Published Thursday, May 27, 2021 6:33PM EDT OTTAWA - A human rights group says in a new report that Iran has harassed families of passengers killed aboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. Human Rights Watch says from last fall until January, it spoke with 31 family members of victims and “people with direct knowledge” of how Iranian authorities treated relatives. In all, 176 people were killed when an Iranian surface-to-air missile shot down a passenger jet destined for Kyiv minutes after takeoff near Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020. Among the dead were 55 Canadians and 30 permanent residents. Human Rights Watch says those it spoke with say Iranian security agencies have mistreated victims families through arbitrary detainment, interrogation and intimidation.
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This country’s Minister of Agriculture, Saboto Caesar, who is now chair of the Ministerial Council of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), has urged fellow ministers responsible for Fisheries across the Caribbean to prioritise the Blue Economy, to strengthen the region’s COVID-19 recovery efforts. The ‘Blue Economy’ is an emerging concept which encourages better use and conservation of the ocean or ‘blue’ resources to boost economic growth and to tackle unemployment, food security and poverty.
A release said that the Ministerial Council has been forced to meet virtually since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that has not stopped them from making monumental progress in steering the fisheries and aquaculture sector forward, with carefully designed policies and plans, despite very challenging times.
In this handout photo released Monday, May 24, 2021, by Belarus Government press office, Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich speaks to a camera in a prison in Minsk, Belarus. The G7 says it will ramp up its efforts to hold Belarus accountable for arresting a dissident journalist on board an intercepted jetliner. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Belarus Government press office via AP
OTTAWA – A United Nations agency is launching an investigation into Belarus’s arrest of a dissident journalist after his flight was diverted on dubious pretences last Sunday.
The governing body of the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said Thursday it will open a fact-finding probe into “the apparent forced diversion” of the airliner, which saw Belarusian authorities detain journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.
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