Syrian doctor Hamza al-Kateab: ‘We had a joke that you were safer living on the front-line – it was never targeted but hospitals were’
We speak to Dr Hamza al-Kateab, who ran a hospital in Aleppo during the bombardment of the city.
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Category: Health and safety
health and safety
How Real Muslim Kids Think..What About Others?
AOC Questions Migrant Mother Whose Child Died in U.S. Detention
Saudi Arabia and Russia among 37 states backing China’s Xinjiang policy
How one website helps hundreds seek asylum
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How BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states, BBC
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Bosnia Marks Srebrenica Genocide Anniversary as More Victims Buried
….Lars Gunnar Wigemark, chief of the EU’s delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that mothers of Srebrenica victims had lived for 24 years now with the fact that their sons, husbands and fathers were systematically exterminated. “Srebrenica is a deep wound that is opened each time the responsibility for crimes committed is denied and perpetrators are glorified,” Wigemark said….more: balkaninsight.com
Why Time Seems to Speed Up as we Get Older
Ever wondered where the last year of your life went? Neuroscientist David Eagleman sheds some light on the time-bending power of your brain.
Nearly two dozen countries unite at UN to condemn China’s mass detention of one million Muslims for first time
…In an unprecedented letter ambassadors from 22 countries voiced their concerns about reports of unlawful detention in “large-scale places of detention, as well as widespread surveillance and restrictions, particularly targeting Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang”.more: the independent
CJ: Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees
CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom’s notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.
For several months, I have been holding regular conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a 20-year-old Rohingya Muslim asylum seeker who has been detained and separated from his parents in Saudi Arabia’s notorious Shumaisi detention centre since 2013.
“We would rather die now than be kept in here forever or sent to Myanmar or Bangladesh,” Thakin told me in early April when explaining why he and upwards of 1,000 Rohingya detainees had decided to launch a hunger strike in protest against their indefinite detention and threats by Saudi Arabia to deport them….MORE: bylinetimes.com
Zookeeper killed by tiger ‘may have been tired from night feeds’
A zookeeper mauled to death by a tiger may have been tired after helping with night feeds for a serval kitten, an inquest has heard. Rosa King suffered significant injuries and died at the scene following the attack by a Malayan male called Cicip at Hamerton Zoo Park, Cambridgeshire, two years ago.The hearing in Huntingdon heard the 33-year-old appeared to have been trying to leave the tiger enclosure after cleaning its viewing windows when she was killed…more: skynews
