As many predicted, the Israeli attacks on Muslim worshippers has provoked a rocket attack from Gaza which has given Israel an excuse to pound Gaza with airstrikes:
The State Investigation Agency has threatened the author of a 2011 opinion piece favoring Kashmiri independence with “up to seven years imprisonment”:
- Indian Authorities Raid The Kashmir Walla, Arrest Contributor over 2011 Article (Committee to Protect Journalists)
“The United States has cautioned that it would step up pressure on countries that fail to sanction Russia but has yet to single out Israel”:
- Israel’s Ukraine Conundrum May Have Implications for Gulf States (Middle East Soccer / Substack)
Such rulings are rare in a land where “judges and courts have often delayed decisions in lynching cases out of fear of retribution”:
An RSS supporter declaims, “They are only leaving the villages right now, there will soon be a day when they leave the nation. … We will now kill them”:
- Inspired by ‘Kashmir Files’, Hindutva Workers Threaten to Remove Muslims From Roorkee Village (The Wire)
One scene in the new movie “offers a philosophical dialogue of rare and giddy delight—about law and obedience and their effect on the inner life”:
“Besides the spiritual deprivation, the closure severely dented the country’s gross domestic product and pinched traders … who depended on the pilgrims”:
- As COVID-19 Shutdown Lifts, Mecca’s Pilgrims Bring Islam’s Holiest City Back to Life (Religion News Service)
Prisoners include 530 held without charge or trial, 160 children, 32 women, 549 serving life sentences, and 499 are serving a sentence exceeding 20 years”:
“Any use of subsidized electricity intended for households, industrial, agricultural, and commercial subscribers for mining cryptocurrency is prohibited”:
- New Penalties for Illegal Cryptocurrency Mining in Iran (Bitcoin.com)
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