Civil rights activists are demanding that Nigeria arrest Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and deliver him to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for crimes in Darfur. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project Monday urged President Goodluck Jonathan “to support the demand by the international community for justice for the victims of
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling on authorities in a German state to investigate threatening anti-Israel rhetoric, including chants of “Down with Israel” and “Israel be cursed” at a rally last week in support of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. “We are horrified that supporters of Prime Minister Erdogan are using political protests in
The man appointed to be Egypt’s new foreign minister once served as the country’s ambassador to the United States. Nabil Fahmy accepted his new post on Sunday morning as the interim government in Cairo continues to be established two weeks after the overthrow of former President Mohamed Morsi. According to the website of the
Egypt’s public prosecutor on Sunday ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists, as the U.S. dispatched its first senior official to Cairo since President Mohammed Mursi’s ouster. U.S. Under Secretary of State Bill Burns will visit Egypt from Sunday to Tuesday, the State Department said, adding he would “underscore U.S.
Egypt’s military leadership had urged ousted President Mohammad Mursi “twice” to hold a referendum on whether he should stay in power to avoid political turmoil, the country’s Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday. “The military forces have worked to give an opportunity for politicians to be responsible and to
Egyptian security officials arrested a Palestinian Authority Arab man on Friday in connection to a bomb blast which targeted a gas pipeline in Sinai last week, security officials told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. Mohamed Abu Hashem, 30, was detained in the Sinai Peninsula while trying to return to Gaza, Egyptian officials
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is officially under criminal investigation, the public prosecutor announced in a statement Saturday. Although not yet formally charged, prosecutors said they were looking into complaints of incitement to violence, spying and ruining the economy. The charges are similar to those leveled against eight other top figures in the
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed alarm at reports that U.S. officials have conducted "direct meetings" with Hamas leaders and has called upon the Obama Administration to deny these reports if they are untrue. The United States, Europe and Israel all classify the Hamas movement, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since
Germany and the United States on Friday called for the release of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi amid mounting tensions between supporters and opponents over his overthrow. "We call for an end to the restrictions on Mr. Morsi's whereabouts," a German foreign ministry spokesman told reporters, according to the AFP news agency. The
Tensions between rival Syrian rebel groups boiled over Saturday near Ras al-Hosn, in the north of Idlib province. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) clashed with jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), exposing a growing rift between Al Qaeda-affiliated groups and
