Egyptian court grants provisional release to human rights researcher Patrick George Zaki
Zaki was arrested in February 2020 after returning to Egypt from Italy where he was studying at the University of Bologna. He has since spent 22 months in pre-trial detention on various charges
Indonesia court rejects permit plea for palm oil plantations in Papua and other stories
Today we look at a court order denying permits for palm oil plantations in Papua, the Marriage Equality bill passed by Chile’s parliament, and more
Senate probe seeks to charge Jair Bolsonaro as COVID deaths cross 600k and other stories
Today we look at an upcoming senate report on the Brazilian government’s COVID-19 response, the trial of Egyptian officers in the murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, and more
Global outcry for the release of Egyptian student
Samir was detained by the Cairo police on February 1 and his whereabouts were unknown till Saturday, February 6
Egyptian student Ahmed Samir Santawy remanded to 15 days in prison
Ahmed Samir Santawy, a student of the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, was detained by the police in Cairo on February 1, leading to an international outcry
Activists demand justice for Giulio Regeni who was kidnapped and murdered in Egypt
Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student at Cambridge University, was kidnapped on January 25, 2016 from Cairo. His body was found a few days later with torture marks. He had been working on Egyptian trade unions for his dissertation
- Israeli massacres, settler violence surge in Gaza and West Bank
- Israel continues to target Palestinian and foreign journalists
- Argentine Chamber of Deputies ratifies Milei’s veto of university funding law
- Israel commits new massacre in Damascus, continues attacks on Lebanon and Gaza
- Undercover Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in Nablus
