Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti)

Tigray Says UAE-Backed Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed) Participated in Fighting as Hundreds Flee to Sudan حكومة تيغراي تعلن صد هجوم للجيش الإثيوبي في غرب الإقليم وتتهم مليشيا الدعم السريع المدعومة من الإمارات بالمشاركة في القتال بينما يفر مئات الإثيوبيين إلى السودان #محتوى_مترجم_بالأسفل ----------------------------- The Government of the Tigray Region announced that its forces had repelled a large-scale military offensive launched by forces affiliated with the Ethiopian federal government in the vicinity of the Shirerena area in western Tigray. It also accused fighters from Sudan's Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed) of participating in the attack alongside other armed groups operating in the area. In a statement issued from Mekelle on August 2, 2026, the regional government said the offensive began at dawn and continued until late afternoon. According to the statement, it involved repeated ground assaults carried out by multiple military formations, supported by airstrikes and heavy weaponry. The statement further stated that units of the Rapid Support Militia, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, took part in the operation alongside the Ethiopian army and other armed groups. The Tigray government said its security forces successfully held their positions, repelled successive attacks, and prevented the attacking forces from achieving their military objectives in the area. According to the regional authorities, hospitals and medical centers stretching from western Tigray to the Gondar area received large numbers of wounded soldiers. The statement also reported that some of the injured were airlifted to other parts of Ethiopia. The Tigray government said that the air evacuations were intended to conceal the extent of the losses suffered by the attacking forces. The reported casualty figures and the alleged involvement of all the forces mentioned in the statement could not be independently verified. The regional government warned that forces affiliated with the Prosperity Party might launch similar offensives on other fronts in the coming period. It added that, in its words, the people of Tigray possess the legal and natural right to defend their lives, security, sovereignty, and right to self-determination. These developments come amid escalating military tensions in western Tigray near the Sudanese border, an area that has witnessed recent clashes involving artillery and drones. The fighting has also reportedly forced hundreds of Ethiopian civilians to flee across the border into Sudan, according to Sudanese security and medical sources, which reported the arrival of displaced civilians and wounded individuals in border areas. The Tigray government's allegations that the UAE-backed Rapid Support Militia participated in the fighting suggest that the threat posed by this military project is no longer confined to Sudan. The Janjaweed Militia, which has been accused of killings, looting, forced displacement, and acts of terror against Sudanese civilians, is now alleged to be operating beyond Sudan's borders and contributing to the opening of new fronts of conflict. Such developments could threaten the security of Ethiopia, Sudan, and the wider region while turning border areas into open theaters for armed groups, mercenaries, and transnational supply networks. These developments also reflect the dangerous consequences of the United Arab Emirates' policy of financing and arming armed groups to expand its political and military influence in the region. Continued Emirati support for the Rapid Support Militia has prolonged the war in Sudan, undermined the stability of neighboring countries, and facilitated the movement of weapons, fighters, and instability across national borders. The reported appearance of the Janjaweed Militia in the Ethiopian conflict is presented as evidence that the military project backed by Abu Dhabi has become an expanding source of terrorism and instability in the Horn of Africa. The policies of the UAE and its allies now threaten not only Sudan but the entire region by fueling additional wars, displacement, and security deterioration, exposing civilian populations to the consequences of a cross-border military project that, according to the article, disregards state sovereignty and civilian lives. The renewed fighting in Tigray also poses a fresh challenge to the Pretoria Agreement, signed in November 2022, which ended a two-year war between the Ethiopian government and Tigray