Iraqi forces find mass grave containing 25 ISIS victims inside school in Fallujah after seizing city back from the terror group

Daily Mail, a daily from the UK, reported yesterday that a mass grave containing the human remains of 25 ISIS victims has been discovered in a school in war-torn Fallujah, Iraq. The city was recaptured in the end of May after brutal fighting between Iraqi forces and the ISIS. The terror group fled leaving behind a broken city of bomb-rigged buildings and empty streets. Iraqi forces searched buildings and found the bones that show traces of gunfire amid fears the victims were all executed by extremists. A state official said the mass grave contained skeletal remains of 25 persons who were executed by ISIS during its control on the city. According to Daily Mail, Only scattered signs of ISIS’s self-declared ‘caliphate’ remain in the city, that was seized by anti-government fighters in…

Security forces disperse protest of families of enforced disappearance cases

Daily News Egypt reported on 26 July that security forces dispersed on Monday a rally of families of enforced disappearance victims in front of the state-funded National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), according to the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI). Security forces harassed a number of journalists assigned to cover the rally and briefly detained nine of them, forcing them to delete all photos they captured of the rally, ANHRI reported. The nine journalists were released after the security forces verified their identities. http://bit.ly/2acHzEw

Transitional justice: CIEDP says it has screened 60pc of total plaints

The Kathmandupost reported on 28 July that the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) has screened 1,800 of the 2,780 complaints that the commission has received till date. Of them, the commission has forwarded 200 complaints for the second phase of investigation….

Spain approves exhumation in sensitive civil war Valley of the Fallen tomb

Agencia EFE, a Spanish news agency, reported yesterday that Spain has given the green light to exhume two bodies of founding members of the local branch of an anarchist union who were buried within the fascist-era monument called the Valley of the Fallen. Two brothers are believed to have been executed without a trial by pro-Franco forces early in the 1936-39 civil war and dumped in a mass grave. The bodies were later transferred without the family’s consent to the vast memorial north of Madrid where Franco, whom the brothers had opposed, was later buried. The District Court’s authorization for the exhumation recognized the “right to a dignified burial” and the exhumation is likely to reopen a debate about the fate of thousands of civil war victims. http://bit.ly/29YKWAp

Malaysian NGOs demand government action on human trafficking

Benar News, a daily…

When a migrant’s desperate journey becomes a deadly journey

The PBS NewsHour, a daily from the US, carried a story yesterday about the last week’s disaster when 22 bodies of migrants were recovered off the Libyan coast. This was witnessed and recorded by the PBS NewsHour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant who spent two weeks on board a rescue ship Aquarius that is jointly operated by Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee. According to the PBS NewsHour, the identities of all but one of the migrants whose bodies were found last week are unknown, and they will be buried in an unmarked grave. The story represents a correspondence between Mr Brabant and the victims, rescuers and doctors who took part in this disastrous accident. During his talk with the representatives of Doctors Without Borders, Mr Brabant explained that the ICMP is an organization that has the personnel, the technology and the…

Migration

Reuters reported on the 2 June that a group of 113 mostly Afghan migrants had landed on Crete, the first major arrival on the island since the migrant crisis began. Also on 2 June Thelocal.de reported that Germany expects up to 100,000 undocumented migrants to leave the country in 2016. “If the current trend continues then we will reach a total of between 90,000 and 100,000 deportations and voluntary returns,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters. Alarabiya.ne reported on 6 June that 31 migrants who survived when their boat sank off Crete had arrived in Egypt on Monday along with the bodies of nine people who died. PBS Newshour reported on 7 June that the authorities in Sicily have uncovered a $4 billion fraud scheme involving a reception center for migrants. On 7…