(2025-02-03). Freed Palestinians bear signs of torture, starvation by Israel. newarab.com 
Dozens of As part of the agreement between Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails on Saturday. | Dressed in stained grey prison uniforms, many appeared frail and exhausted as they arriv…
(2025-02-03). Israel defence chief threatens freed Palestinian detainee. newarab.com 
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz took to social media on Thursday to threaten a former Palestinian detainee with reincarceration after the man was released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. | Katz's post on X targeted "One mistake and you're going to meet old friends," Katz
(2025-02-03). Israel kills former Palestinian detainee in West Bank. newarab.com 
A former The Gaza Health Ministry revealed two Palestinians were killed south of Jenin, including Abdul Hadi Issam Alawneh. | Alawneh was released under the November 2023
(2025-02-03). Iran detains political activist who criticised the ruling system. newarab.com 
(2025-02-03). Ethiopia: Defend and strengthen the human rights movement against erosion! fidh.org Human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Agasint Torture (OMCT), under the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, express deep concern over the escalating political tensions and ongoing conflicts in Ethiopia.
23 January 2025. The undersigned African civil society organisations (CSOs) and various international non-governmental organisations urgently express our deep concern (…) | – |
(2025-02-03). Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collective. fidh.org 11 organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a civil society group actively opposing the death penalty and advocating for human rights in the country. Read the statement (…) | – |
(2025-02-03). Urgent call to confirm the suspension of Azerbaijan's PACE credentials at winter session 2025. fidh.org In a joint letter, human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, call the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to uphold the suspension of Azerbaijan's credentials for 2025, as escalating repression of civil society in the country violates the principles of the Council of Europe (…) | – |
(2025-02-03). Panama: Self-Determination And National Popular Unity. popularresistance.org The peoples have the right to decide their own collective destiny as established by the Bandung Conference in 1955 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, which was not gratuitous but a product of the struggle of the peripheral countries for their decolonization. Amid this reality, the United States never gave up extending the Monroe Doctrine to the present day. Making the situation worse, imperial irredentism becomes explicit with President Donald Trump. The Panamanian people's distrust of the political elite at this juncture is being reproduced in the collective imagination in a ma…
(2025-02-03). Israeli Finance Minster Smotrich backs Saudi normalization, unless it includes Palestinian state. haaretz.com Smotrich said during a party meeting that he would support Israel normalizing ties with Saudi Arabia on the condition that it is based 'on truth, not lies suggesting that Arabs have national rights in the Land of Israel'…
(2025-02-03). Trump's proposal to "clear out" Gaza a crime against humanity. cpusa.org 
The Communist Party USA unequivocally condemns the illegal, inhumane, and monstrous proposal by President Trump to "clear out" the population of the Gaza Strip. | Trump's suggestion that the Palestinian population should be removed from Gaza and "absorbed" by Egypt and Jordan is a blatant call for population transfer. The United States, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt are all signatories to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), both of which categorically declare forced population transfers illegal. Additionally, the U.S., Jordan, and Egypt are signatories…
(2025-02-03). Why Hasn't the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC? transcend.org 29 Jan 2025 – The UN Security Council has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court, despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(2025-02-03). Canada Props Up Gang-Supported Plunder of Haiti Under Pretext of "Kenyan-Led" Intervention. libya360.wordpress.com Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba A screenshot from The Canada Files' interview with Booker Ngesa Omole, the Communist Party of Kenya (Marxist)'s General Secretary. A Canadian military mission is focused on enabling NATO and its' Kenyan proxy to select gang members in Haiti to guard resource extraction sites, and sanction gang members so when they get into…
(2025-02-02). Thurs. Feb 6: U.S. Role in Regime Change — Libya, Iraq, Syria at 7pm ET — Webinar & In person. iacenter.org Date: Thursday, Feb 6 Time: 7 PM In Person: The New School, NYC, RSVP: bit.ly/tnspanel On Zoom: bit.ly/tnszoom What is regime change, and how has the US used it to target nations like Libya, Iraq, and Syria that resist Western dominance? This event will explore how sanctions, propaganda, and military intervention are wielded as tools of imperialism, plunging nations into chaos under the guise of "human rights" rhetoric. Join us to analyze the devastating consequences of US-led interventions and corporate media propaganda. Spread the word: www.instagram.com/p/DFbE4W7Sczl Questions? Email us at thenewschool…
(2025-02-02). Freed Palestinians bear signs of torture, starvation by Israel. newarab.com Dozens of As part of the agreement between Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails on Saturday. | Dressed in stained grey prison uniforms, many appeared frail and exhausted as they arriv…
(2025-02-02). Palestinian detainees released as 50 patients cross into Egypt. newarab.com 
Hamas freed three Three buses carrying The prisoners, dress…
(2025-02-02). Israel defence chief threatens freed Palestinian detainee. newarab.com Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz took to social media on Thursday to threaten a former Palestinian detainee with reincarceration after the man was released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. | Katz's post on X targeted "One mistake and you're going to meet old friends," Katz
(2025-02-02). 'It's time for a free Palestine': Released detainee Al-Zubaidi. newarab.com 
Freed Palestinian detainee Zakaria Al-Zubaidi said it was time for Israel's occupation of the West Bank to end so Palestinians could have a state of their own, while declining to comment on his time in Israeli detention. | Al-Zubaidi, a commander of Fatah's The renowned resistance figh…
(2025-02-02). Sweden releases suspects over killing of anti-Islam campaigner. newarab.com 
A Swedish prosecutor said on Friday he had decided to release from detention five suspects who were held over the killing on Wednesday of an
(2025-02-02). American human rights lawyer and professor of international law Dr. Francis Boyle has died. expose-news.com Dr. Francis A. Boyle, an American human rights lawyer and professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, died on 30 January 2025 at the age of 74. …
(2025-02-02). Ethiopia: Defend and strengthen the human rights movement against erosion! fidh.org Human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Agasint Torture (OMCT), under the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, express deep concern over the escalating political tensions and ongoing conflicts in Ethiopia.
23 January 2025. The undersigned African civil society organisations (CSOs) and various international non-governmental organisations urgently express our deep concern (…) | – |
(2025-02-02). Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collective. fidh.org 11 organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a civil society group actively opposing the death penalty and advocating for human rights in the country. Read the statement (…) | – |
(2025-02-02). Urgent call to confirm the suspension of Azerbaijan's PACE credentials at winter session 2025. fidh.org In a joint letter, human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, call the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to uphold the suspension of Azerbaijan's credentials for 2025, as escalating repression of civil society in the country violates the principles of the Council of Europe (…) | – |
(2025-02-02). Multinational alliance pushing for legal, diplomatic and economic sanctions against Israel. haaretz.com Government ministers from nine African and South American countries announced the group's launch on Friday, saying, 'When future generations inquire about our contribution to Palestine's right to self-determination, our response must be, we took concrete measures'…