On 16 May, Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan national indicted on multiple charges of genocide, was arrested by French authorities just outside of Paris. 23 years ago, Kabuga was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda but then fled the country and has been at large ever since. Kabuga, 84, […]
Earlier this week, Aden, the “interim seat of the Saudi-backed government”, was declared an “infested city”, reports Reuters. The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that there is “full-blown transmission of the virus in Yemen, with the disease spreading undetected among a population with some of the lowest levels of immunity […]
It has emerged that Shady Habash, an Egyptian artist and filmmaker, died in maximum security Tora prison in Egypt on 3 May. According to the New York Times, Habash was imprisoned in 2018 after he directed the music video accompanying “Balaha,” a song by Egyptian musician Ramy Essam. The song […]
On 27 April, Saudi Arabia’s state-backed Human Rights Commission issued a statement signaling an end to the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by minors. According to the BBC, this announcement supported the earlier decree by King Salman and came two days after Saudi Arabia banned discretionary flogging. […]
Iran launched its first successful military satellite midday local time on April 22. According to the New York Times, the satellite, Noor, was launched with the aid of a messenger satellite carrier, a hitherto unheard of technology in Iran. This development comes at a time in which Iran wrestles with […]
Yemen has been experiencing a tenuous period of peace over the past week. According to the BBC, last Thursday the Houthi rebels and Saudi army implemented a two-week long ceasefire. This ceasefire, heralding the first cessation of hostilities since the beginning of Yemen’s civil war in 2014, was negotiated in […]
