“Hello, Papi, I am in Brazil.”
A text message I received sitting in my home office after nearly a month of silence signified Victor Arellano’s nine-month battle had just been won. Arellano escaped Venezuela with a bullet in his spine, fleeing across violent and treacherous terrains, to have a chance of survival in a place providing no guarantees of a better life.
Early last year, when the pandemic first began its lethal assault upon the world, Arellano, a 30-year-old gay man, was walking home from a friend’s at dusk. He was shot point-blank in the face and was left with a bullet lodged between the joints of his cervical spine that missed his spinal cord by only millimeters.
إدريس السدراوي يخوض إضرابا عن الطعام وحقوقيون يطالبون بإطلاق سراحه
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Rejoining United Nations Human Rights Council would be a mistake
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[ Last Update: Sunday, 04 April 2021 8:26 AM ] This file picture shows an overview of the session of the Human Rights Council during the speech of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 27, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
International human rights lawyer and political commentator Edward Corrigan says Bahrain’s absence for a vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on a resolution condemning Israeli violations in the occupied territories reflects public anger over normalization of ties with Tel Aviv.
“I am very sure that the vast majority of people in Bahrain do not support this decision to sell out Palestinians. I believe that the decision to be absent at the vote is a reflection of the lack of support for this decision in Bahrain,” Corrigan said in an exclusive interview with Press TV .