Human Rights

NOVANEWS   Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991. Nearly two decades later, Davis remains on death row – even though the case against him has fallen apart. On March 28, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Troy Davis' appeals and set the stage for him to possibly face a fourth execution date. An execution date is inevitable. Execution is NOT. » Learn more about Troy Davis Here's the latest news on Troy Davis: Laura_Moye lauramoye "Letter from Westminster" (note on the loss of Virginia Davis)http://t.co/rbQUQyv3 days ago · reply · retweet · favorite #TroyDavis ' mother, Virginia, passed away last Tues; buried this Mon. She was collecting petitions 2 days prior: http://bit.ly/troypetiti...6 days ago · reply · retweet · favorite ...

RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 April 2011 On 20 and 21 April 2011, during the Jewish Passover holiday, the Israeli military closed all of the gates on the east side of the Old City souq in Al Khalil/Hebron.  This severely restricted the movement of Palestinian residents in that area.  One of those affected was Yusuf. Yusuf is five years old.  He attends the kindergarten just across the landing from the CPT women’s apartment.  He’s a bright little boy, who interprets in sign language for his mother, who is deaf.  He has congenital physical difficulties: he has no left arm and one leg is significantly shorter than the other. On 20 April two CPTers happened to meet up with Yusuf and his kindergarten teacher as she took him home after class.  The teacher took him first to one gate.  It was ...

NOVANEWS       Abeer Skafe,10,died today after a nervous breakdown&complete paralysis for Zio-Nazi denying her permission to see imprisoned father. In a unique case that highlights the sense of shock and the strain the occupation brings to bear on ordinary people, psychological trauma has been blamed for a Palestinian girl’slife-threatening coma after she was prevented by Nazi authorities from hugging her father when she went to visit him in prison where he is serving a life term. Nazi police officers in charge of the prison where Abeer Eskafi’s father, Yousuf, is serving his sentence,  did not allow the 10-year-old to go over to the prisoners’ side of a meeting room where visitors can meet inmates when she expressed a wish to hug her father. The little girl was so h...

NOVANEWS      WATCH: Israeli Terrorist Execute 13 year old palestinian girl crescentandcross Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-1KC watch?v=9Y0Mi9UztOk  

NOVANEWS   Palestinian Information Center   The Zio-Nazi occupation forces (ZNOF) on Thursday morning violently stormed Tareq Ibn Ziyad school in the Old City of Al-Khalil and terrorized its students and teachers. Eyewitnesses said the (ZNOF) encircled the school, knocked down its main gate before spreading in its courtyard. They also broke into classrooms in a violent way forcing students and teachers to gather in the school yard. The (ZNOF) have not given an explanation for such savage act. In another incident, the (ZNOF) and Zio-Nazi settlers intensified their attacks against Palestinian citizens and their property in Al-Khalil city on the occasion of their purim holiday. The (ZNOF) stormed many villages and towns in Al-Khalil city during this Jewish occasion and erect...

NOVANEWS ___________________________________________________________________________________________ “  Our situation is very difficult in Bahrain, they kill innocent people  near their own houses. Schools, shops, work -  all closed, we cannot go out at all. They attack the villages and Shiaa’s areas and terrorise them, confronting the unarmed people with their guns and bullets. The Saudis army to Bahrain is acting inhumane, they blocked the Hospital the only in Bahrain and  attacked the doctors, nurses, ambulances stopping them from treating the injured people. Just now I received a message that a nurse is killed, shot by 2 bullets in her neck while she was on her way to the hospital. Please I need your help as a journalist to spread that out to your community everybody here asking for ...

NOVANEWS Jameela Oberman interviews Amnesty International's Crisis Response & Country Priorities Manager about the situation in the West Bank Amnesty International’s Kristyan Benedict was visiting Hebron in the West Bank, when he saw an Israeli army patrol approaching as some Palestinians were walking down the street. One of the soldiers turned to a woman in the group and hissed: ‘Sharmuta’, which means bitch in Arabic. The soldier looked at the Palestinian men accompanying her – challenging them to do something about the insult, he had a gun and 10 of his co-soldiers with him. That time they walked away. This kind of incident is just a microcosm of the Israeli occupation that Amnesty International’s Kristyan Benedict, 36, witnessed earlier this year with his own eyes and caught on ...

NOVANEWS   Two Zio-Nazi settlers run as they prepare to attack Palestinian homes in the village of Burin in the West Bank on Tuesday. Five Palestinians, including two photojournalists, have been injured in clashes with Zio-Nazi settlers in the northern West Bank.   Residents of the Har Brakha illegal Zionist settlement threw stones at houses in the nearby Palestinian village of Burin, and young Palestinians threw stones back at them on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent said. Zio-Nazi  soldiers then intervened and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the Palestinians. A local photojournalist had his nose broken and another was slightly hurt. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official responsible for the settlement file in the northern West Bank, said tha...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross   Ma’an news TUBAS (Ma’an) — “Father, I miss you so much and it’s been so long and you are away we miss hugging you, we miss the smell of your jacket in the house, and the smell of your cologne. I pray to God that you will be released one day and come back to us. I dream about you often,” Ahmad Atef Daraghmeh, 11, wrote. One of dozens of children from the small municipality of Tubas with a parent incarcerated in an Israeli jail or military detention center, Ahmad joined his peers in the Tubas Prisoners Center on Sunday, the day which is marked as Prisoners Day, and for the first time wrote to his father. The letters children wrote will be given to lawyers who regularly visit the nearly 30 detention centers where Palestinian prisoners are held, he...

NOVANEWS   Securing the Release of Detained Human Rights Activists in Egypt Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square after the announcement of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in Cairo on February 11, 2011. © 2011 Reuters RELATED MATERIALS: Live Updates from Egypt My 36 Hours in Egyptian Captivity RELATED AUDIO: Heba Morayef reports from Tahrir Square, where the crowd is celebrating after the announcement that President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. Heba Morayef describes how she heard the news that Mubarak was stepping down. RELATED VIDEOS: Egypt Prison Break A collaborative, rapid response from Human Rights Watch and our partners on the ground helped secure the releas...