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Arab League Condemns Israeli Occupation Brutality against Palestinian Prisoners

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)
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Arab League Condemns Israeli Occupation Brutality against Palestinian Prisoners

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)

The Arab League has condemned in the strongest terms the violations, crimes, and brutal suppression policies of the Israeli occupation against Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
In a statement on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees, observed on August 3, the General Secretariat of the Arab League said that these policies are a direct result of the Israeli government's unilateral actions against the Palestinian people, amid the international community's silence.
The Cairo-based pan-Arab organization also called on the press and international human rights organizations to expose the Israeli occupation's violations and inhumane practices, which constitute blatant and flagrant breaches of international laws and norms. It urged the international community, the Red Cross, and human rights institutions to shoulder their responsibilities and work towards holding Israel, the occupying force, accountable for adhering to the Geneva Conventions concerning prisoners, SPA reported.
The Arab League also urged international justice institutions to break their silence, express strong positions, and take practical and serious steps regarding the revealed acts of brutal torture, collective punishment, and dehumanization inflicted upon Palestinian prisoners and detainees, underlining the need to compel Israel to end all forms of torture, inhumane treatment, and forced disappearances perpetrated against these prisoners and detainees.
It reiterated its solidarity and full support for Palestinian prisoners and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and their right to an independent state of their own with Jerusalem as its capital.

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UAE Uncovers Plan to Revive Muslim Brotherhood

The Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi (WAM)
The Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi (WAM)
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UAE Uncovers Plan to Revive Muslim Brotherhood

The Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi (WAM)
The Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi (WAM)

The United Arab Emirates uncovered plans to revive the Muslim Brotherhood within the country, according to a report published on Friday by the Emirati news agency, WAM.

“Investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution, under the supervision of the Attorney-General, have uncovered a new secret organization operating outside the country formed by fugitive members of the Reform Call Organization, which is classified as a terrorist organization within the country and was slated for dissolution in 2013,” the report said.

“The new organization aims to revive the previous group and pursue similar objectives,” it added.

The State Security Department has been monitoring fugitives from various emirates who were sentenced in absentia in 2013, the report noted.

“This surveillance revealed two groups of the organization’s members who convened abroad and recruited others to form a new organization,” it added.

Also, investigations revealed that they received funding from sources within the UAE and from other terrorist groups and organizations outside the country.

The investigations further revealed that the organization has established alliances with other terrorist groups to collaborate across media, economic, and educational sectors.

These efforts are intended to strengthen ties, secure funding, maintain the organization's presence, enhance protection mechanisms abroad, and achieve its objectives, the report said.

In one country, WAM said the group is associated with several fronts posing as charitable or intellectual organizations and television channels, the most notable being the Cordoba Foundation (TCF). Classified as a terrorist organization in the country since 2014, TCF presents itself as a Middle Eastern “think-tank” institution.

It said the group is led by Anas Altikriti, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood residing abroad, who played a significant role in organizing demonstrations in front of UAE embassies and international organizations.

WAM revealed that the fugitive members communicated in secret meetings via internet applications and through mutual visits between the two groups.

The confessions of an arrested member of the organization detailed the group’s structure and activities, and the roles of its members in threatening stability.

These activities include leading smear campaigns, promoting hate speech, questioning the state's achievements, spreading discord among the populace, financing terrorism, engaging in money laundering, and cooperating with foreign intelligence services to destabilize state security.

They also incited actions against official institutions, targeted the UAE on human rights issues, sought to weaken confidence in the government, and stirred public opinion through fake online pages and accounts created for this purpose.

Some members engaged directly with international human rights organizations, providing false information about state authorities to be used in negative reports against the UAE, the WAM report said.

A team from the Public Prosecution is currently conducting intensive investigations to verify details from the confessions of the arrested member and from the State Security Department's findings, it added.

The Public Prosecution is expected to release details of the terrorist organization and its crimes upon the completion of the probe.