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| UK's Cameron to say Magna Carta underpins human rights reform | | Monday, June 15, 2015 2:34 AM | |
| | By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Monday that the principles of liberty, justice and democracy enshrined in the Magna Carta underpin his plan to overhaul human rights laws and reduce the influence of Europe. In a speech marking 800 years since England's King John signed the charter that curbed the powers of the crown and laid the foundation for modern freedoms, Cameron will say the reputation of human rights legislation needs to be restored. "For centuries (Magna Carta) has been quoted to help promote human rights and alleviate suffering all around the world," he will say, according to a release of his speech. |
| Fear, guilt stops UK forced brides speaking out despite landmark case | | Monday, June 15, 2015 2:28 AM | |
| | By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The assignment set by her English teacher was to write about the worst day of her life, so 15-year-old Aisha Elahi did just that. At 24, he drove a flashy red car and came from the same conservative, Asian Muslim community in which Elahi was raised in the north of England. When her parents were called to the school and told of the attack, Elahi's mother sobbed but her father was silent, his eyes fixed to the floor. |
| Calls grow for inquiry into alleged Australian people-smuggler payments | | Monday, June 15, 2015 2:22 AM | |
| | By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Calls grew on Monday for an inquiry into reports that Australian officials paid people-smugglers bound for Australia thousands of dollars to turn their boat back to Indonesia, with Jakarta and the United Nations also expressing serious concern. Australia has vowed to stop asylum-seekers reaching its shores, turning boats back to Indonesia when it can and sending asylum-seekers for long-term detention in camps in impoverished South Pacific nations Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton have both denied reports of payment to the smugglers but Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declined to comment, citing operational security. |
| Eight Tunisian workers kidnapped in Libya - state radio | | | Eight Tunisian citizens working in Libya's capital Tripoli have been kidnapped not far from the city, a local politician told Tunisian state radio on Sunday, two days after gunmen snatched 10 staff from the Tunisian consulate. Libya is in turmoil, with two rival governments and their armed factions battling for control. "Eight young Tunisians were kidnapped... close to Tripoli," local lawmaker Hussein Yahyaoui told state Tataouin Radio. |
| Egypt prosecutor refers 58 Brotherhood supporters to military prosecution | | | Egypt's public prosecutor on Sunday referred the case of 58 suspected Muslim Brotherhood supporters accused of committing "terrorist acts" to the military prosecutor, a step that could lead to a military trial even though they are civilians. Thousands of Islamists have been jailed and hundreds sentenced to death since the government launched a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, saying they pose a threat to Egypt's national security. "Public Prosecutor Hesham Barakat ordered the referral of 58 defendants belonging to the Magholoon (Anonymous) group ..., who committed terrorist acts within Giza province from August 2013 until October 2014, to the military public prosecutor," the statement said. |
| South Africa court bars indicted Sudan leader from leaving | |  By Ed Cropley and Joe Brock JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African judge barred Sudan's indicted president from leaving the country on Sunday, in a deepening rift between Africa and the West over what Pretoria called anti-poor country bias in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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| 18 migrants found dead in Niger's desert, IOM says | | | The bodies of 18 west African migrants hoping to reach Europe have been found in the Sahara desert near Arlit in Niger, the International Organization for Migration said on Sunday. The discovery of the group offers a rare glimpse of what migration experts say is a hidden tragedy in the Sahara. "This case is indicative of the difficulties of these journeys, even before reaching the boats in Libya," Giuseppe Loprete, the head of IOM in Niger, said in emailed comments. |
| South African court extends order to stop Sudanese leader leaving | |  A South African court extended an order on Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country until it made a final decision on calls for his arrest on a warrant from the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Judge Hans Fabricuis postponed the hearing until 0930 GMT on Monday and urged the South African government to take "all necessary steps" to prevent Bashir, who is in Johannesburg for an African Union summit, leaving the country.
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| Israeli cabinet backs bill to force-feed jailed Palestinians on hunger strike | |  Israel's cabinet approved on Sunday a proposed law that would enable authorities to force-feed Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike, a practice opposed by the country's medical association. Israel has long been concerned that hunger strikes by Palestinians in its jails could end in death and trigger waves of protests in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who sponsored the bill, said the cabinet's support for the legislation would allow him to re-submit it to parliament for two final votes in the near future.
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