{"id":84611,"date":"2021-08-09T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84611"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:05:04","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-9-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84611","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/9\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian poet Darren Tatour exposes the horrors she faced after being imprisoned for her poems in 2015 &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coremiddleeast.com\/decolonizing-the-mind-an-interview-with-palestinian-poet-dareen-tatour\/?fbclid=IwAR3G3SpKLZqjSFTyiD8S1iRCw8tNfMeRACsdSSTHjpawkc2ImBG_wzFuD4I\">Decolonizing the Mind: An Interview with Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Core Middle East)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while the winner of the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2012 Humanitarian Hero Award languished in an Israeli jail though Israel, having &#8220;no proof to back their charges&#8221; keep &#8220;offering him release of jail in return for his acceptance of guilt&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/daoudkuttab.medium.com\/palestinian-humanitarian-hero-exposes-five-years-of-an-unfair-israeli-trial-8ffd8495e627\">Palestinian Humanitarian Hero Exposes Five Years of an Unfair Israeli Trial<\/a> (Daoud Kuttab)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Many Iranians, hundreds of thousands of whom have signed a petition opposing the new measures, have reason to worry: E-commerce through Instagram has opened doors even as the coronavirus has kept others closed&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/08\/07\/iran-instagram-pandemic-economy-ban\/\">Bill to Restrict Internet in Iran Could Threaten Pandemic-era Instagram Commerce Boom<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The IDF continues its policy of murder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/twilight-zone\/.premium.MAGAZINE-palestinian-plumber-shot-dead-by-israeli-troops-while-trying-to-fix-water-outage-1.10091362\">A Palestinian Plumber Was Shot Dead by Israeli Troops While Trying to Fix a Water Outage<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium.MAGAZINE-israeli-soldiers-kill-11-year-old-palestinian-his-brother-still-hears-the-shooting-1.10097613\">Israeli Soldiers Kill an 11-year-old Palestinian, and His Brother Still Hears the Shooting<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s secularization of social mores has been accompanied by repression &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2021\/country-chapters\/saudi-arabia\">of all political rights<\/a>, including freedom of expression, media, and assembly&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesmdorsey.substack.com\/p\/saudi-social-and-economic-change?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3MDEzODMyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozOTc0MzcwOCwiXyI6IlpDYVpNIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI4NDU1NjMyLCJleHAiOjE2Mjg0NTkyMzIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNDY4MjgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.2JxbcJ77cUgYM1s4r5CcasXbkgwyItDzpssOdSeTWXY\">Saudi Social And Economic Change Proves to Be a Delicate Balancing Act<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(James Dorsey)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A recent report reveals that Israel illegally arrested and imprisoned Palestinians in remote detention centers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/israelpalestinenews.org\/israel-secretly-kept-innocent-palestinians-remote-detention-centers\/\">Revealed: Israel Secretly Kept Innocent Palestinians in Remote Detention Centers<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Israel Palestine News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the Code of Hamurabi the world has taken step after step towards the establishment of freedom and equality through the rule of law. Now India has taken a huge slide backwards in Kashmir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/364323-the-evolution-of-human-rights-and-their-disregard-in-indian-occupied-kashmir\">The Evolution of Human Rights and Their Disregard in Indian-occupied Kashmir<\/a> (Geo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Taliban continue their rapid expansion, seizing two more provincial capitals including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the strategically important city of Kunduz and Taleqan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/08\/1025909600\/taliban-seizes-2-more-provincial-capitals-in-afghanistan\">The Taliban Has Seized 2 More Provincial Capitals In Afghanistan As U.S. Exit Nears<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian poet Darren Tatour exposes the horrors she faced after being imprisoned for her poems in 2015 &#8230; Decolonizing the Mind: An Interview with Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour\u00c2\u00a0(Core Middle East) &#8230; while the winner of the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2012 Humanitarian Hero Award languished in an Israeli jail though Israel, having &#8220;no proof to back their charges&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/158132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84611"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84611\/revisions\/84622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}