Human Rights Glance
War crimes files revealing early evidence of Holocaust death camps that was smuggled out of eastern Europe are among tens of thousands of files to be made public for the first time this week.
The once-inaccessible archive of the UN war crimes commission, dating back to 1943, is being opened by the Wiener Library in London with a catalogue that can be searched online.
Opening of UN files on Holocaust will 'rewrite chapters of history'
Human Rights Watch: U.S. airstrikes hit Syrian mosque
A report released Tuesday said the United States bombed a Syrian mosque in an airstrike last month, which the U.S. military had denied.
The Human Rights Watch report on the March 16 attack on Omar Ibn al-Khatab Mosqu suggests the United States failed to take "all feasible precautions" to avoid civilian casualties.
The U.S. military said it carried out a March 16 airstrike on a building where al-Qaida militants were meeting, not on a mosque next door where activists said 46 civilians were killed in a bombing.
Israeli prisons brace for mass Palestinian hunger strike
As over a thousand Palestinians held in Israeli prisons prepared to begin a mass hunger strike called by an imprisoned senior Fatah terror chief, Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Sunday that the strike is really about internal Palestinian politics and not an alleged dispute over prison conditions.
The hunger strike initiated by jailed Fatah official Marwan Barghouti is expected to start Monday – to coincide with Palestinian “Prisoners Day,” an annual event held in solidarity with the more than 6,000 Palestinian security prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails. Barghouti is currently serving five life sentences for his role in murderous terror attacks during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s.
Palestinians in Europe unify around messages of hope
The Palestinians in Europe conference convened this week for their 15th annual gathering in the Netherlands' second largest city, Rotterdam. The event brought together thousands of Palestinians under the slogan "100 years on, a victorious nation and unbreakable determination".
Saturday's conference coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which the British government pledged its support for a Jewish national home in Palestine, at the expense of the Palestinian indigenous population.
Report: Gay men detained, tortured in 'concentration camps' in Chechnya
In early April, Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published a story regarding gay men being detained, tortured, and sometimes killed in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
The article claims that over 100 homosexual men in the "traditionally conservative Muslim society" had been rounded up and placed in a newly established and secret prison.
A man identified as one of the individuals held there said he was a victim of violence, which was used in an attempt to get him to reveal the identities of other gay men
TVNL Comment: Human Rights mean very little to much of the world. Will Trump stand up for the persecuted gay community throught the world? Don't hold your breath.
Famed NYC bakery's immigrant workers defy Trump
Thirty-one employees of the Tom Cat Bakery also could be deported if they don't prove by April 21 that they're in the country legally.
The mostly Spanish-speaking workers and about 100 supporters rallied outside Trump Tower to protest what they called the Trump administration's "bullying."
Trump’s Policy May Send Reporter Back to Mexico, Where He Risks Being Killed
A Mexican journalist who was beaten by the country’s federal police for his reporting has been denied asylum in the United States as a result of Trump administration policy and faces deportation back to Mexico.
Martin Mendez Pineda, 25, is currently incarcerated in an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement holding facility in El Paso, Texas. Pineda met a U.S. lawyer at the El Paso border crossing on Feb. 5 and turned himself over to ICE seeking asylum. Pineda underwent a “credible fear” interview with Citizenship and Immigration Services who deemed his life would be in danger if he returned to Mexico, according to Pineda’s attorney, Carlos Spector.
Yet ICE denied Pineda parole, and instead of asylum he now waits for a court hearing where deportation proceedings will begin, Spector said.
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