Yahoo News UK reports that Uganda said on Friday it would deport a U.S. freelance journalist arrested while filming opposition activists clashing with police in Kampala, accusing him of working in Uganda illegally. Authorities have recently stepped up a crackdown on independent media at a time of growing opposition to President Yoweri Museveni’s government, which critics say has become corrupt and authoritarian. Read article
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As reported by Sudantribune.com, police in the border town of Amuru in northern Uganda on Saturday arrested a South Sudanese national for allegedly stealing a motorcycle. Emmanuel Ondoka was arrested in Olegu, a bursting trading centre on the Uganda side of the border between Uganda and South Sudan. Read Article
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Ynetnews.com reported that, an indictment was filed with the Tel Aviv District Court against a 24-year-old Sudanese man for the rape and robbery of a disabled woman in her home. Read Article
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Al Jazeera reports that a Norwegian woman has spoken out about the 16-month prison sentence she received in Dubai after reporting a rape incident to police in March this year. Marte Deborah Dalelv was visiting Dubai on a business trip from Qatar, where she worked as a decorator, when she was raped. The 25-year-old reported […]
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CNN reports that Panamanian authorities on Tuesday were examining mysterious military equipment found aboard a ship headed from Cuba to North Korea, officials said. Few details of the confrontation were available, but the ship’s North Korean crew of 35 resisted arrest, said Panama’s security minister, Jose Raul Mulino. He described it as “violent,” saying that […]
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As reported by Gulfnews.com, Saudi Arabia has deported several Syrian doctors after it said they raised funds for the regime of President Bashar Al Assad. “The decision to expel them was taken to put an end to their activities after they were found guilty of raising funds allegedly to support the Syrian revolution,” sources told […]
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CNN reports that a woman identified as a Saudi Arabian princess has been accused of holding a domestic servant against her will at her condominium in Irvine, California. Meshael Alayban, 42, faces one felony count of human trafficking. Court details released Thursday say Alayban is one of the wives of Saudi Prince Abdulrahman bin Nasser […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that Malaysian immigration authorities should reverse their decision to deny entry Wednesday to a journalist critical of the provincial Sarawak government, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Clare Rewcastle Brown, who is based in the United Kingdom, flew to Kuching in southeast Malaysia but was served a “notice […]
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Bernama.com reports that a woman journalist from Germany and her colleague, who arrived in India to report the agitation against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant near here, have been detained by the local police. The South Asian Correspondent of a German radio network and her male colleague were on their way to Idinthakarai, the hub of […]
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According to the Washington Post, the U.S.-funded Alhurra network said Thursday that one of its cameramen was interrogated and strip-searched by Israeli security men while covering a July 4 party at the U.S. ambassador’s residence near Tel Aviv. The Arab satellite channel had coordinated with the Israeli prime minister’s office to cover the event on […]
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