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Spain: More than 140 dead as Spanair flight crashes at Madrid Barajas Airport
21-08-2008
Only 28 people managed to escape the burning wreck of a Spanair McDonnel Douglas MD82, after the plane aborted take off at Madrid’s Barajas airport today, and one of those is reported to have died on the way to hospital.

Weekly Report: on Israeli Human Rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
21-08-2008
31 Palestinian civilians, including 10 children, and three international human rights defenders, were injured by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank.

Palestine: 9 injured at a non- violent protest in Nil'in village
21-08-2008
Israeli army dispersed the weekly nonviolent protest in Nil'in village, located south of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday midday with gas, guns and grenades, causing the injury of 9 civilians; local sources reported.

Pakistan: Death toll rises to 70 in suicide blasts
21-08-2008
At least 70 persons were killed and dozens injured in two bomb blasts here at two different gates of Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) on Thursday

Palestine: Media Forum criticizes Israeli forces that stormed Hebron radio
21-08-2008
Media Forum expresses its condemnation of Israeli forces on Thursday who stormed three local radio stations in the southern West Bank’ Hebron.

Latest Press Release

July 18, 2008
UK government now targeting Islam
If the British government is attempting to interfere in the Muslim community on matters of Islam by funding a board of theologians, it is being “wrong-headed” as such a panel would have no credibility, according to editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi.

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Editorial - Dr Strangelove and Iran
Issue 231 - July 25, 2008
It was a mere coincidence that on the same day last month as the EU froze the accounts of Bank Melli, Iran’s main bank, the UK lifted sanctions against the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MeK or PMOI) organisation.

Editorial - Level playing field of opportunities
Issue 231 - July 25, 2008
In the new Equalities Bill, the Government aims to make Britain a fairer place where people have the opportunity to succeed whatever their race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Equality bill to outlaw religious discrimination
Issue 231 - July 25, 2008
Almost forty years after the introduction of the Equal Pay Act, Government plans to create a single equality bill signifies a milestone in the fight against the discrimination that persists in the UK today.

Cleared lawyer hits out at ‘institutionally racist’ Scottish judiciary
Issue 231 - July 25, 2008
The first solicitor to face charges of contempt of court for remarks made after a conviction blamed his ordeal on a north-south divide in the interpretation of the law and the “institutionally racist” and demographically unrepresentative Scottish judiciary.