Saudi human rights group banned from visiting Gitmo prisoners News
Saudi human rights group banned from visiting Gitmo prisoners

[JURIST] The Saudi National Organization for Human Rights, the only human rights watchdog in Saudi Arabia [JURIST news archive], said Tuesday it has been banned from visiting Saudi prisoners in the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed, head of the group, said the US ambassador in Riyadh [official website] would not allow the group to travel to meet prisoners and inspect the conditions of their detention. The group had hoped to visit the detainees, investigate allegations of rights violations, including physical and psychological torture [Center for Constitutional Rights backgrounder] and ensure that the estimated 121 Saudi prisoners were afforded rights stipulated by treaty. UPI has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

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