[NEWARAB] Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused Emirati authorities of making a "mockery of justice" over the trial of 57 Bangladeshis who received lengthy prison sentences for protesting in the Gulf country.
The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms where demonstrations are banned, issued the verdict on Sunday after a swift investigation.
An Abu Dhabi court sentenced three Bangladeshis to life imprisonment and the others to jail terms of 10 to 11 years for taking part in protests against their government across the UAE on Friday.
The New York-based HRW criticised the "abusively fast judicial proceedings", saying they raised "serious concerns about fairness and due process".
Joey Shea, HRW's UAE researcher, said the sentences made "a mockery of justice".
"There is no way defendants can receive a fair trial when the investigation was launched and completed, trial commenced, and verdict rendered in less than 48 hours," she added.
UAE authorities provided few details about the protests, but HRW said videos it verified showed large demonstrations across several emirates, including Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
One video recorded near Dubai Mall showed "hundreds, possibly thousands, of protesters gathered on the road replicating slogans raised by the students in Bangladesh," HRW said.
Protests have swept Bangladesh this month against a quota system for civil service jobs that critics say benefits supporters of autocratic Prime Minister the loathesome the loathesome Sheikh Hasina >...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums...>
>...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums...>
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , Vassily Nebenzia, criticized on Tuesday the role of certain countries, particularly the United States and its allies, in fueling the situation instead of calming the tensions in 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... , according to al-Mayadeen website.
Nebenzia said during a UN Security Council meeting that the United States and its allies preferred to use force first, adding that the coalition led by the US and Britannia, which carried out aggression against Yemen, has been exposed.
"Some States — instead of working to calm the situation — are trying to put out the fire with fuel and prioritizing the use of force," he said, stressing that these Western countries should focus on ending the war on 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... and promoting an intra-Yemeni settlement.
At the same time, Russia has consistently advocated for the need to ensure the "safety and security of international navigation and condemn any actions that threaten the safety of ships," he pointed out.
The Russian diplomat noted that nearly six months of American and British strikes on Yemen have "failed to impair" the capabilities of the Yemeni Armed Forces, citing the recent drone attack that targeted the occupied city of Yafa [Tel Aviv] as clear evidence.
Nebenzia added that the Yemen has, in fact, strengthened its regional presence, increased its attacks on ships, and boosted its popularity following the strike on Tel Aviv.
He explained that Yemen’s targeting of Tel Aviv and "Israel’s" following strike on Hodeidah are fundamentally linked to the situation in the Gaza Strip, adding that the connection between what is happening in Gaza and the Red Sea is clear and denying it is a significant mistake.
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[KavkazUzel] Four defendants in the case of the riots at the airport that took place in October 2023 have been released from a detention center in Makhachkala.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on October 29, 2023, mass riots occurred at the Makhachkala airport due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots, including nine police officers. 140 people are in custody in criminal cases regarding the riots at the Makhachkala airport, 1,200 people were brought to administrative responsibility, Dagestan Interior Minister Abdurashid Magomedov reported on July 9. The accused claim that they were at the airport, but did not take part in the riots, Dagestan POC Chairman Shamil Khadulaev said on June 13.
Four people arrested in connection with the riots at the Makhachkala airport have been released from custody, Interfax reported today, citing the chairman of the Dagestan public monitoring commission, Shamil Khadulaev.
"Four defendants in the airport case have been released from Makhachkala's SIZO-1," Khadulaev wrote today on his Telegram channel. He listed their names: Arsen Arbuliev, Saidapandi Abdulazizov, Nazhmudin Abakarov and Malik Aliyev
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also wrote that the Armavir City Court twice postponed the start of the hearing of the case of riots at the Makhachkala airport against five defendants - Anvarbek Atayev, Islam Ibragimov, Magomed Omaraskhabov, Rabadan Radzhabov and Salik Ramazanov. The arrest of the accused was extended until December 30.
At the hearing of the Armavir City Court on the case of riots at the Makhachkala airport, the state prosecutor asked to sentence the five defendants to terms of seven to 10 years.
The defendant in the pogrom case, Magomed Omaraskhabov, was at the Makhachkala airport for family reasons, another defendant, Anvarbek Aliyev, came out of curiosity, the lawyers said. Several more cases will soon be submitted to the courts of Kuban and Stavropol, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia reported.
[NEWARAB] Germany on Wednesday banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre, an association that has been under investigation for several months over its alleged support for Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Hezbollah group and its links to Iran.
Tehran reacted in fury, summoning Germany's ambassador to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to condemn Berlin's "hostile action" which it branded as a "clear example of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... Germany's Interior Ministry accused the centre of presenting itself as a purely religious organization with no political agenda, but said its probe has found the contrary to be true.
In a statement, the ministry said that it "banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre and its affiliated organizations throughout Germany to date, as it is an Islamist krazed killer organization pursuing anti-constitutional objectives".
Accusing the group of being a "direct representative of Iran's supreme leader", the ministry said the centre spreads Tehran's ideology "in an aggressive and bully boy manner".
It is allegedly seeking to "establish authoritarian, theocratic rule" in place of a democracy, said the ministry, accusing the centre of backing the "military and political dimension" of organizations like Hezbollah. It is also believed to propagate anti-Semitism, the ministry claimed.
Investigators raided 53 properties allegedly linked to the centre across Germany on Wednesday, and the ban will also be imposed on several organizations related to the Hamburg centre - including four Shia mosques.
"I want to make it very clear: We are not taking action against a religion," said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
"We are drawing a clear distinction between the Islamist murderous Moslems that we are cracking down on and the many Moslems who belong to our country and live according to their faith.
