest rates of asthma hospitalisations in
London.
Dr Riaz, who is treasurer and trustee at the mosque
said: “This support group is vital, and we want to welcome everyone, whatever
their background or religion to the mosque.
“It is in a socially deprived area, with high levels
of smoking and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
"Around 60 per cent of the population, especially
in the south of the borough is BAME, and these communities can be reluctant to
seek out health advice."
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French anti-Islam candidate convicted over racist
remarks
18/01/2022
PARIS–
A French court on Monday found far-right presidential
hopeful Eric Zemmour guilty of racist hate speech for a tirade against
unaccompanied child migrants.
Zemmour drew widespread outrage in September 2020 when
he told the CNews channel that child migrants were “thieves, killers, they’re
rapists. That’s all they are. We should send them back”.
Zemmour, a media pundit who is struggling to assemble
the endorsements from elected officials he needs to compete in April’s presidential
vote, did not show up in court to hear the verdict, having already skipped his
trial in November.
The court fined him €10,000 ($11,400) in daily
instalments of €100 over 100 days. He could be jailed if he fails to pay the
sum.
Zemmour’s lawyer, Olivier Pardo, said he would appeal
the verdict.
The case was “nothing other than another attempt to
intimidate me”, Zemmour said last year, adding that “they won’t shut me up”.
The journalist and author has two previous convictions
for hate speech and has been investigated 16 times in total over incendiary
remarks on immigration and Islam.
In 2011, he was fined €10,000 for claiming on TV that
“most drug dealers are black and Arab”. In 2018, he was ordered to pay €3,000
for comments about a Muslim “invasion” of France.
His dramatic entrance into front-line politics after a
career spent in the media sent waves through the French ruling class in
September, making him briefly the most talked-about challenger to President
Emmanuel Macron.
Like all candidates in the race, Zemmour needs to
muster 500 endorsements from elected figures around the country by the middle
of March in order to have his name on the ballot for the two rounds of voting
in April.
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Turkey’s Erdogan warns Russia against invading Ukraine
18 January ,2022
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday
warned Russia against invading Ukraine, calling the former Soviet republic a
“powerful” country with international friends.
Turkey's supply of combat drones to Ukraine has drawn
the wrath of Russia, which fears they could be used by Kyiv in its years-long
conflict in two regions of the Moscow-backed separatist east.
Speaking to Turkish reporters in Albania, Erdogan said
he intended to discuss the rising tensions with Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
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“You cannot handle these things by saying 'I will
invade something, I will take it',” Turkish media quoted Erdogan as saying.
“I don't see Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a
realistic option because it is not an ordinary country. Ukraine is a powerful
country,” said Erdogan, who backs Ukraine's NATO aspirations.
In December, Putin criticised Ukraine for deploying
Turkish attack drones, urging Ankara to put pressure on Kyiv not to use the
military hardware, which has played a key role in conflicts in Libya and over
Azerbaijan's separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Turkey has countered by saying it cannot be held
responsible for how the drones are used by countries after they are sold.
Erdogan said he has always opposed Russia's approach
to Ukraine, criticising its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
He added that Russia “should review the state of
affairs in the world and its own state of affairs before deciding to take this
step” to invade.
“We need to rip war out of political history,” Erdogan
said.
The West accuses Russia of deploying tanks, artillery
and about 100,000 soldiers across Ukraine's northern and eastern borders in
preparation for a possible invasion.
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Swiss prosecutor's office launches case over banner
targeting Turkish president
Bayram Altug
19.01.2022
BERN, Switzerland
Swiss prosecutors launched a case Tuesday against four
people over a banner targeting Turkiye’s president at a rally held in 2017.
Ahead of a constitutional referendum in Turkiye, a
protest rally against the Turkish government was held in the Swiss capital
Bern, during which some demonstrators carried a banner featuring an image of
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the words “Kill Erdogan with his own
weapons” and a gun being pointed at his head. The Swiss police did not
intervene.
The rally was organized in Parliament Square in front
of the federal parliament building by extreme left groups in the country and by
sympathizers of the PKK and YPG terrorist organizations and far-left terror
group DHKP-C.
