Posts Tagged ‘detains’

Turkiye detains 20 after Ankara bombing

Security forces in Turkiye have detained twenty people suspected of having links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s suicide bombing outside the interior ministry’s headquarters in the capital, Ankara. According to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Monday, more than two dozen “operations” were carried out in Istanbul and Kirklareli, a […]

Tunisia detains cartoonist over drawings mocking prime minister

Tunisia’s public prosecutor yesterday detained the cartoonist Tawfiq Omrane over drawings mocking the prime minister, Omrane’s lawyer said, Reuters reported. Omrane is well known for publishing satirical cartoons featuring President Kais Saied, who seized almost all powers two years ago after he shut down Tunisia’s elected parliament in a move that the opposition described as […]

Iran detains Mahsa Amini’s uncle as anniversary of her death, protests loom

Iran’s security forces have detained a relative of a Kurdish-Iranian woman days before the anniversary of her death in the custody of the morality police that sparked months of nationwide protests, a source close to the family said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Fearing a revival of the unrest that rocked the Islamic Republic, Iran’s clerical […]

Algeria detains 28-person Morocco smuggling network

The Algerian Gendarmerie Nationale on Friday detained a network of 28 Moroccans and four Algerians who arranged secret immigration trips to Spain, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. In a statement, the Gendarmerie Nationale in the governorate of Wahran disclosed that it: “Dismantled an international criminal network specialised in planning and organising secret voyages setting off from Morocco […]

Poland detains suspected Russian spies ‘preparing acts of sabotage’

Poland’s security services say they have detained members of a Russian espionage ring, alleging they were preparing acts of sabotage and had been monitoring railroad routes used for the transport of weapons into Ukraine. Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said the Internal Security Agency arrested nine people suspected of spying for Russia. Three were detained Wednesday. […]

Turkey Detains Building Contractors As Quake Deaths Pass 33,000

Authorities said more than 92,600 other people were injured in the disaster. Source

Germany Detains 25 Far-Right Extremists Who Allegedly Planned Coup

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of police carried out a series of raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state in an armed coup. Federal prosecutors said some 3,000 officers conducted searches at 130 sites in 11 of Germany’s 16 states against adherents of the so-called […]

Turkey detains Syrian suspect in deadly Istanbul bombing

Turkish police have released a video of the arrest of a woman they claim has confessed to Sunday’s deadly bomb attack in Istanbul. They identified the woman as Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national. Source

Saudi Crackdown: Regime Detains Yemeni-American Citizen While on Pilgrimage

November 14, 2022 By Staff, Agencies As Saudi Arabia is hardening crackdown on dissent, including targeting its citizens who live abroad, a Yemeni-American citizen has been detained in Saudi Arabia while performing the ‘Umrah’ pilgrimage at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. Mohamad Salem was taken into custody on November 1 and has […]

Turkey detains Taksim explosion suspect, blames PKK

November 14, 2022 Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English  Turkey’s Interior Minister held the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) responsible for Sunday’s bombing in a busy Istanbul street. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu stated that the suspect who planted an explosive device in Istanbul on Sunday has been arrested. A strong explosion was heard Sunday in a busy area […]

Libya militia detains hundreds of Chadians in Ajdabiya

Hundreds of Chadians were detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government’s arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion of poaching endangered animals, local Libyan media reports. According to the report, at least 400 people were arrested in the city of Ajdabiya by a militia […]

Iran detains Bahai spying group linked to Israel

TEHRAN- Security forces in northern Iran have detained 12 members of a Bahai spy network with connections to the Israeli regime, according to a statement from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. “A sum of twelve members of the Israeli regime-backed group were identified and arrested in different cities of Mazandaran province,” the statement said.  It added […]

Iran detains Bahai spying group linked to Israel

TEHRAN- Security forces in northern Iran have detained 12 members of a Bahai spy network with connections to the Israeli regime, according to a statement from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. “A sum of twelve members of the Israeli regime-backed group were identified and arrested in different cities of Mazandaran province,” the statement said.  It added […]

Iran detains and releases U.S. USV

TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Nay has detained and then released a U.S. unmanned surface vessel (USV) in the Persian Gulf, according to Nour News. The news website, which is linked to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the IRGC Navy “controlled and towed” an American USV which had lost navigation communications […]

Iranian Intelligence Ministry detains Mossad spy squad

TEHRAN- The Iranian Intelligence Ministry on Saturday revealed that a group of Mossad agents had been detained. Source

UAE detains Khashoggi lawyer, rights group says

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has detained a US citizen and civil rights attorney who served as the lawyer for the assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a human rights group has revealed. In a statement yesterday by the group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), it announced that the Virginia-based civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor […]

