“[T]he House Judiciary Committee passed a Republican-authored bill approvingly citing Hafez al-Assad’s 1980 crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood — which culminated in the 1982 Hama massacre, a mass killing of civilians that indirectly presaged the current civil war”:
A “Palestinian journalist who has being held for more than six months in administrative detention without charge or trial in an Israeli prison, ended a 94 day hunger strike …Â after Israel agreed not to renew his administrative detention order, which ends on May 21”:
- Palestinian Political Prisoner Mohammed al-Qeq Ends HungerStrike over as Israel Pledges May Release (Green Left Weekly)
What they feared Morsi would do, the Sisi regime does with impunity. And last week “an Egyptian military court ‘mistakenly’ sentenced a three-year-old boy to life in prison for murdering three people“: …
… yet “despite years of upheaval, a struggling economy, and increasing repression under … al-Sisi, Egypt’s start-up sector is thriving” as the movement to do business without “bribes and being close to government, and kickbacks” that started after Mubarak’s removal persists:
- Egypt’s Other Uprising: Start-up Companies Are Flourishing (Christian Science Monitor)
“The businessman was on a list published last month by the official Islamic Republic News Agency and the Tabnak website of four prisoners to be freed in a prisoner exchange with the United States. His name was later withdrawn from the list with no explanation”:
Friday’s polls for the parliament and the assembly of experts – its role is to choose the Islamic Republic’s clerical supreme leader – were extended for nearly six hours due to a turnout that was estimated to have been around 70% … likely [to] favour the reformist-moderate camp”:
“[T]he number of supporters from the interfaith community who lined up to shield them from taunts far outnumbered those who accused them of violence and terrorism”:
Researchers  find evidence that “[f]or centuries, Muslims and Christians co-existed in parts of Europe, lived side-by-side, worked together, and died together” and that Muslim rulers in southern France practiced “a kind of protection for the main religious faiths”:
- What the ‘Oldest’ Muslim Graves in Europe Can Tell Us About the Past (Washington Post)
- In Israel, Racism Is the Law (Information Clearing House)
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