forces. That conflict resulted in a large number of casualties and the displacement of millions of civilians. #Sudan #Ethiopia #RSFisTerroristOrganization #UAEKillsSudanesePeople #UAESponsorsTerrorism أعلنت حكومة إقليم تيغراي أن قواتها صدت هجوما عسكريا واسعا شنته القوات التابعة للحكومة الفيدرالية الإثيوبية في محيط منطقة شيريرينا بغرب تيغراي، واتهمت عناصر من مليشيا الدعم السريع السودانية بالمشاركة في الهجوم إلى جانب مجموعات مسلحة أخرى تنشط في المنطقة. وقالت حكومة الإقليم، في بيان صدر من مدينة ميكيلي بتاريخ 2 أغسطس 2026، إن الهجوم بدأ عند الفجر واستمر حتى وقت متأخر من بعد الظهر، وشمل هجمات برية متكررة نفذتها تشكيلات عسكرية مختلفة، إلى جانب استخدام الطيران والأسلحة الثقيلة. وذكر البيان أن قوات تابعة لمليشيا الدعم السريع، بقيادة محمد حمدان دقلو المعروف باسم حميدتي، شاركت في العمليات إلى جانب الجيش الإثيوبي ومجموعات مسلحة أخرى. وأضافت حكومة تيغراي أن قوات الأمن التابعة للإقليم تمكنت من الحفاظ على مواقعها وصد الهجمات المتتالية، ومنعت القوات المهاجمة من تحقيق أهدافها العسكرية في المنطقة. وبحسب حكومة تيغراي، فقد استقبلت المستشفيات والمراكز الطبية الممتدة من غرب تيغراي حتى منطقة قوندر أعدادا كبيرة من الجنود المصابين، فيما جرى نقل بعض الجرحى جوا إلى مناطق أخرى داخل إثيوبيا. وقالت حكومة الإقليم إن عمليات النقل الجوي تهدف إلى إخفاء حجم الخسائر التي تكبدتها القوات المهاجمة. ولم يتسن التحقق بصورة مستقلة من أعداد القتلى والجرحى أو من تفاصيل مشاركة جميع القوات التي ورد ذكرها في البيان. وحذرت حكومة تيغراي من احتمال شن القوات التابعة لحزب الازدهار هجمات مماثلة على جبهات أخرى خلال الفترة المقبلة، مؤكدة أن سكان الإقليم يمتلكون، وفق تعبيرها، الحق القانوني والطبيعي في الدفاع عن حياتهم وأمنهم وسيادتهم وحقهم في تقرير المصير. وتأتي هذه التطورات وسط تصاعد التوترات العسكرية في غرب تيغراي، بالقرب من الحدود السودانية، وهي منطقة شهدت خلال الأيام الأخيرة اشتباكات استخدمت فيها المدفعية والطائرات المسيرة. كما دفعت المواجهات مئات المدنيين الإثيوبيين إلى العبور نحو الأراضي السودانية هربا من القتال، وفقا لمصادر أمنية وطبية سودانية تحدثت عن وصول نازحين وجرحى إلى المناطق الحدودية. وتكشف اتهامات حكومة تيغراي بشأن مشاركة مليشيا الدعم السريع المدعومة من الإمارات في القتال أن خطر هذا المشروع العسكري لم يعد محصورا داخل السودان. فالمليشيا التي نشرت القتل والنهب والتهجير والإرهاب بين السودانيين باتت تتحرك خارج الحدود وتشارك في إشعال جبهات جديدة، بما يهدد أمن إثيوبيا والسودان ودول المنطقة، ويحول المناطق الحدودية إلى ساحات مفتوحة للجماعات المسلحة والمرتزقة وشبكات الإمداد العابرة للحدود. كما تعكس هذه التطورات النتائج الخطيرة للسياسة الإماراتية القائمة على تمويل وتسليح الجماعات المسلحة واستخدامها لتحقيق نفوذ سياسي وعسكري في المنطقة. فقد أدى الدعم الإماراتي المستمر لمليشيا الدعم السريع إلى إطالة الحرب في السودان، وتقويض استقرار دول الجوار، وفتح المجال أمام انتقال السلاح والمقاتلين والفوضى بين أكثر من دولة. ويشير ظهور المليشيا في الصراع الإثيوبي إلى أن المشروع الذي رعته أبوظبي أصبح مصدرا متناميا للإرهاب وعدم الاستقرار في القرن الأفريقي. كما تكشف هذه التطورات أن السياسات المتهورة للإمارات وحلفائها لا تهدد السودان وحده، وإنما تدفع المنطقة بأكملها نحو مزيد من الحروب والنزوح والانهيار الأمني، وتعرض شعوبها لتداعيات مشروع عسكري عابر للحدود لا يعبأ بسيادة الدول أو حياة المدنيين. ويشكل تجدد القتال في تيغراي تهديدا جديدا لاتفاق بريتوريا الموقع في نوفمبر 2022، والذي أنهى حربا استمرت عامين بين الحكومة الإثيوبية وقوات تيغراي، وأسفرت عن سقوط أعداد كبيرة من الضحايا وتهجير ملايين المدنيين. #السودان #إثيوبيا #الدعم_السريع_منظمة_إرهابية #الإمارات_تقتل_السودانيين #الإمارات_ترعى_الإرهاب #SudaneseEcho #صدى_السودانيين

| HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING | 29.07.2026 | 08 :18 AM ET |Last 24 Hours | 83,000 civilians trapped in Sudan, a woman shot at a protest in Afghanistan, and 110 Rohingya including children jailed after UN eviction | Three crises, one pattern: civilians left without protection. In Sudan's El-Obeid, 83,000 people cannot flee as armed forces close in. In Afghanistan, the UN documented nearly 400 arrests, floggings, and a woman shot at a protest. In Malaysia, 110 Rohingya, including children, were jailed after the UN had evicted them from shelter. **TOP 20 STORIES INDEX**  ^(Scroll down for the full summary For each story) \[01\] **Saudi Arabia Executes Five More Ethiopian Migrants After Trials Lasting Minutes** | July 28, 2026 | 18:35 ET | Human Rights Watch \[02\] **Sudan: 83,000 Civilians Trapped in El-Obeid With No Safe Exit as RSF Advances** | July 29, 2026 | 05:01 ET | BBC World \[03\] **South Sudan: Army and Militias Committed War Crimes Against Civilians in Western Equatoria** | July 29, 2026 | 04:00 ET | Human Rights Watch \[04\] **Pakistan Fires on Election-Day Protesters in Kashmir Under Full Internet Blackout** | July 28, 2026 | 15:33 ET | Amnesty