Geneva – A United Nations Commission on Human Rights report held Italy responsible for failing to protect more than 200 asylum seekers, including 60 minors, who drowned after their boat crashed off the Italian coast in October 2013. The Euro-Mediterranean .
Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 6:13 am
We warmly commend the decision of the Court of Rome,
deeming the pushbacks of asylum seekers and migrants on the
Italian-Slovenian border illegal; condemning the Italian
Ministry of the Interior and acknowledging the inhuman and
degrading treatment migrants are subjected to along the
Balkan Route; Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a
statement today. We further urge the EU Commission to step
in to put an end to Italy’s informal readmissions and
illegal push backs in the Balkan Route.
On 18 January
2021, with a
13-page verdict the Judge Silvia Albano of the Court of
Rome declared the illegality of informal readmissions of
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 7:02 am
Geneva – An Israeli district court
issued a condemnable decision banning the screening of the
film Jenin, Jenin”, which sheds light on the Israeli
army s violations in Jenin camp in the northern West Bank
during its “Operation Defensive Shield” in 2002, the
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement
on Tuesday.
The Israeli court decision issued on
Monday included a ban on distributing the film, an order to
confiscate all copies, and obligating its director, Muhammad
Bakri to pay a financial compensation of 175,000 shekels,
(the equivalent of more than $55,000) for the plaintiff
Israeli soldier. In addition, the director must bear the
Monday, 11 January 2021, 6:14 am
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor strongly
condemned a Saudi court’s imprisonment sentence against a
Saudi academic more than three years after his arrest over
peacefully expressing his opinion.
In a press release,
Euro-Med Monitor stated that on Friday, the Riyadh-based
Specialized Criminal Court imposed a four-year sentence
against academic Muhammad Saud Al-Bisher. In September 2017,
Al-Bisher was arrested over expressing his views concerning
the need for a lack of censorship over media content
directed at the public opinion in the country. It is worth
mentioning that Al-Bisher is a professor of political media
at Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh and the
Monday, 11 January 2021, 6:17 am
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor welcomed the
efforts of the Research and Identification of Missing
Persons after discovering two new mass graves that contain
corpses of people who have not been identified yet, in the
city of Tarhuna, in the agricultural zone known as
“Mashro’a Al-Rabet”.
In a brief press release on
Saturday, Euro-Med Monitor stated that the Government of
National Accord have discovered about 27 mass graves in
Tarhuna, 93 kilometers southeast of the capital Tripoli,
after expelling the Kaniyat militia, accused of killing,
kidnapping, arresting, and torturing hundreds of the
town’s citizens.
Since the Kaniyat militia took