Maan News Agency, May 31, 2010 (click here for Arabic) Two of a growing number of Israeli protesters at the port of Ashdod jumped into the sea Monday afternoon, calling for an end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and condemning the attack on the Freedom Flotilla. Reporting from Ashdod, Mya Guarnieri said police had stopped …
The Huffington Post, January 28, 2010 In Kuwait, the clock is ticking for a Filipina maid who faces execution. Jakatia Pawa, a Muslim from a southern province of the Philippines, was convicted of murdering her employer’s daughter in 2008 and was sentenced to death. But Pawa, 34, says that she is innocent. And her attorney, human …
The Huffington Post, January 21, 2010 After spending over a week in a small, windowless room in Ben Gurion International Airport, Jared Malsin, the Jewish American editor of a Palestinian news agency, was deported to New York yesterday. The move brought Malsin’s legal battle to gain reentry into Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to …
The Huffington Post, January 14, 2010 Jared Malsin, the editor of the English edition of Maan News Agency, has been detained by Israeli authorities. Malsin, a Jewish-American who lives and works in the West Bank, was picked up on Tuesday at Ben Gurion International Airport, as he and his partner returned from vacation in the Czech …