Prosecutors at the time opened a probe for “alleged
public provocation of crimes or violence,” and an investigation was also opened
in Turkiye.
The prosecutor's office did not share the indictment
it prepared against the four suspects with the press on the grounds of
protecting their privacy.
In the case, in which the Swiss press showed interest,
members of the press were made to sign a document at the entrance of the court
stating they would not publish any information about the suspects.
Swiss police also adopted extensive security measures
inside and outside the court. A small group that came to support the suspects
demonstrated in front of the court building.
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Killing or injuring of protestors by Sudan security
forces 'serious concern' for UN
Peter Kenny
18.01.2022
GENEVA
The situation in Sudan is of “serious concern,” with
fatalities of peaceful protestors at the hands of security forces almost daily
as statistics show 71 deaths and more than 2,200 injured since the October
coup, the UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday.
Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights, told a press conference in Geneva that in addition to the
casualties in Sudan, there has been a clampdown on critics of the authorities
and independent journalists.
“Credible statistics from the Central Committee of
Sudan Doctors show that 71 people have been killed and more than 2,200 injured
by state security forces during protests since the 25 October 2021 coup
d'etat,” she said.
Since the beginning of this year, she said, 17 people
have been killed.
“Yesterday alone, security forces brutally dispersed
demonstrators in (the capital) Khartoum, resulting in the killing of seven and
injury of dozens of protesters by live ammunition,” said Shamdasani.
Hit by canisters
She said more than 25% of those injured appeared to
have been hit directly by tear gas canisters.
There are concerns that security forces are firing
tear gas canisters horizontally, directed at individuals, violating
international standards and called for independent investigations.
“We repeat our call on the Sudanese authorities to
immediately cease the unnecessary and disproportionate use of force – including
the use of live ammunition – against peaceful protesters,” said Shamdasani.
Using live ammunition is only permissible as a last
resort in case of an imminent threat to life or of serious injury, she
explained.
“A campaign of arbitrary arrest and detention against
protesters, journalists, and media workers continues amid the state of
emergency, with security forces breaking into activists' homes,” said
Shamdasani.
She said security forces have been entering hospitals
to arrest wounded protesters, preventing them from accessing emergency care.
“There are also disturbing reports of assaults against
healthcare workers and facilities,” said the UN official.
Shamdasni detailed the clampdown seen through
increasing arrests of journalists, home and office raids and searches,
ill-treatment of journalists, and suspension of licenses.
At least eight journalists have been mistreated by
security forces while covering protests, she said.
On Jan. 15, the broadcasting license of Aljazeera Live
– the Arabic-language channel that is part of the Aljazeera Media Network – was
revoked.
On Jan. 13, Sudanese armed forces reportedly entered
the office of Al Araby Television in Khartoum, arresting four of its staff
while covering a protest from the rooftop of the building.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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Asia
Govt leaving shariah judge sexual harassment case to
cops
January 18, 2022
PETALING JAYA: The case of a top shariah court judge
who had allegedly sexually harassed a woman will be left to the police to
probe, says religious affairs minister Idris Ahmad.
In a statement, he pledged that the religious affairs
unit under the Prime Minister’s Department will not be interfering in the
ongoing investigations.
“As stated, the matter is being investigated by the
police. The Prime Minister’s Department will leave the issue to the police to
investigate.”
He also urged individuals to refrain from making any
statements that may be seen to interfere or disrupt police investigations.
Idris said this after the Malaysian Muslim Lawyers
Association urged the government to intervene in the issue. They said there was
a risk that the good image of the shariah judiciary could be tainted with a
squabble among shariah officers over the case.
Some had called for calm to allow the probe to be
conducted, but other statements called for the judge to be benched while
investigations were carried out.
Police are probing a complaint by a woman who claimed
the top shariah judge had sexually harassed her, after she stumbled upon him
lying naked on her bed in August 2020.