"This ban absolutely does not apply to the peaceful practice of the Shia religion," she stressed. ... if any.
Deutsche Welle has more, including a photo of the very pretty Blue Mosque where the group worships in Hamburg:
The Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) was under investigation for several months over its alleged support for Leb's Hezbollah group which is backed by Iran. Hezbollah is classified as a terrorist group by Germany.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Wednesday that the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) would be banned for propagating extremism and that its famous "Blue Mosque" was being searched by police.
"It is very important to me to make a clear distinction here: we are not acting against a religion," Faeser said, but just against a group accused of undermining the German state as well as women's rights.
The Imam Ali Mosque, known locally as the Blue Mosque, is one of Germany's oldest mosques and is operated by the IZH.
The IZH is being probed for "spreading aggressive antisemitism," Faeser said on Wednesday, adding that raids against the group in November established proof of connections to Hezbollah and led to Wednesday's ban.
In a statement, the Interior Ministry said that it "banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre and its affiliated organizations throughout Germany to date, as it is an Islamist murderous Moslem organization pursuing anti-constitutional objectives".
The ministry accused the organization of spreading Iranian revolutionary ideas, writing the IZH worked to spread those ideas "in an aggressive and Death Eater manner."
There had been calls for years from Hamburg residents to investigate the IZH.
Affiliated institutions in the federal states of Bremen, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin were also being investigated. The ministry said 53 properties were being searched, and four mosques were shut.
In 2020, Germany designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and banned its activities on German soil.
[NYPOST] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mocked campus protesters opposed to his nation’s war effort as "Iran’s useful idiots" during a joint address to Congress on Wednesday — as he urged the US to remain steadfast in its support to eliminate Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... Death Eaters .
"Many anti-Israel protesters, many choose to stand with evil, they stand with Hamas, they stand with rapists and murderers," Netanyahu declared during his almost hour-long speech to Senate and House politicians.
To punctuate his point, the Israeli leader cited a statement from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence that revealed Iran’s financial support for antisemitic demonstrations that spread across college campuses this spring.
Excuses from the absentees can be read at the link.
[Newsweek] Newsweek has collated a list of prominent Democrats who have announced they will not be attending Netanyahu's address. It should be noted that some of those who have said they will attend are fierce Netanyahu critics including New York House Democrat Jerry Nadler, who on Tuesday described him as the "worst leader in Jewish history" for over 2,100 years but said be in Congress as he has "not given up on the dream of an Israel that can live in peace with its neighbors."
The office of Netanyahu was contacted by Newsweek for comment on Wednesday outside of regular office hours.
Vice president Kamala Harris, who since Joe Biden announced he won't run again in November has become her party's presumptive 2024 presidential candidate, reportedly declined to preside over the Senate chamber during Netanyahu's address.
Senator Richard Durbin.
Senator Jeff Merkley
Senator Bernie Sanders
Senator Chris Van Hollen
Senator Tim Kaine
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Rep. Sara Jacobs
Representative Sara Jacobs
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Rep. Ilhan Omar
Rep. Robert Garcia
Rep. Ami Bera
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost
Rep. Jim Clyburn.
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below is the 'useful idiots' quote
----------------------------------------------------When the Tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting and funding you, you have officially become Iran’s useful idiots.
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Kinda like Trump is a threat to Merkin democracy...
[NEWARAB] Top Israeli defence and security former officials
Who? Name names, or shut up.
have written a damning letter in which they called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an "existential threat" to Israel and warned that his approach to 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... war is harming US interests.
How many of them belong to whatever the Israeli Labour Party currently calls itself, or other parties of the Left? How many of them are on the US State Department or private Progessive donor/foundation payrolls?
More than 30 Israeli establishment figures, including former military and intelligence chiefs, And if you can't trust more than thirty establishment figures, who can you trust?
government ministers, academics and business executives, said they had "grave concerns" that Netanyahu’s visit to the United States could damage joint objectives, according to a recently disclosed letter. ... signed by fifty one (51) former intel chiefs of one vintage or another...
The letter, dated Tuesday and aired in Israeli media, was addressed to US congressional leaders House Speaker Mike Johnson, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, majority leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 48.63496 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... and minority leader Mitch McConnell.
The Israeli officials said that Netanyahu was prioritising his own "political survivability over our shared interests" and said that Congress would be hosting a leader "without a mandate".
The letter came as Netanyahu was due to address Congress in Washington on Wednesday and meet with President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... on Thursday to shore up support for Israel's indiscriminate war on Gaza offensive and score political points at home.
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Whatever was in the 'damning letter', I don't see anything about it in today's Israeli media. There was some sort of 'letter' written in May but the exact content wasn't made public (or at least I couldn't find that either).
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That’s ok. Neither does Hamas. And at least Israel wants a real peace treaty — all Hamas wants is a hudna after Israel surrenders.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... bigwigSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... has said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech addressing the US Congress shows he does not want to conclude a 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... ceasefire deal.
"Netanyahu’s speech was full of lies and it will not succeed in covering up for the failure and defeat in the face of the resistance, [nor will it] cover up for the crimes of the war of genocide his army is committing against the people of Gaza," Zuhri told Rooters.
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When you have an Enemy sworn to the death of all Jewish people.
A long History that shows not one Peace agreement honored for more than the time needed to rebuild and plan the next attack
An Enemy that attacks mainly civilians and not Gov or Military sites.
Terrorists that videotape Murders, Rapes, kidnapping, torturing and more.
Terrorists that who have dug a 100+ miles of tunnels that even an Iranian Nuke could be snuck in by.
That are supported and hidden by supporters and the Palestinian Gov.
Then, the only viable solution left, becomes the Total elimination of such an enemy.
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