Kazakhstan Detains Nearly 1,700 More After Violent Unrest

MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakh authorities said Wednesday they detained 1,678 more people in the past 24 hours over their alleged participation in the violent unrest that rocked the former Soviet nation last week, the worst since Kazakhstan gained independence three decades ago. The additional detentions, reported by authorities in Almaty, the country’s largest city that […]

Kazakhstan Detains Former Security Chief for Treason

Posted on January 8, 2022 by martyrashrakat Jan 9 2022 By Staff, Agencies The former head of Kazakhstan’s domestic intelligence agency has been detained on suspicion of high treason after he was fired amid violent protests. The National Security Committee, or KNB, said in a statement on Saturday its former chief Karim Masimov – a […]

Ethiopia detains thousands of Tigrayans repatriated from Saudi Arabia, rights group says

The Ethiopian government has been detaining and forcibly disappearing thousands of Tigrayans who were repatriated back to the country from Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). After tens of thousands of Tigrayans were deported from the Gulf Arab Kingdom between December 2020 and September 2021 under an agreement with Ethiopia, […]

France detains man for shipping chemical weapons parts to Syria regime

French police have detained a French-Syrian man on suspicion of supplying the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad with components to develop its chemical weapons capabilities. According to the news agency, AFP, which cited anonymous sources close to the case, the 59-year-old was arrested on Saturday in the south of France after returning to the country […]

Poland ‘detains 100 migrants after attempted border crossing’ from Belarus

Polish security forces arrested around a hundred migrants overnight as they tried to break across the border from Belarus, Poland’s defence ministry said on Thursday. “A group of around 100 migrants were arrested by Polish services,” the ministry said, accusing Belarusian forces of having “forced the migrants to throw stones at Polish soldiers to distract […]

Belarus Government Blocks Media Outlet, Detains Reporters

KYIV, Ukraine—Belarusian authorities blocked the website of a leading online media outlet, detained several of its journalists, and conducted searches involving three other media organizations Thursday, the latest moves in a sweeping clampdown on dissent and independent media in the ex-Soviet nation. Belarus’s Information Ministry said it has blocked Nasha Niva’s website after the prosecutor […]

Iraq detains 964 wanted terrorists in a week

The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Friday the detention of 964 wanted terrorists during a series of campaigns carried out by security forces last week, Anadolu Agency reported. The ministry confirmed that the campaign was carried out between 20 May and 3 July, issuing no additional details about the operation. On Thursday, two people were […]

Germany detains suspects for stoning synagogue, burning Israeli flags

German police have detained more than a dozen men in three cities suspected of damaging a synagogue with stones, burning Israeli flags and starting a fire at a memorial for a Jewish house of prayer destroyed during the Nazi pogroms of 1938.German politicians on Wednesday condemned the three separate incidents as antisemitic attacks, which coincided […]

Israel detains Jerusalem activists ahead of Palestinian elections

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Russian security service briefly detains Ukrainian diplomat

Russia‘s FSB security service briefly detained a Ukrainian diplomat in St Petersburg, Ukraine‘s foreign ministry said on Saturday, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the neighboring countries. Interfax news agency earlier reported the FSB as saying Oleksandr Sosoniuk was taken into custody when he tried to obtain classified information from Russian law enforcement databases […]

Egypt detains 8 people in Sohag train crash 

Egypt’s top prosecutor yesterday ordered the detention of eight people following a train collision in Upper Egypt. Two trains collided on Friday in Egypt’s southern province of Sohag, leaving 18 passengers dead and 200 others injured. In an official statement, the general prosecutor said that the detention order had included the “drivers of the two […]

Russia detains around 200 people, including leading opposition figures

Russian police detained around 200 people, including several prominent opposition figures, at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, the interior ministry said. Вот видео моего задержания: прямо во время общения с журналистами. Зачем вообще разогнали форум независимых депутатов? Власти очевидно кажется, что она демонстрирует силу. В реальности же вся эта […]

Russia detains around 150 people, including leading opposition figures

MOSCOW  – Russian police detained around 150 people at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, accusing them of links to an “undesirable organization,” a monitoring group and a TV station said. Вот видео моего задержания: прямо во время общения с журналистами. Зачем вообще разогнали форум независимых депутатов? Власти очевидно кажется, […]

Hong Kong detains 47 activists in sweeping use of new security law

Hong Kong police on Sunday detained 47 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under the city’s controversial national security law. The former lawmakers and democracy advocates had been previously arrested in a sweeping police operation in January but were released. They have been detained again and will appear in court on Monday, […]

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