The son of an imprisoned Bahraini activist has been on hunger strike for more than a week, in protest of his father being denied urgent medical care in a Bahrain jail. Ali Mushaima, 35, is the son of Hassan Mushaima, a 70-year-old political leader who was arrested as part of a violent crackdown on...
The Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has said earlier this week that sports brand Adidas is no longer a sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA). The big win came after the BDS movement being boycotting Adidas since 2012 and calling upon others to do the...
“We want equality!” Over 50,000 protesters chanted in Tel Aviv on Saturday night at an unprecedented demonstration led by the Druze community holding colourful Druze flags alongside Israeli ones against the nation-state law and the Knesset’s refusal to include any mention of equality for...
The Canadian foreign ministry and the Canadian embassy in Riyadh urged the Saudi authorities to “immediately release” civil rights activists. “We urge the Saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful human rights activists,” the Canadian embassy tweeted on Friday....
Air strikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition have hit a hospital's entrance, fishing port and fish market in the Yemeni city of Hodeida. A source at Hodeida's health office said that 55 people were killed in the strikes, with more than 100 wounded. Both figures are likely to rise as the...