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Freedom of Expression (Arabic World)
The Syrian Human Rights Committee has learned from an informed source in Aleppo that a former detainee, engineer Abd al-Sattar Qattan, 68, has died while undergoing dialysis in a hospital. Qattan spent more than 20 years in prison over three separate periods because of his opinions and beliefs. He was later denied permission to travel abroad for the medical treatment he desperately needed.
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Discrimination against children (Arabic World)
A Palestinian was arrested who kept his children locked up for 20 years in an abandoned cave in Hebron, located in the southern West Bank, according to the Palestinian police on August 27, 2008.
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Crimes of the occupation army
Border Guard soldier filmed their friends as they abused Palestinians in East Jerusalem, as shown by video footage filmed with a cell phone. The video, apparently filmed by a Border Guard soldier, reached Yesh Din today after the photographer evidently lost his phone, thus exposing the grave practices.
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Discrimination Against Islam
During a press conference in Jerusalem, representatives of the PA and the Islamist movement in Israel said that the Western Wall area falls under Muslim control and Israel is prohibited from any construction.
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Crimes of the occupation army
The Btselem human rights group filed a complaint with the military prosecutor’s office asking them to order the military police to investigate an incident that took place about ten days ago in which a tear gas canister was thrown at a 13-year-old boy from Jalzon, near Ramallah, causing direct injuries.
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Discrimination Against Palestinians
A cancer patient from the Gaza Strip who is in critical condition did not receive a permit from the Shin Bet to enter Israel for treatment. Initially the Shin Bet denied Ahmed Abu Shawish entry to Israel but after Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) asked that he be allowed to receive urgent treatment at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, the Shin Bet made the permit conditional on him undergoing questioning. Abu Shawish’s health did not allow him to answer the summons for questioning and now he is awaiting his fate.
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Discrimination against women (Arabic World)
The public prosecutor in the province of Qena, located in Upper Egypt, released Salim Mohammed Salim Khalil, a 70-year-old retiree, and his brother, Mohammed, a school principal, who are charged with locking up their sister, Sakina, for five years in their basement hoping to get her LE9,000 inheritance. She accused them of illegally detaining her and abuse.
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Discrimination against minorities (Arabic World)
Sweden’s anti-discrimination agency said Tuesday it was investigating a Swedish bank that blocks customers with certain foreign names from using routine banking services.
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Discrimination against children (Arabic World)
 A man filed a complaint with the director of Daqahliya security accusing a police officer of arresting his infant child and detaining him at the station for five hours.
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Religious discrimination (Arabic World)
A Coptic man beat his wife, causing injures and bruising all over her body, in an attempt to force her not to change her religion, after she repeatedly expressed a desire to convert to Islam.
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