International \[05\] **Gaza: Israeli Strike Kills Palestinian, Destroys Mosque** | July 29, 2026 | 02:45 ET | Al Jazeera \[06\] **West Bank: Palestinian Village Living Under Weekly Settler Attack** | July 29, 2026 | 05:01 ET | BBC World \[07\] **Malaysia Detains 110 Rohingya — Including Children — After UNHCR Eviction** | July 28, 2026 | 23:01 ET | Myanmar Now / Amnesty International \[08\] **Sudan: Refugees Who Fled the War Are Now Battling Thirst in Chad's Camps** | July 29, 2026 | 01:30 ET | Al Jazeera \[09\] **Azerbaijan Sentences Nine Journalists to Up to 15 Years for Receiving Foreign Funds** | July 28, 2026 | 12:16 ET | Committee to Protect Journalists \[10\] **Afghanistan: UN Documents 389 Morality Arrests, Floggings, and a Woman Shot at a Protest in Herat** | July 28, 2026 | 12:00 ET | UN News / UNAMA \[11\] **IOM: Online Scam Centres Are Now One of the World's Fastest-Growing Forms of Human Trafficking** | July 28, 2026 | 12:00 ET | UN News / IOM \[12\] **ICE Agents Used Racial Slurs to Target Latinos in Los Angeles Sweeps, Court Records Show** | July 28/29, 2026 | 00:27 ET | The Guardian / CalMatters \[13\] **Yemen: Saudi-Coalition Strikes on Sanaa Airport Cut Off Civilians From Medical Care Abroad** | July 28, 2026 | 21:35 ET | Human Rights Watch \[14\] **Nigeria: Leaked Shell Documents Show the Company Knew Its Niger Delta Pipelines Were Failing — and Kept Pumping** | July 28, 2026 | 23:01 ET | Amnesty International \[15\] **Bangladesh: International Crimes Tribunal Charging 41 People — But HRW Says the Process Is Broken** | July 28/29, 2026 | 03:30 ET | Human Rights Watch \[16\] **Indonesia: Environmental Activists and Indigenous Leaders Prosecuted for Defending Their Land** | July 28/29, 2026 | 03:00 ET | Human Rights Watch \[17\] **Ukraine: Russian Forces Kill Civilian Bread Van Driver in Kherson, Wound 30 Across the Country** | July 29, 2026 | 09:12 ET | Kyiv Independent \[18\] **Lebanon: Israeli Forces Carry Out Demolitions in Tyre** | July 29, 2026 | 05:41 ET | Middle East Eye \[19\] **Rohingya Youth in Bangladesh Camps: A Generation That Has Never Known School** | July 28, 2026 | 22:40 ET | Global Voices \[20\] **Peru: Newly Inaugurated President Fujimori Vows Military-Led Crime Crackdown** | July 28, 2026 | 21:16 ET | France 24 **TOP 20 STORY SUMMARIES** \[01\] **Saudi Arabia Executes Five More Ethiopian Migrants After Trials Lasting Minutes** | July 28, 2026 | 18:35 ET | Human Rights Watch **Five** Ethiopian migrants were executed in Saudi Arabia on **July 27** for nonlethal **drug offenses**, Human Rights Watch confirmed. No **due process**. That brings the total to at least **17** Ethiopian nationals executed this year on **drug-related charges**. At least **79** more are waiting. Many were convicted of carrying qat, a mild stimulant that's legal in Ethiopia and Yemen but **banned** in Saudi Arabia, often without knowing they were breaking any law. **Court hearings** sometimes ran just a **few minutes**. Defendants didn't get a **lawyer**. They didn't get a **translator**. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry have both called for the **executions** to stop. Saudi Arabia executed **356** people in **2025**, the highest figure in recent years, with most cases involving **drug charges** against **foreign nationals**. Without serious **diplomatic pressure**, the **79** Ethiopians still on **death row** are next in line. \[02\] **Sudan: 83,000 Civilians Trapped in El-Obeid With No Safe Exit as RSF Advances** | July 29, 2026 | 05:01 ET | BBC World El-Obeid has become a city of last refuge. More than **83,000 civilians** have fled fighting elsewhere in Sudan and poured into the city. Now the **RSF** is closing in. The **UN** warned last week that nearly **400,000** people in the surrounding area are facing **food shortages** after the RSF launched a record number of **drone strikes** on the city in **June**. Satellite imagery shows the Sudanese army is building a **defensive berm** around el-Obeid, not to trap people inside, but to hold the attackers back. It may not hold. RSF leader **Hemedti** told his front-line commanders to move straight forward. No retreat. No hesitation. The **IOM's** chief of mission in Sudan, **Mohamed Refaat**, put it plainly: many of these families have already been displaced once and are being forced to start over again, leaving behind whatever they had managed to rebuild. There is no **humanitarian corridor** out. Another wave of **mass displacement** could begin within days. \[03\] **South Sudan: Army and Militias Committed War Crimes Against Civilians