Category: 1. Palestine

Four Russian journalists have been sentenced to over 5 years in prison for alleged ties to late opposition leader Alexey Navalny. All four reject the charges and supporters say they are being punished simply for doing their jobs.

The decision was welcomed by some activists, but transgender campaigners warned it could lead to discrimination.

The United Kingdom’s highest court has ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” refer to a “biological woman and biological sex” under British equality laws, a landmark decision greeted with concern by supporters of transgender rights but welcomed by the government as bringing clarity.

The highly anticipated ruling on Wednesday centred on whether a trans woman with a…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Detained following a siege on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in December, Dr. Abu Safiya has been subjected to torture, solitary confinement and denial of adequate medical care.

The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained by Israel since December, is being held in “inhumane” conditions and enduring “physical and psychological intimidation”,…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, released a new video today showing an Israeli soldier prisoner held in Gaza.

The prisoner, identified as Rom Braslavsky, appeared gaunt and distressed. Speaking directly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said: “My blood is on your hands, Netanyahu. Where are your promises to free us?”

Braslavsky described his time in imprisonment as “a year and a…

The armed group claims to have seized control of Adan Yabaal town, but the Somali army disputes the battle outcome.

The al-Shabab armed group has claimed to have seized control of Adan Yabaal, a town in central Somalia and a logistical hub for the government forces, about 220 kilometres (130 miles) north of the capital, Mogadishu.

The fighters launched the raids before dawn on Wednesday, forcing the army to retreat after fierce battles, according to a security officer quoted by the Anadolu…

After three years of poor rainfall, in 2018, Cape Town announced drastic action to avoid running out of water completely. In this film, three activists fight for “water justice” and expose the socioeconomic divide and the environmental “cracks” in South Africa’s water management system. In Cape Town’s “Day Zero” water crisis in 2018, Faeza Meyer…

After deporting 238 alleged Venezuelan gang members and 23 members of a Salvadoran gang to a maximum-security El Salvador prison last month, US President Donald Trump is now contemplating deporting criminals who are United States citizens there as well, he told reporters on Monday.

But Trump’s latest plan will probably face multiple legal challenges. Forcibly sending American passport holders outside the country is likely illegal, experts say, and Trump himself signed a bill during his…

A trio of nameless statues buried in the archives of the Australian Museum triggers a great-granddaughter’s quest to honour her ancestors and reclaim their life stories. In 1925, Australia’s Census declared Aboriginal people a “dying race”.

The Australian Museum commissioned three statues of Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be…

“There’s no place left for us to go,” said Malek, a Palestinian father of two in his mid-thirties who was displaced to the Mawasi area of Khan Younis after Israel resumed its carpet-bombing campaign in Gaza in mid-March. “Now the occupation army has dropped leaflets ordering people to evacuate almost every place in Gaza. They’re telling us to evacuate everywhere.” 

“So, I know that my family and I will have to move again not before long,” Malek surmised. 

Malek…