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Katherine Hearst

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Sep 4, 2026
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Katherine Hearst

    Egyptian detainees issue call for government to apply new caps to pretrial detention (opens the original)

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    Egyptian prisoners held in pretrial detention have called for the government to apply new statutory limits to their cases, which are set to be introduced next month. The new Criminal Procedure Code, adopted in November and set to take effect in October this year, promises to place limits on periods of pretrial detention. In a letter seen by MEE and addressed to the Egyptian government, the anonymous group said that they had been held in pretrial detention for “many years”, and that they welcomed

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Katherine Hearst

    UAE president pardons Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi (opens the original)

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    The president of the United Arab Emirates has pardoned Egyptian poet and high-profile activist Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who was facing a ten-year prison sentence in the country, Emirati media reported. According to the reports, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued the pardon on Friday after Qaradawi was convicted by the Cybercrime Circuit of the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal on 27 August, which handed him a 10-year custodial sentence and a fine of AED200,000 ($54,452). The dual E

  3. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Katherine Hearst

    Palestine Action activists to appeal terror sentencing (opens the original)

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    Four Palestine Action activists will appeal their sentencing by a UK court as terrorists for their role in a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory. In May, Charlotte ‘Lottie’ Head, Fatema Rajwani, Leona ‘Ellie’ Kamio and Samuel Corner were convicted by jurors of criminal damage charges for smashing up Israeli weapons - including quadcopter drones - in an Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in August 2024. In an unprecedented ruling in June, the presiding judge, Justice Johnson, determined that th

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Katherine Hearst

    'Secretive' UAE and Swiss-based firms found to be major crude suppliers to Israel, says report (opens the original)

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    Two little-known oil traders, Vitol and Heritage Petroleum FZCO, have emerged as two of the top suppliers of crude to Israel during its genocide in Gaza, according to a new report by Oil Change International (OCI) and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO). Together, the companies collectively exported approximately 22m barrels to Israel, representing 11 percent of the country’s total crude imports between October 2023 and June 2026, the report found. Despite a Turkish emba

  5. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Katherine Hearst

    'A very frightening time': US terror tag endangers UK Palestine Action activists, critics say (opens the original)

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    Washington's move to designate Palestine Action as a transnational terrorist organisation could place British activists associated with the group at heightened risk of surveillance and being frozen out of the financial system, campaigners warn. In a statement on its website, the US Department of the Treasury announced a slew of sanctions targeting “Violent Far-Left Terrorist Networks”, including Palestine Action and Masar Badil, a movement that advocates for an "alternative revolutionary path" f

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