Day: June 20, 2016

Torture Claims Threaten ETA Fugitive’s Extradition to Spain

The Swiss human rights organization ‘Augenauf’ is protesting the extradition of a woman suspected of membership of Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) on the grounds that she was tortured by Spanish authorities after her arrest in 1999.  43-year-old Nekane Txapartegi was apprehended by Swiss police in April after

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Bahrain Suspends Largest Shia Opposition Group, al-Wefaq

Bahrain suspended the country’s largest Shia opposition group on Tuesday, continuing the gulf kingdom’s relentless crackdown on political dissent since the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011. The Associated Press reports that the Justice and Islamic Affairs Ministry accused al-Wefaq National Islamic Society of creating “a new generation that carries the

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