in Western Equatoria** | July 29, 2026 | 04:00 ET | Human Rights Watch South Sudan's army, **opposition forces**, and their allied militias drove most of the civilian population out of **Nagero County, Western Equatoria**, during fighting in **2025**. What they did before people fled qualifies as **war crimes**, HRW said. Government forces and allied fighters **summarily executed** at least **8 civilians**, including **children**. Women were **raped**. Detainees were **tortured**. Homes were burned and looted. One man described being stopped as he fled with his family and beaten in front of his children by soldiers who told him that running meant he was a rebel. People have returned to Nagero town, but fear hasn't left with them. The **Integrated Food Security Phase Classification** warned in **April** that the **nutrition situation** in the county was expected to keep getting worse through **July** because of ongoing **insecurity**. No investigation has been launched. A relative of **2 students** killed in **February** said he reported the case more than a year ago and still can't afford a proper grave marker for them. \[04\] **Pakistan Fires on Election-Day Protesters in Kashmir Under Full Internet Blackout** | July 28, 2026 | 15:33 ET | Amnesty International **Security forces** opened fire on protesters in **Rawalakot**, **Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir**, on the **first day of regional elections**. By the time voting started, at least **40 people** were already dead, **34** of them protesters. The internet has been cut since **June 5**. Mobile services, too. The **Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC)**, which organized the protests, was designated a **proscribed terrorist organization** that same day, under **anti-terrorism legislation**. Its supporters were in the streets demanding **electoral reform** in a heavily militarized region where a system of **reserved seats** gives outsiders what they say is disproportionate control over local governance. A **JAAC** spokesperson said security forces removed bodies from the scene to destroy evidence. **Amnesty International** said the violence fits a pattern consistent with Pakistan's long history of **unlawful force** against protesters in the region and called for an **independent investigation**. With the blackout still in place, a full **casualty count** can't be confirmed. \[05\] **Gaza: Israeli Strike Kills Palestinian, Destroys Mosque** | July 29, 2026 | 02:45 ET | Al Jazeera **Israeli forces** killed at least **1 Palestinian** and destroyed a **mosque** in **Gaza** on **July 29**. The **UN Security Council** met the same day for a live briefing on conditions in **Gaza** and the **West Bank** as regional tensions continued to rise. Hospitals, places of worship, and residential buildings have absorbed repeated **strikes** throughout the **military campaign**. International human rights organizations have raised concerns about the proportionality of the strikes and whether they comply with the **laws of armed conflict**. The **Security Council** session produced no **binding resolution**. **Humanitarian access** to Gaza remained severely constrained. Confirmed **civilian casualty** figures for the day were not available at publication time. \[06\] **West Bank: Palestinian Village Living Under Weekly Settler Attack** | July 29, 2026 | 05:01 ET | BBC World A **BBC** investigation found that residents of a **West Bank** Palestinian village have been living through recurring **settler attacks**, families sheltering indoors while settlers destroy property and threaten people outside. **Israeli security forces** were either absent or didn't intervene. This isn't one incident. **UN monitors** have documented a surge in **settler violence** across the **West Bank**, and what the **BBC** found reflects a broader pattern that rights groups describe as **forced displacement** disguised as private aggression. Residents describe it as a strategy of wearing people down, repeated incursions meant to push them off land without any formal **expulsion order**. International condemnation hasn't changed conditions on the ground. No **arrests** related to the incidents documented in the **BBC** report have been announced by **Israeli authorities**. \[07\] **Malaysia Detains 110 Rohingya — Including Children — After UNHCR Eviction** | July 28, 2026 | 23:01 ET | Myanmar Now / Amnesty International **Malaysian police** rounded up more than **100 Rohingya asylum seekers** outside the **UNHCR** office in **Kuala Lumpur** on **Monday night**. The