[ARABNEWS] A Tunisian appeals court commuted the prison sentence of a TV broadcaster from one year to eight months on Friday, his lawyer told AFP.
Borhen Bssais was initially handed a 12-month sentence under a decree punishing "spreading false information" and "defaming others or damaging their reputation."
"The Court of Appeal in the capital Tunis decided to reduce Bssais’s sentence from 12 months to eight," his lawyer, Nizar Ayed, said.
Bssais was arrested on May 11 and charged with "attacking President Kais Saied through radio broadcasts and statements between 2019 and 2022."
Tunisia’s Decree 54, the law under which Bssais was convicted, was enacted by Saied in 2022 to combat "false news."
But critics have said it has been used to stifle political dissent as the country prepares for a presidential election set for October 6.
Over the past 18 months, more than 60 critical voices have been prosecuted under the decree, according to the National Union of Tunisian Journalists.
Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard said on Friday she found it "alarming and distressing to witness the drastic rollback of the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... progress that Tunisia had made since the 2011 revolution."
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[REUTERS] At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in Borno state, the hotbed of a Boko Haram militant insurgency, two vigilante officers said on Friday.
Nigeria faces a raft of security challenges including a long-running Islamist insurgency in the northeast, separatist violence in the southeast, rampant oil theft in the Niger Delta and kidnapping for ransom by criminal gangs.
Shaibu Musa, a local vigilante officer helping to combat the insurgents, said a military vehicle was travelling along the road linking the villages of Monguno and Baga on Thursday when the vehicle detonated an improvised explosive device.
The military did not immediately respond to request for comment on the incident.
Another security official, Isa Bukar, said the explosion occurred on Thursday morning after soldiers on patrol triggered the mine, which killed seven of them.
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[LEADERSHIP.NG] No fewer than 125 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Death Eaters and financiers have been convicted in the resumed mass trial held over two days in Kainji town, Niger State.
They were convicted of charges bordering on terrorism, terrorism financing, rendering material support, and cases relating to International Criminal Court (ICC) criminality.
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), is superintending over the trial in conjunction with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
The trials, held under Giwa Project Kanji Phase Five, between Tuesday and Wednesday, were before five Federal High Court judges led by Justice Binta Nyako.
Others were Justices Joyce Abdulmalik, Emeka Nwite, Obiora Egwuatu, and Mobolaji Olajuwon.
The prosecution team was led by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Federation, Mohammed Babadoko Abubakar, while the defence team was led by Mr Abdulfatai Bakre from the Legal Aids Council.
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[FoxNews] U.S. forces in the Middle East have destroyed Houthi drones in Yemen in the past 24 hours, the military said Friday.
Separately, forces with the U.S. Central Command destroyed three uncrewed Houthi surface vessels operating of the Yemeni coast, CENTCOM said.
"It was determined these weapons presented an imminent threat to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region," a Centcom statement said. "These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure."
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US-British alliance launched on Friday a new aerial aggression on Hodeidah province, western Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
A security source in the province said that the US British aircraft conducted four Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Kamaran Island.
On Thursday, the aggression aircraft bombed Hodeidah International Airport with five airstrikes.
The US-UK aggressive airstrikes on Yemen continue in clear violation of Yemeni illusory sovereignty, as an attempt to deter Yemen from its decision to prevent Israeli ships from passing through the Red Sea in support of the Paleostinian people in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, who are facing a genocidal war by the savage Zionist entity.
[ARABNEWS] The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the US, due to conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, US President Joe Biden said in a memo on Friday.
The measure, under an authority known as Deferred Enforced Departure, will allow Lebanese nationals to remain in the US for 18 months and could be renewed.
The announcement comes after Vice President Kamala Harris pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to help reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that would ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians, striking a tougher tone than Biden. Harris has emerged as the likely Democratic presidential nominee after Biden ended his campaign on Sunday.
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire since Hezbollah announced a “support front” with Palestinians shortly after its ally Hamas attacked southern Israeli border communities on Oct. 7, triggering Israel’s military assault in Gaza.
Hezbollah is an Iran-backed militant group and the most powerful military and political force in Lebanon.
US Representative Debbie Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, which is home to Lebanese Americans in Detroit and elsewhere, applauded the move and estimated it would cover 11,500 people.
[GEO.TV] Security forces killed a terrorist during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's North Wazoo district carried out on the reported presence of murderous Moslems, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Friday.
"On 26 July 24, the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in North Waziristan District on the reported presence of terrorists," said the army's media wing.
During the conduct of the operation, "Khawarji terrorist Razzaq was sent to hell" after an intense exchange of gunfire, according to the statement.
The terrorist was a "close associate of Khawarji Gul Bahadur" and was actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area, including the target-killing of Malik Sher Muhammad, grandson of Faqir of Ippi on January 6, 2023 as well as the facilitation of a suicide kaboom attack in North Waziristan on March 16, 2024 which resulted in shahadat of seven brave soldiers, the statement added.
The ISPR further said that sanitisation operation was launched to eliminate any other terrorist found in the area as the security forces of Pakistain remain determined to eradicate the menace of terrorism from the country.
A day earlier, forces killed a terrorist in yet another IBO conducted in Balochistan's Hoshab district where they engaged in a shootout with the terrorists, the ISPR had said.
Earlier this week, security forces killed three terrorists, thwarting their attempt to infiltrate Pakistain via the Afghanistan border in district Dir of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), as per the ISPR.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, released on Thursday video footage showing their fighters targeting Zionist enemy vehicles on the axes of incursion in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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What odds they’re human shields for yet another Hamas tunnel entrance, dear Reader?
[GEO.TV] After weeks of Israeli bombardment left them with nowhere else to go, hundreds of Paleostinians have ended up in a former Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... prison built to hold murderers and thieves.
Yasmeen al-Dardasi said she and her family passed maimed people they were unable to help as they evacuated from a district in the southern city of Khan Younis towards its Central Correction and Rehabilitation Facility.
They spent a day under a tree before moving on to the former prison, where they now live in a prayer room. It offers protection from the blistering sun, but not much else.
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All 180,000 of whom were not killed by Israel, so they should be grateful instead of whining about it.
[GEO.TV] More than 180,000 Paleostinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... city of Khan Yunis in four days, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Friday.
Recent "intensified hostilities" in the Khan Yunis area, more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war, have fuelled "new waves of internal displacement across Gaza", said the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA.
It said "about 182,000 people" have been displaced from central and eastern Khan Yunis between Monday and Thursday, and hundreds are "stranded in eastern Khan Yunis".
The Israeli military on Monday ordered the evacuation of parts of the southern city, announcing its forces would "forcefully operate" there, including in an area previously declared a safe humanitarian zone.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
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Wazoo
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
