“Israeli” authorities have freed a prominent Palestinian prisoner, two weeks after reaching a release deal that ended his marathon 131-day hunger strike, a prisoner rights group has said.
Kayed Fasfous, 32, had remained in an “Israeli” hospital since ending his strike on November 23.
He was the symbolic figurehead of six hunger strikers protesting the “Israeli” entity’s controversial policy of “administrative detention”, which allows suspects to be held indefinitely without charge.
The entity has said the policy is necessary to keep dangerous suspects locked away without disclosing sensitive information that could expose valuable sources.
Palestinians and rights groups said the practice denies the right of due process, allowing the entity to hold prisoners for months or even years without seeing the evidence against them. The law is rarely applied to “Israelis”.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club, a group representing former and current prisoners, confirmed Fasfous…
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence to a former non commissioned officer standing trial for raping İpek Er, an 18-year-old Kurdish woman who was later driven to committing suicide, local media reported on Friday.
In the sixth and final hearing of his trial on Friday, former soldier Musa Orhan was given a suspended sentence of 10 years by the Siirt 1st High Criminal Court on conviction of sexual assault.
Since the sentence was suspended, Orhan wasn’t arrested but was rather placed under judicial supervision, Turkish media reports said.
Human Rights Association (İHD) co-chair and lawyer Eren Keskin on Friday condemned Turkish judiciary for letting Orhan walk free.
“İpek Er ended her life after the sexual assault she experienced. The attacker is free and most likely will.. not ‘serve’ the sentence he was given. This is a place where a uniform and a wolf sign are held as ‘superior’ to both domestic and international law,” Keskin tweeted, referring to a photo of Orhan released by the Turkish media showing him making a hand sign of the nazi Grey Wolves, representing a wolf’s head.
”Reminding the public that sergeant Musa Orhan abducted and raped İpek Er for 20 days and drove her into suicide last August in Batman province, social media users have also denounced the fact that Musa Orhan is again free and criticized the policy of impunity in the country”.. Jin News.
The Anhui Chinese Alligator National Nature Reserve, the world’s largest breeding and research centre for the species, will be sheltering the alligators to help them through the cold winter months.
Yangtze alligators, also known as Chinese alligators, are native to the rich wetlands along the mid and downstream of the Yangtze River. This ancient and fragile animal is among the rarest reptiles in the world. With a wild population of less than 200, it is listed as “critically endangered” by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is also under national first-class protection under Chinese law.
It is the only member of the eight species in the Alligatoridae family to exist outside of the Americas. Chinese alligators can live up to 70 years in human care, and can reproduce into their 50s.
120 captive-bred adult Yangtze alligators were released to nature at the Anhui Yangtze Alligator National Nature Reserve in east China, June 3, 2019. (Photo/China News Service)
In historical times, the Chinese alligator was found in the extensive lakes and marshlands of the middle-lower Yangtze River region and along the river from Shanghai to Jianling City in the Hubei Province. Today it is limited to the lower Yangtze, primarily in the Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in eastern China.
Marshlands, ponds, lakes, reservoirs, river backwater canals, rice paddies and irrigation networks provide suitable habitat. It is native to slow-moving freshwater areas of the lower Yangtze River in China where it eats snails, crustaceans, insects, fish, young waterfowl and rodents.
The Chinese alligator differs from its American counterpart in subtle ways. It’s smaller, the head is more robust and its snout is slightly upturned. The eyelids of the Chinese alligator have a bony plate that is missing in the American alligator. The American alligator also lacks the bony belly plates, or osteoderms, of the Chinese alligator. Chinese alligators usually grow to about 1.5 meters. The largest Chinese alligator measured in recent times was about half the size of the largest living American alligators. Some may weigh up to 38.5 kilograms; however, most weigh less than 23 kilograms.
The species digs extensive earthen tunnels with multiple chambers, entrances and pools. Largely nocturnal because of human persecution, they stay in their tunnels much of the day when humans are in the vicinity as well as during cool weather and winter months.
The Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains and flows 6,300 km in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea.