group had traveled by bus to the **UN** compound after being threatened with **eviction** from their settlement in **Penang**. Police loaded **110** men, women, and children into trucks and took them to **national police headquarters**. By **Tuesday** they'd been moved again, to a location designated by an **NGO**. Malaysia hosts more than **215,000 refugees** registered with **UNHCR**. Over **126,000** of them are **Rohingya** who fled **persecution** in **Myanmar**. None of them have any **legal status**. Malaysia never signed the **1951 Refugee Convention** and doesn't formally recognize **refugee status**, which means every one of them is exposed to **arrest, detention, and deportation** at any time. **Human Rights Watch** said the authorities should be protecting people who'd already been evicted from their homes, not detaining them. Going back to **Myanmar's Rakhine State** isn't an option. The fighting there hasn't stopped. \[08\] **Sudan: Refugees Who Fled the War Are Now Battling Thirst in Chad's Camps** | July 29, 2026 | 01:30 ET | Al Jazeera For tens of thousands of **Sudanese** who escaped the **RSF's** advance, survival didn't end when they crossed into **Chad**. It just changed shape. The camps are critically short on **water**. In summer heat, families are queuing for hours for rations that fall below **minimum humanitarian standards**. **Chad** has absorbed one of the largest **refugee influxes** since **Sudan's war** began in **2023**, far beyond what its own infrastructure can handle. The camps lack adequate **latrines**, medical facilities, and shade. **Disease outbreaks** are a growing risk. International funding for the **Sudan refugee response** is severely underfunded relative to what's needed. People who fled a war now face conditions that carry their own risks of death. With fighting intensifying inside **Sudan**, going back isn't an option. \[09\] **Azerbaijan Sentences Nine Journalists to Up to 15 Years for Receiving Foreign Funds** | July 28, 2026 | 12:16 ET | Committee to Protect Journalists A court in **Baku** convicted **9 people** connected to **Toplum TV** on **July 27** and sent them to **prison** for up to **15 years**. The charges: receiving and using **Western donor funds** as part of an **"organized criminal group."** **Toplum TV** was one of the last **independent online news outlets** in **Azerbaijan**. It covered **official corruption** and social problems. The outlet's founder and director, **Alasgar Mammadli**, got **14 years**. Activists **Akif Gurbanov** and **Ruslan Izzetli** each received **15 years**. Other journalists and media workers in the case received sentences ranging from **12 to 14 years**. The only defendant who'd remained free pending trial was taken into custody in the courtroom when the verdict was read. A lawyer for the accused told the **Associated Press** the ruling was unlawful and **politically motivated**, and that it was linked directly to their journalism. His clients will appeal. The **CPJ** said the sentences show what happens when **autocratic governments** face no **international accountability**. With **Toplum TV** effectively shut down, **Azerbaijan's** space for **independent reporting** has nearly closed. \[10\] **Afghanistan: UN Documents 389 Morality Arrests, Floggings, and a Woman Shot at a Protest in Herat** | July 28, 2026 | 12:00 ET | UN News / UNAMA Between **April and June 2026**, **UN** monitors documented at least **389 arbitrary arrests** and **65 incidents of ill-treatment** carried out by **Taliban morality police** across **Afghanistan**. Most of the arrests were tied to **hijab enforcement**, men's hairstyle regulations, or listening to music. In **Herat**, **Taliban** authorities arrested at least **30 women** over **dress code violations** in early **June**. When people protested the detentions, **security forces** opened fire. At least **1 person** was killed, several others were wounded. Women remain banned from **UN premises**, **July 29** marked the **296th consecutive day**. **University entrance exams** were held in **May and June** for **120,000 male** prospective students. No women or girls participated. New **Taliban marriage decrees**, the **UNAMA** report noted, implicitly sanction **child marriage**. The **International Criminal Court** has issued **arrest warrants** for senior **Taliban** leaders on charges of **crimes against humanity**. \[11\] **IOM: Online Scam Centres Are Now One of the World's Fastest-Growing Forms of Human Trafficking** | July 28, 2026 | 12:00 ET | UN News / IOM The **IOM** put out an alert **Tuesday**: hundreds of thousands of people are being **trafficked** into **online scam compounds** in **Southeast Asia**, and the industry is expanding fast. Victims from more than **80 countries** have been pulled in. Criminal networks operating across **Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos** employ as many as **300,000 workers** in scam centres. Most were lured in through **fake job ads** on social media promising legitimate employment. Once they arrived, their **documents were confiscated**. They were subjected to **violence and debt bondage** and forced to run **fraud operations** targeting people, often older people, in the West. Survivors describe **torture, sexual abuse, starvation, and solitary confinement**. Between **2022 and 2025**, **IOM** helped more than **3,500 victims** from **39 countries**. The agency's director general stressed the same point that keeps getting missed: people forced to run scams inside these compounds are **trafficking victims**, not criminals. Global **financial losses** from scam operations reached between **$88 billion and $114 billion** last year. \[12\] **ICE Agents Used Racial Slurs to Target Latinos in Los Angeles Sweeps, Court Records Show** | July 28/29, 2026 | 00:27 ET | The Guardian / CalMatters Court filings in the **Vasquez Perdomo vs. Noem** case include **text messages** and **body camera footage** showing **federal immigration agents** using **racial slurs**, including "wet" and "tonks," to identify targets during **Los Angeles immigration sweeps**. In one clip, an agent can be heard saying: "Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we'll jump out." Plaintiffs are asking a **federal judge** to bar agents from **racial profiling**. The filing argues that **ICE** conducted an ongoing campaign of **suspicionless, discriminatory stops** across the **Central District of California**, and that the stops continued well after the high-profile **2025** summer raids ended. One agent acknowledged in a deposition: "We're still doing the same thing, just with a different name." A **May 2025** directive told **ICE** officers to "turn the creativity knob up to **11**" and arrest more "collaterals," people who weren't the original target but got picked up anyway. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said **ICE** doubled its field teams partly through recruitment ads using **white nationalist messaging**. Of the roughly **1,400 Border Patrol agents** involved in **Los Angeles** operations, most still haven't handed over their **cell phones**. A federal hearing is set for **September 24**. \[13\] **Yemen: Saudi-Coalition Strikes on Sanaa Airport Cut Off Civilians From Medical Care Abroad** | July 28, 2026 | 21:35 ET | Human Rights Watch On **July 13**, **Yemeni government forces** backed by **Saudi Arabia** struck **Sanaa International Airport** with at least **5 airstrikes**. **3** of them hit the **runway** directly. The stated goal was to stop an **Iranian airline flight** from landing at the **Houthi-controlled airport**. **Sanaa** is the only airport serving **international flights** in and out of **Houthi-held territory**, where most of **Yemen's** population lives. Civilians who need medical treatment they can't get inside **Yemen** rely on it as their only way out. **HRW** said the strikes should be investigated as possible **war crimes**. The **Houthis** responded by hitting **Abha International Airport** in **Saudi Arabia** with **ballistic missiles and drones**. The cycle of strikes resumed where it left off before the **2022 truce**, nearly **4 years** of relative calm, gone. **Yemen's** nearly **12-year conflict** has killed thousands of civilians and displaced millions, with almost no **accountability**. \[14\] **Nigeria: Leaked Shell Documents Show the Company Knew Its Niger Delta Pipelines Were Failing and Kept Pumping** | July 28, 2026 | 23:01 ET | Amnesty International Internal **Shell** emails, technical audits, and **confidential reviews** disclosed during **UK court proceedings** tell a story the company has long denied. **Shell** knew its **pipelines** were failing. One was internally described as "a basket case." The company kept the **oil flowing** anyway. An internal **Shell** presentation found that **375 square kilometers** of **mangrove forest** had been damaged by its operations. The company's own **decommissioning estimate** ran to **$10.9 billion**. Rather than face that liability, **Shell** chose to sell off its **onshore Nigerian business**. The communities in the **Niger Delta** that lived alongside those