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On 9 February, Frederik (Frik) Potgieter (54) and Peter Huxham (55), a dual SA-UK citizen, will have been in detention in Equatorial Guinea for a year on what they insist are trumped-up charges.
Opinion - During the past two decades, intentional attacks on aid or humanitarian workers have become a disturbing trend, Alexander Gillespie writes.
Police, communities across US fight back against anti-Asian hate crimes Across the United States, law enforcement agencies are scrambling to better protect Asian communities amid a wave of violence targeting them since lockdowns Updated 05 April 2021 April 05, 2021 10:00 SAN JOSE: More than a dozen San Jose, California, police officers walked through the white arches of the Grand Century Mall in “Little Saigon” to reassure a Vietnamese-American community fearful over the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. The officers walked through the arcade of hair and nail salons, r...
Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 16, 2020 | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at her parents’ home after temporary release from Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran, March 17, 2020 Members of the UK Parliament have called for action over Iran’s holding of British political prisoners. In a Tuesday report, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee recommended designation of the detentions as “State hostage taking”. They called for proscription of the Reovlutionary Guards, which carries out and oversees the imprisonments, as a “terrorist” organization. At least four UK-Iran dual nationals are in prison or under...
MPs say UK government strategy on Iran prisoners not working Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: PA The UK should do more to constrain Iran by proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist group and formally describe the Iranian practice of detaining British dual nationals as state hostage taking, the all-party foreign affairs select committee has said. The report finds that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s current approach to seeking the release of detainees is not working. There are least four Br...