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Malaysia's Muslim Council of Elders condemns Houthi
terrorist attack on civil facilities in UAE
19-01-2022
KUALA LUMPUR, 19th January, 2022 (WAM) -- The Muslim
Council of Elders in Malaysia, headed by Dr. Zulkifl Muhammad Al Bakri, has
expressed its condemnation of the terrorist attack by the Houthi militia on
civil facilities in the UAE.
Dr. Al Bakri, a member of the Muslim Council of Elders
and head of the Council’s branch in Malaysia, pointed out that such terrorist
acts contravene all international norms and laws, highlighting the Council's
full solidarity and support for the UAE leadership and people.
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Joko Widodo lauds Indonesia's oldest Catholic
university
Ryan Dagur
January 18, 2022
President Joko Widodo has expressed his gratitude to
one of the oldest Catholic universities founded by European missionaries for
its contribution to the progress of Indonesia.
He was speaking on Jan. 17 at the 67th anniversary of
Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung, West Java, one of the oldest and
prestigious private universities managed by the leadership of the Catholic
Church since its foundation in 1955, a decade after Indonesia's independence.
The Indonesian president, who was present at the event
with Education Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim, said he was grateful for the role
played by the university “in the history of the nation in the form of thoughts,
human resources and real works for the progress of Indonesia.”
Widodo appealed to the university to continue to live
up to Pancasila, the five principles of Indonesia's national ideology based on
secularism, which he said was the strength of the Muslim-majority country.
“I hope that this university will contribute to the
transformation of Indonesia, contributing through superior human resources,
through innovation in science and technology," he said.
Widodo also inaugurated the new Arntz-Geise building
on the campus to commemorate the names of the two pioneering European
missionaries, Bishop Pierre Marin Arntz OSC of Bandung and Bishop Paternus
Nicholas Joannes Cornelius Geise OFM of Bogor.
Mangadar Situmorang, the rector of the university,
thanked Widodo for his visit while assuring the president that they were
committed to Indonesia's development and honoring Pancasila.
He said, historically, this was based on the
university’s proximity to Indonesia’s founding fathers, both the first
president Sukarno and the first vice president Muhammad Hatta, who had visited
the campus in its early years.
“In the history of this country, this university can
be proud because it inherited the noble values of Pancasila from the two
founding fathers. This sense of pride and gratitude is also a responsibility to
liven up Pancasila in academic studies and the practice of living with the
people,” he said.
Source: UCA News
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Africa
Imo govt opens up on alleged Miyetti Allah vigilante
operation
January 18, 2022
By Tunji Adedeji
The Imo State Government has denied reports that
Miyetti Allah vigilantes have arrived in the state to help security agencies
fight crime.
The Commissioner for Information, Hon Declan Emelumba,
who described the report as a fabricated story, said at no time did the state
government give any approval to the vigilante to operate in Imo as claimed by
the story.
Emelumba, said the aim of the story, which he said was
authored by desperate opposition, was to cause ethnic tension in the state.
The Information Commissioner said, “This is to alert
imo people that there is no truth in the story being circulated by the
opposition which has become more desperate. The Government is not aware of any
Miyetti Allah vigilante.”
He further said the government will not hesitate to
intimate them of any security arrangements it is making but certainly not
outside established security agencies.
While urging Imo people to disregard the story,
Emelumba warned purveyors of the fake news to be mindful of the consequences of
their ill-advised action and desist forthwith.
Recall that some media reports had alleged that the
Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) said its members
have teamed up with security agents to tackle unidentified gunmen and suspected
criminals in Imo State.
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Pray, carry emergency bag, advises Kenyan priest
caught in terror attack
January 19, 2022
Consolata Father Nicholas Makau, who was thrust into
the center of the January 2019 al-Shabab attack on an upscale office complex in
Nairobi in Kenya, said time has given him a chance to process events, and he
shared some thoughts on how priests in similar situations can respond.
Father Makau advised priests who find themselves
approaching a crisis situation to pray, invoking God in silence and making
themselves part and parcel of the situation. He also advised them to exercise
extreme sensitivity, so they do not increase the people's grief.
"We are priests and human. So, when consoling the
people or grieving with them, one can grieve to the point of losing control.
Sensitivity helps understand that we are human and we can grieve," he
said.
