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Discrimination against minorities (Arabic World)
International human rights organizations said that clashes between Libyan forces and armed tribesmen have led to the death of 11 people.
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Human rights violations (Arabic World)
Mohammed Nagi Ghuneim accused the chief of investigations at the Damietta police station, Tamer Nabil Abu Youssef, his deputy Mahmoud Ali al-Basyouni, and two detectives of beating him and his father and abusing them on the street in front of their home, located in Ard al-Barsh in the Damietta district. Ghuneim said in a complaint to the Damietta prosecutor’s office (no. 920/2008) that while his father was sitting in front of his workshop, located in his home, on November 4, officer Mahmoud al-Basyouni and some ten policemen asked him to come with them in a microbus. Finding no convincing reason to do so, he refused, at which point they began beating him.
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Internal Discrimination
This afternoon a racist assault took place in Tel Aviv when unknown assailants attacked and cursed an Israeli citizen from the Congo at the shopping center in the Kiryat Shalom area. His wife, who was a witness to the incident, said, “They brutally attacked him just because of the color of his skin.”
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Discrimination Against Palestinians
The American public chose for first place photos of a Palestinian boy shot by the IDF while photos showing the suffering of the residents of Sderot came in last place.
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Discrimination against women (Arabic World)
The deputy head of the Shura Council, Dr. Bandar Hajjar, asked members of the assembly yesterday to translate the King’s speech in the last meeting of the cabinet into projects for new systems while also breathing life into existing systems. The King discussed women’s issues and the need to preserve their rights and stop violence against them.
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Sectarian violence (Arabic World)
Iraqi security sources said Wednesday that gunmen broke into the home of a Christian family in Mosul, the biggest city in the Nineveh province, killed two sisters, and injured their mother. An officer in the Iraqi police who refused to give his name said, “At about 8 pm, gunmen broke into the home of a Christian family in the al-Qahira area (central Mosul) and shot at the family, killing two sisters and injuring their mother.”
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Human rights violations (Arabic World)
One woman was killed and another injured in Kom al-Muminin after bulldozers with the city of Quft demolished a building on top of them.
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Human rights violations (Arabic World)
Youssef Ashmawi, an Egyptian programming engineer, disappeared in mysterious circumstances on Saudi territory three months ago. “My son went to Saudi Arabia in October 2007 to work for the Yanabia Group,” his father said.
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Discrimination Against Arabs 48
On the 52nd anniversary of the Kafr Qassem massacre, this morning MK Ibrahim Sarsour (Raam-Taal) said that “the blood of the dead will remain warm until Israel admits its full responsibility for the massacre. The blood of these people is like the blood of the dead massacred on Land Day in 1976 and October 2000.”
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Discrimination Against Arabs 48
A wave of anger swept the Arab community following the High Court of Justice decision to allow a march by the Jewish National Front in Umm al-Fahm. Mohammad Barakeh, the chair of the Hadash Party, said that with this ruling the High Court of Justice had become a partner to the crime.
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