At Least 130 Migrants Feared Drowned in Mediterranean, Bodies Found
The UN agencies called for reactivating state-led search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean and for a halt to returning migrants to unsafe ports .
A rubber boat is seen after having capsized with more than 100 migrants on board, during a search and rescue (SAR) operation in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan Coast, April 22, 2021. Flavio Gasperini/Sos Mediterranee/Handout via REUTERS
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Milan: A search in the Mediterranean sea for boats packed with migrants has found ten bodies floating near a capsized rubber boat that was believed to have been carrying 130 people, the French humanitarian organisation SOS Mediterranee said.
Saudi detains wife, daughter-in-law of ex-Hamas official
Palestinians stand in solidarity with detained ex-Hamas leader Khodari [Middle East Monitor] April 22, 2021 at 9:48 am
Saudi security forces stormed the house of Palestinian detainee Mohamed Al-Khodari in Jeddah yesterday and took his 70-year-old wife Wijdan and daughter-in-law to a security centre, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said.
According to Euro-Med, both women were detained for several hours and were released after authorities forced them to sign a pledge not to talk about the health and incarceration conditions of prisoner Khodari and his son, Hani, who is also in detention.
According to testimonies collected by the Euro-Med team, security officers interrogated Al-Khodari s wife, searched and filmed her house and confiscated her phone.
Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The Moroccan authorities have continued to detain journalists Omar Al-Radi and Suleiman Al-Raissouni in Oukacha prison in Casablanca, which led them to declare a hunger strike to demand their release, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in a statement expressing great concern over their health condition. My son’s health condition is extremely poor inside the prison, as he has lost about ten kilograms since his arrest
Idris Al-Radi, Omar Al-Radi’s father
The Prosecutor of the Court of First Instance in Casablanca detained Omar Al-Radi, president of the Le Desk magazine on July 29 last year. Al-Radi had been summoned more than eight times within five weeks, during which, he was interrogated for about 100 hours. These were based on charges related to receiving foreign funding from foreign intelligence groups, and sexually assaulting a colleague working in the magazine, who claimed that he
Friday, 16 April 2021, 6:29 am
Geneva
- The Moroccan authorities have continued to detain
journalists Omar Al-Radi and Suleiman Al-Raissouni in
Oukacha prison in Casablanca, which led them to declare a
hunger strike to demand their release, the
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in a
statement expressing great concern over their health
condition.
The Prosecutor of the Court of First
Instance in Casablanca detained Omar Al-Radi, president of
the Le Desk magazine on July 29 last year. Al-Radi had been
summoned more than eight times within five weeks, during
which, he was interrogated for about 100 hours. These were
based on charges related to receiving foreign funding from
Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 5:32 pm
Geneva - Landmines scattered across various conflicted
areas in Syria endanger the lives and safety of civilians,
the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a report
released today. All parties to the conflict should stop
using landmines, uncover their locations and cooperate to
neutralize their danger.
The report highlighted the
large use of mines in the Syrian conflict, as there are
still a huge number of them scattered among civilian homes
and in agricultural lands. They are a result of the extended
military operations during the past years up until the
present day.
The human and material losses caused by