However, he urged priests to try to keep an emotional
distance so that they can offer true consolation to strengthen the people.
"In my case, these were my Christians. I had
already known their families. So I had to take myself out of the situation so
that I empathized with them as an outsider. It is not an easy thing," he
said.
Father Makau also encouraged priests in similar
situations to carry a "humanitarian bag" in case they have to anoint
dying people or offer spiritual support. Material issues also come into play,
he said.
For instance, "some family members of the victims
could not afford to move from one hospital to another in search of their
relatives," said Father Makau.
The 2019 attack was just yards from the Consolata
Missionaries' regional house. As news of the attack spread, Father Makau said,
he tried to reach the people he knew in the complex. He also reached out to
priests at the Consolata Shrine to find out if they had heard from other
parishioners.
"One Christian called to ask me to accompany him
to the scene of the attack since he was too weak to go there alone. So I called
some nuns, some brothers and priests so that we can go there as a team,"
he said.
Once the priests and nuns arrived, armed with Bibles
and rosaries, word spread. Father Makau said devastated people searching for
family members asked for prayers, especially from the Catholic sisters.
"You know ... an event or activity where sisters
are seen draws a lot of attention. Now that the nuns were there and were seen,
the church was seen to be present," said Father Makau.
He said he saw his role and that of other religious
leaders as accompanying the people who were looking for answers, especially
following the terrorist attack. He spent days offering spiritual and social
support to affected families, who wondered if they had done something wrong.
"They would interact with us as religious, asking
questions," he said. "Is it the people who are not being obedient to
the Lord God? Is it someone who had done something wrong in the family? This is
my first born, how come has died and only got this job this year?"
He said people sought answers from religious leaders
of different denominations, but that they provided answers through prayer and
Bible reading.
"It worked well because could see people going
through with some faith. I can recall some parents saying, 'Well, it's God's
way, and when God's way has come, we want to cooperate. We cannot do
anything,'" he said. Some, however, wondered if this was the best God
could give the people.
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Sudanese barricade streets, close shops after seven
people killed
18 January ,2022
Sudanese shuttered shops and barricaded Khartoum
streets on Tuesday in a civil disobedience campaign to protest one of the
bloodiest days since an October coup derailed the country’s democratic
transition.
Security forces on Monday killed at least seven people
during anti-coup protests by thousands, bringing the total fatalities from the
crackdown on anti-coup demonstrations to 71, according to medics.
Sudan’s main civilian bloc, the Forces for Freedom and
Change, called for two days of civil disobedience to begin on Tuesday.
“Shop closed for mourning,” said a series of small
signs posted on the closed outlets at the sprawling Sajane construction
supplies market in Khartoum.
One of the merchants, Othman el-Sherif, was among
those shot dead on Monday.
In several other parts of Khartoum, too, many
pharmacies and other shops were shuttered, according to an AFP correspondent.
Sudan’s University for Science and Technology
suspended all activities as part of the civil disobedience, according to an
official statement.
As they do regularly, police on Tuesday fired tear gas
at dozens of protesters setting up roadblocks, this time on the streets of east
Khartoum, according to an AFP correspondent.
After Monday’s deaths the United Nations special
representative Volker Perthes condemned the use of live ammunition and the US
embassy criticized “violent tactics of Sudanese security forces,” the latest
such appeals by world powers, which have not curbed a rising death toll.
Washington’s Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee
and special envoy for the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, were expected in
Khartoum where they would “reiterate our call for security forces to end
violence and respect freedom of expression and peaceful assembly,” spokesman
Ned Price said.
On Monday, Sudan’s police said they used “the least
force” to counter the protests, in which about 50 police personnel were wounded
in confrontations.
Authorities have repeatedly denied using live
ammunition against demonstrators, and insist scores of security personnel have
been wounded during protests which have occurred regularly since the October 25
coup.
Source: Al Arabiya
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Suicide bomb blast in Somali capital kills at least 4
Mohammed Dhaysane
18.01.2022
MOGADISHU, Somalia
At least four people, including civilians, were
killed, while 10 others were wounded in a suicide bombing in the Somali capital
Mogadishu on Tuesday evening, officials said.
