UN Human Rights agency releases report on Khashoggi murder The United Nations Human Rights Council released a 99 page report detailing the gruesome murder of former Saudi advocate and later Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi Government, Jamal Khashoggi, on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Khashoggi had been an insider with special access and…
President Trump stands with Saudi Arabia President Donald Trump released the following statement reinforcing his administration’s support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the face of the investigation into the Saudi killing of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018, in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey: The world is a…
Saudi leaders acknowledge role in death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi Officials for the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia acknowledge that journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been killed claiming it was the result of a fight that began after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2018. Khashoggi was a deputy editor at…
Syrian journalist murdered with mother in Turkey Orient News English reported that their English language editor Halla Barakat was found murdered in her apartment with her mother this morning in Turkey. Barakat was a fierce critic of the violence in Syria and was investigating war crimes there. She was investigating abuses and torture of prisoners…
Israel suspected in murder of Palestinian Mazen Faqha Mazan Faqha was a political prisoner in Israel released in the 2011 prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on June 25, 2006. Shalit was with a group of soldiers at a military outpost when members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Bridgade captured him, holding him for five years. The…
Israel suspected in murder of Palestinian Mazen Faqha
By Mohammed Asad |
Israel suspected in murder of Palestinian Mazen Faqha Mazan Faqha was a political prisoner in Israel released in the 2011 prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on June 25, 2006. Shalit was with a group of soldiers at a military outpost when members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Bridgade captured him, holding him for five years. The…
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