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‘Outrageous’ arson attack forces UNRWA to temporarily shutter East Jerusalem compound

adminMay 9, 2024September 20, 202403 mins

Posting on social media, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said “Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter” on Thursday evening. UNRWA personnel and staff from other UN agencies were inside the compound at the time. “Our director with the help of other staff had to put out the fire themselves as it took the Israeli fire extinguishers and police a while…

USA: Rights experts slam ‘outrageous’ execution of inmate by nitrogen gas suffocation

adminJanuary 30, 2024September 18, 202405 mins

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was executed in the southern state of Alabama on 25 January. He had been convicted of murder in 1988. “Alabama’s use of Kenneth Smith as a human guinea pig to test a new method of execution amounted to unethical human experimentation and was nothing short of State-sanctioned torture,” the experts said…