It was an attack by a suicide bomber that blew himself
up in a restaurant located steps away from the Somali military camp in
Mogadishu's Wadajir neighborhood, a police officer in Mogadishu told Anadolu
Agency over the phone.
"Four people have been killed and at least 10
others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a restaurant located
at the opposite of the Nacnac camp in Mogadishu's Wadajir district," the
Somali National News Agency also reported.
The wounded civilians were rushed to hospitals in the
capital for treatment, according to police.
Mohamed Abdi Ibrahim, a 35-year-old eyewitness who
spoke Anadolu Agency after the blast, said he saw several wounded civilians
crying for help, while the scene was very chaotic.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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Libyan speaker’s call for new constitution panel draws
fire
Mohamed Eritma
18.01.2022
TRIPOLI, Libya
Libya’s constitution-drafting assembly warned Tuesday
that the formation of a new panel will worsen the country’s crisis.
Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh called on
Monday for forming a new assembly of 30 experts representing Libya’s three
regions to draft a “consensual” constitution within a one-month period.
“The assembly rejects Saleh’s proposal because it
contradicts the constitutional declaration,” the assembly’s chief, al-Jilani
Arhoma, told Anadolu Agency.
He warned that the proposal “will drag the country
into further escalation”.
"The final say is for the Libyan people through a
referendum only,” Arhoma stressed.
Assembly member Nadia Omran, for her part, considered
Saleh’s proposal as an attempt to “waste more time”.
“It is an attempt to waste time in order to remain in
power and prevent the drafting of a constitution and holding elections,” Omran
told Anadolu Agency.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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15 al-Shabaab terrorists killed in Kenya
Andrew Wasike
18.01.2022
NAIROBI, Kenya
Fifteen al-Shabaab militants hiding in a camp in Boni
forest in Kenya’s southeastern Garissa County were killed on Monday, police
said.
In a statement on Tuesday, police said 15 terrorists
were killed after being cornered by a multi-agency team tasked with conducting
operations in the troubled Boni forest.
Two command and logistic bases of militants in Bodhei
area in Lamu County were also destroyed in an operation, the statement said,
adding rifles, explosives, bullets, military uniforms and communication
equipment were also recovered.
Al-Shabaab has killed 13 people in night raids on
villages and an attack on police this month.
“The group is suspected to be behind the recent series
of attacks in Lamu,” the statement added.
According to the Kenyan military, al-Shabaab militants
have set up camps and used the Boni forest to infiltrate Kenya due to its close
proximity to the porous Kenya-Somalia border.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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Tunisian president extends state of emergency for 1
month
Adel Thabeti
18.01.2022
TUNIS, Tunisia
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday extended the
country's state of emergency for another month.
The extension will last until Feb. 18, according to
the Tunisian official gazette.
Saied had extended the state of emergency before on
July 24 for six months, ending on Wednesday.
Tunisia had first announced the state of emergency in
2015 following a terrorist attack. Since then, it has been extended by
authorities.
Under these measures, the Interior Ministry is granted
emergency powers to stop meetings and gatherings, impose curfews, and clamp
down on media organizations.
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Sudan orders investigation into protester deaths
Mohammed Amin
18.01.2022
KHARTOUM, Sudan
The head of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council on
Tuesday ordered an investigation into the killing of seven protesters during
anti-military protests a day earlier.
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan issued a decree to form an
investigation committee into Monday’s killings and to submit its findings
within 72 hours, the council said in a statement.
Seven demonstrators were killed and more than 100
others injured by army fire during protests demanding full civilian rule on
Monday, according to local medics.
The new fatalities brought the death toll since
October to 71.
Earlier Tuesday, three associations representing
Sudanese doctors suspended working at hospitals run by the military as part of
pressure for full civilian rule.
Sudan has been in turmoil since Oct. 25, 2021 when the
military dismissed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's transitional government and
declared a state of emergency.
Prior to the military takeover, Sudan was governed by
a sovereign council of military and civilian officials tasked with overseeing
the transition period until elections in 2023.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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