Kawthar Muhaib

It should be noted that this cultural activist had just returned from a festival in Kirkuk Province, the autonomous area of Iraqi Kurdistan yesterday - Kawthar Muhaib

calls on the regional government to grant legal recognition to Shabaks and Yazidis as distinct ethnic groups instead of imposing Kurdish identity on them and to ensure that they can participate in public affairs without fear of retribution. The report also calls on the central government in Baghdad to protect minorities at the local, provincial, and national levels, and to investigate killings and displacement of Assyrian Christians and deadly attacks against other minorities. - Kawthar Muhaib

They found that many earlier studies had vastly overestimated the effect, but the number of murders did go down in the short-term aftermath of executions. Based on two different statistical models, they found the effect in the months after each execution to be a reduction of between 0.5 to 2.5 homicides. - Kawthar Muhaib

Until mid-2007, ward 350 was reserved for prisoners of conscience, but with the appointment of Sedaghat as the warden, it was dissolved and its prisoners were redistributed in other sections inside the prison. Three years later, and with the large number of recent political prisoners, ward 350 has once again become the public ward dedicated to political prisoners. - Kawthar Muhaib

Male technical assistants do not enter the studio while the women are presenting. - Kawthar Muhaib

The organization, named the Egyptian Organization for Divorced Men, rejects the law because it equalizes men and women and gives the woman the right to get a divorce herself, a right that was previously exclusive to men. - Kawthar Muhaib

In 2007 there were 450 reported rapes. By 2008 the figure had shot up to 600..."During the programme there was an erotic scene. The victim turned to her sister and said: 'That's what the Koranic school teacher does to us.'" - Kawthar Muhaib

The 34-year-old victim, who was nine months pregnant, received seven fatal stab wounds to different parts of her body..The victim would often leave her husband’s house and he “once caught her committing adultery with another man”, the source said - Kawthar Muhaib

The number of incidents reported in London rose from 161 cases in 2007 to 256 cases last year with 211 cases reported in the first six months of this year, Scotland Yard officials said. - Kawthar Muhaib

Human Rights Watch has documented three cases of sexual assault in Iranian prisons on persons arrested since the disputed June 12, 2009 presidential election - Kawthar Muhaib

The aggravating crisis should not tempt us to expect rifts powerful enough to destroy the MB's organisational unity, or even tremors severe enough to shake its cohesion and hierarchical structure. The culture of the organisation limits the notion of both dissension and secession. - Kawthar Muhaib

"Step by step we will bestow religious law upon the citizens of Israel and transform religious law into the binding law of the state," - Kawthar Muhaib

The daily was banned “for working outside the regulations” of the press law, the Fars news agency reported on Monday. - Kawthar Muhaib

Prosecutors accuse the Democratic Society Party (DTP), which holds 21 seats in the 550-member parliament, of supporting Kurdish separatist rebels. - Kawthar Muhaib

We will not allow the minister to turn our schools into centres for the formation of dancers and dance troupes....obliging students to take up music courses in high schools or universities is a violation of their rights - Kawthar Muhaib