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On 3 November 2009 the Saudi General Investigation Directorate (al-Mabaheth al-`Amma) of al-Ahsa arrested the Shia citizens Muneer Ali al-Hassawi and Ahmad Mohammad al-Isa, from Bani Maan town of Al-Ahsa. The citizens were arrested on accusations that they participated in the celebration of the celebration of the Birthday Anniversary of Imam Al-Mahdi (A.S.) last August . Al-Hassawi and al-Isa were sentenced to one week imprisonment and transported to the general prison of Al-Ahsa on orders of Al-Hasa governor ( Badr bin Muhammad bin Jalawi ) . It is worth to mention that the Saudi authorities arrested more than six young Shi’a citizens on charges of participation in religious activities in their areas . |
Daily Archives: November 5, 2009
Khazaei: Zionist regime has committed crimes against humanity
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Addressing the UN General Assembly Wednesday, he added that Goldstone’s report has endorsed serious negation of human rights and conspicuous violation of international norms by the Zionist regime in Qaza. Elsewhere in his remarks, he noted that Zionist regime’s attack on the Qaza Strip has left more than 1,400 dead and over 5,000 wounded. Of the dead, more than 300 were children and 115 women. Khazaei further noted that the Zionist regime has attacked residential areas on purpose, violating the basic fundamentals of human rights. Based on the fact-finding mission’s report, the Israelis targeted a mosque at prayer time, killing 15 prayers. Israeli fighters targeted non-military areas and killed families, he said, noting that the extensive use of phosphorous and cluster bombs by the Zionist regime is known for all. A United Nations inquiry, led by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone, detailed what investigators called Israeli actions “amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity,” during Israel’s winter offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza. The 575-page report by Goldstone and three other investigators asserts seven incidents in which Palestinian civilians were shot while leaving their homes, trying to run for safety or waving white flags. The report says Israel shelled a Gaza City house where soldiers had forced Palestinian civilians to assemble in. These attacks constituted war crimes, the report says. |
UN General Assembly: Goldstone report on Israel's crimes in Gaza on the agenda
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Goldstone report, authored following an international investigation into the war crimes committed during Israel’s military aggressions against the Palestinian population of Gaza Strip, is due to be examined Wednesday by the United Nations General Assembly. “UN General Assembly Chairman Ali Triki intends to held a plenary session meeting” Wednesday to consider the report, according to Triki’s spokesman. Arab countries have adopted and sent to the UN Assembly General a draft resolution approving the report named after South-African judge Richard Goldstone, chief of the UN Human Rights Council’s mission that has investigated Israel’s military aggressions against Gaza Strip. |
Iran; Over 2 tons of narcotics confiscated in Hormozgan
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Nine smugglers and bandits, too, were arrested in the course of those operations, according to the same report. In Bandar Abbas, the Intelligence officials’ exact amount of narcotic drugs’ confiscations during the days of the week has been 2,213 kilograms and two of the arrested smugglers have got wounded during the armed clashes with the intelligence officials, while the entire nine arrested hooligans have been handed to the judiciary officials and are waiting in prison for their trials at the province’s courts of justice.
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Iran Warns Saudi Arabia against Continued Fingerprinting of Pilgrims
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“If the Saudis continue fingerprinting Iranian pilgrims, we will retaliate and fingerprint them,” member of the parliament’s Planning and Budget Commission Ezatollah Yousefian announced today. “Pilgrims of Hajj are different from normal passengers and the move by Saudi Arabia is an indication of their inhospitality,” Yousefian noted. The lawmaker further called on the Iranian political authorities to take appropriate measures to remove the problems and barriers existing for the Iranians’ pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The first groups of the Iranian pilgrims who arrived in Medina during the last two days had to wait for a long time at the airport to be fingerprinted by the Saudi police. Iranian pilgrims complained earlier this year that they were discriminated against by Saudi authorities while on the Umrah, the smaller pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Iranians said at the time this treatment was usually reserved for criminals and terrorists. Tehran has shown strong reaction to the new rules set by the Saudi officials against Iranian pilgrims. The annual Hajj ritual is a momentous event in the Muslim calendar, attracting some two million visitors to Saudi Arabia every year. The four-week pilgrimage brings together Muslim worshippers from all corners of the globe. This year the Hajj is taking place in the last week of November.
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