Richard Johnson (Jamaica Observer) writes, “Fresh on the heels of his critically acclaimed film King Richard, director Reinaldo Marcus Green is speaking about his next film project — the Bob Marley biopic.” [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
The director has indicated that the film, which is currently in pre-production, will radiate from the 1976 assassination attempt on Marley at his 56 Hope Road base in St Andrew, the resulting exile in London and the recording of the album Exodus during that period.
“Our film starts in ’76 and really it’s about the making of Exodus,” Green told the online news outlet collider.com. “That would indeed be the perfect window to look at Bob Marley’s life, in a period where the artist is forced to reflect upon his roots and the international reach of his love message to humanity,” he continued.
On December 3, 1976, an assassination attempt was made on Marley’s life in which his chest was grazed and his arm was struck with a bullet. His wife Rita and Manager Don Taylor were also injured in the attack. Following this attack, Marley left Jamaica for London, where Exodus was recorded.
The tracks on this album comprise Natural Mystic, So Much Things to Say, Guiltiness, The Heathen, the title song Exodus, Jamming, Waiting in Vain, Turn Your Lights Down Low, Three Little Birds, and the global anthem One Love/People Get Ready.
During the last twenty months, we have been subjected to rules and restrictions that have adversely changed the lives of many in society. These measures have been carefully constructed by the government aided by the advice of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
Their advice has ensured that the fear and propaganda are of optimum effect to terrify the public into complying with their nonsensical, disproportionate, and more importantly harmful rules.[..…] By The Exposé on December 3, 2021 • ( 75 Comments )
As of 17 November, there had been 686 myocarditis and 578 pericarditis post-Covid injection reported to the UK Yellow Card system. In total there have been 18,354 cardiac disorders reported with 290 […]
Less than a fortnight into the opening performance of Covid the Deadly Serial Killer, every actor on the World Stage swore blind (an interesting term, that one) that Covid19 was the natural outcome of conjugal activities between bats, no known chemical formulation could stop the coming pandemic, vaccines were the only possible solution, and anyone suggesting anything different ought to be sectioned. Since then, the first assertion has come to be viewed as exceedingly dodgy, the second an unvarnished lie, and the third thus compromised.
By April 2020, it was clear from French research conducted by Didier Raoult that the HCQ + Zinc cocktail long proven to be safe and effective in the treatment of malaria was producing spectacular results among early-diagnosed C19 patients. Since that time, alarmist, badly written and vitriolic articles have been heaped on Raoult’s head.
Perhaps they’re right: perhaps British “researcher” and now Knight of…
Should Kyiv choose to pursue a military scenario in Donbas, it could prompt Russia to actively intervene there, and it is not ruled out that Moscow could eventually recognize independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk (LPR) People’s Republics, according to members of the Russian State Duma’s three largest factions and two committees interviewed by Interfax.
US shows off its anti ballistic missile destroyers (now based at Rota in Spain) in giant new Mediterranean War Games. Russia has just one elderly aircraft carrier for NATO’s 15, yet their new hypersonic weapons ‘make aircraft carriers obsolete’.
Estonia: Belgian F-16s take over NATO air mission as crisis in region worsens
Belgians enduring commitment to NATO’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission is demonstrated by the deployment of the F-16 fighter aircraft to take over the mission from Italy….
…”I am impressed to see how Air Policing in the three Baltic States has evolved and I applaud the constant expansion of NATO’s capabilities,” underlined the Belgian Air Force General [Harold van Pee].
“It goes without saying that your mission is essential for the control and defence of Estonia’s air space, but also to NATO’s air space integrity,” said Estonian Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence Mr. Kusti Salm. “We live in difficult times. There is an ongoing dangerous political gamble at NATO’s borders, not far from here…, ” Salm added. “Such a crisis cannot be resolved with artillery, ships or warplanes, but we will not submit to blackmail…,” he concluded.
“We will do as much as we can to help residents of Donbas in the event of active aggression. Some 700,000 citizens of Russia live there. This number may increase to around one million by the end of the year. It will be a million Russian citizens….And, naturally, we are not going to leave our citizens who live in Donbas in the lurch,” United Russia Party MP Viktor Vodolatsky, first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Committee on CIS Affairs and Compatriots, told Interfax.
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