Daily Archives: January 25, 2025

2025-01-25: News Headlines

newarab (2025-01-25). Freed Palestinian women speak on torture in Israeli prisons. newarab.com Between feelings of deep joy at her release from an Yasmine was The 26-year-old from Bethlehem…

Palestine Chronicle (2025-01-25). Israel Further Extends Concentration Camp for Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. indybay.org On January 9, the Kangaroo Court of Ashkelon extended Dr. Hussam's detention without charges until February 13. "He was denied access to his legal counsel and participated in the hearing via video call," Al Mezan stated. After the hearing, he was transferred to Ofer Prison, where Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, the head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was murdered after four months of torture by the Israeli regime on April 19, 2024. For more information on Dr. Adnan's torture and murder, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_al-Bursh

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-25). 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 (…) | – |

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-25). 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 (…) | – |

John Kiriakou, Consortium News. (2025-01-24). Pardon Me For Being Angry. popularresistance.org I'm angry right now, and I've decided to write anyway. | It's no secret that I asked President Joe Biden to pardon me for my 2008 violation of the obscure Intelligence Identities Act of 1981. | My case for a pardon was strong. But I was ignored. Again. And this is despite the fact that Biden pardoned his entire immediate family, a crooked Pennsylvania judge who literally sold children into bondage, and a Chinese spy, in addition to giving "preemptive pardons" to General Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the members and staff of the Jan. 6 Committee.

John Kiriakou, Consortium News. (2025-01-24). Pardon Me For Being Angry. popularresistance.org I'm angry right now, and I've decided to write anyway. | It's no secret that I asked President Joe Biden to pardon me for my 2008 violation of the obscure Intelligence Identities Act of 1981. | My case for a pardon was strong. But I was ignored. Again. And this is despite the fact that Biden pardoned his entire immediate family, a crooked Pennsylvania judge who literally sold children into bondage, and a Chinese spy, in addition to giving "preemptive pardons" to General Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the members and staff of the Jan. 6 Committee.

newarab (2025-01-24). After this carnage in Gaza, don't expect gratitude for ceasefire. newarab.com When my family and I emerged from the The same uncertainty is now present again, feeling like the moment of terror and fatigue has only paused but never actually passed. Once again, we're trying to feel joy amid the uncertain calm of another ceasefire in Gaza. | For the first time in 15 months, the drones have stopped humming, the fighter jets have retreated, and the bombs have ceased t…

aljazeera (2025-01-24). Three killed in Russian drone attack on Ukraine's Kyiv region. aljazeera.com Ukraine also sends volley of drones into Russia, with air defences intercepting attacks on 13 regions, including Moscow.

newarab (2025-01-24). After this carnage in Gaza, don't expect gratitude for ceasefire. newarab.com When my family and I emerged from the The same uncertainty is now present again, feeling like the moment of terror and fatigue has only paused but never actually passed. Once again, we're trying to feel joy amid the uncertain calm of another ceasefire in Gaza. | For the first time in 15 months, the drones have stopped humming, the fighter jets have retreated, and the bombs have ceased t…

Staff (2025-01-24). Entregan al programa radio televisivo Mesa Redonda símbolo de Guantánamo. cubadebate.cu El Cemí de Gran Tierra de Maisí, figura antropomórfica, representativa de la cultura aborigen, y que desde 1997, tras consulta popular, se convirtió en el símbolo de la provincia de Guantánamo, le fue conferido al programa radio televisivo Mesa Redonda, creado en diciembre de 1999 por iniciativa del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz.

Staff (2025-01-24). Guantánamo en recuperación, hoy en la Mesa Redonda. mesaredonda.cubadebate.cu El Primer Secretario del Partido en Guantánamo, Yoel Pérez García, la gobernadora del territorio, Alis Azahares Torreblanca y otras autoridades de la provincia, comparecerán este viernes en la Mesa Redonda para dialogar sobre el proceso de recuperación del huracán Oscar y el desarrollo del territorio.

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-24). 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 (…) | – |

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-24). 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 (…) | – |

presstv.ir (2025-01-24). Palestinian prisoner dies from torture in Israeli jail: Rights groups. presstv.ir A pair of Palestinian prisoners' rights groups says Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Hussein al-Aref has died from brutal torture he endured at an Israeli detention center.

newarab (2025-01-24). Torture victims file UN complaints over Tunisian abusers' impunity. newarab.com Complaints have been lodged with the UN Committee against Torture on behalf of six Tunisian victims protesting the failure of authorities to secure a single torture conviction, a human rights group said Thursday. | Since the launch in 2018 of special courts tasked with trying alleged cases of torture under the authoritarian governments that preceded the Arab Spring of 2011, "not one trial has led to a verdict", the vice-president of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Mokhtar Trifi, told reporters. | The OMCT's Tunisian branch is supporting complaints to the UN committee by two former prisoners and…

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-24). 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 (…) | – |

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-24). 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 (…) | – |

newarab (2025-01-24). Torture victims file UN complaints over Tunisian abusers' impunity. newarab.com Complaints have been lodged with the UN Committee against Torture on behalf of six Tunisian victims protesting the failure of authorities to secure a single torture conviction, a human rights group said Thursday. | Since the launch in 2018 of special courts tasked with trying alleged cases of torture under the authoritarian governments that preceded the Arab Spring of 2011, "not one trial has led to a verdict", the vice-president of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Mokhtar Trifi, told reporters. | The OMCT's Tunisian branch is supporting complaints to the UN committee by two former prisoners and…

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