pipelines weren't part of that calculation. A new report from **Amnesty International**, published together with **7 other** environmental and human rights organizations, lays out the findings from those documents. A **UK court case** involving communities in **Bille and Ogale**, around **50,000** people whose land and water were destroyed by decades of **oil pollution**, is heading to a full **trial in 2027**. No remediation has started. \[15\] **Bangladesh: International Crimes Tribunal Charging 41 People — But HRW Says the Process Is Broken** | July 28/29, 2026 | 03:30 ET | Human Rights Watch **Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal** received charges against **41 people** on **July 27** for **crimes against humanity and genocide**. The defendants include **politicians, security force members, and journalists** accused of abuses under former **Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's** government, which was toppled by protests in **2024**. But **HRW** said the tribunal doesn't meet **international legal standards**, and the risks are serious. The law allows **prosecutors** to order **arrests** without meeting any **evidential threshold**. Detainees can be held for **months** without written reasons. There's no right to appeal to a separate court during proceedings. Trials can proceed without key **witnesses** being made available to the **defense**. The **interim government** that replaced **Hasina** amended the tribunal's founding legislation but didn't fix its core **due process** problems. The government elected in **February 2026** hasn't made further changes. **HRW** warned the failures could mean real **abusers escape accountability** while **political opponents** get falsely imprisoned, repeating the exact cycle the tribunal was created to break. \[16\] **Indonesia: Environmental Activists and Indigenous Leaders Prosecuted for Defending Their Land** | July 28/29, 2026 | 03:00 ET | Human Rights Watch **Indonesian prosecutors** have used **criminal charges** to go after **environmentalists** and **indigenous community leaders** who opposed **mining, plantation, and infrastructure projects** on their land. The charges, **defamation, obstruction, incitement**, are standard tools for silencing people who challenge **business interests** in **Indonesia**, **HRW** found. The communities affected by **deforestation, land grabs, and resource extraction** have tried to invoke **customary land rights**. What they've gotten in return, in many cases, is a **criminal case**. The pattern, **HRW** said, amounts to the **weaponization of the law** against people who are doing nothing more than defending their homes and livelihoods. **HRW** called on **Indonesian authorities** to drop the charges and reform the laws being used this way. No government response had been issued at publication time. \[17\] **Ukraine: Russian Forces Kill Civilian Bread Van Driver in Kherson, Wound 30 Across the Country** | July 29, 2026 | 09:12 ET | Kyiv Independent **Russian forces** killed a civilian delivering bread in **Kherson** and injured at least **30 people** in attacks across **Ukraine** over the previous **24 hours**, the **Kyiv Independent** reported. Targeting a civilian making food deliveries, if deliberate, is a **war crime** under **international humanitarian law**. **Kherson** has been under near-daily **shelling** since **Ukrainian forces** retook the city in **2022**. Residential areas, markets, and civilian infrastructure remain routine targets. The total toll of **Ukrainian civilian casualties** since **February 2022** now runs into the **tens of thousands**. **Accountability mechanisms** remain in early stages. \[18\] **Lebanon: Israeli Forces Carry Out Demolitions in Tyre** | July 29, 2026 | 05:41 ET | Middle East Eye **Israeli forces** carried out **demolitions** in **Tyre** on **July 29**, the southern **Lebanese** city that is also a **UNESCO World Heritage site** and home to tens of thousands of civilians. The operation is part of an ongoing pattern of **military activity** in **south Lebanon** that human rights organizations have been tracking since **Israeli** operations expanded into **Lebanese territory**. **Lebanese** residents and officials reported destruction of buildings and infrastructure. **International humanitarian law** prohibits the destruction of **civilian property** unless it serves a clear and direct **military necessity**. No **Israeli military** statement on the specific **demolitions** in **Tyre** was available at the time of publication. \[19\] **Rohingya Youth in Bangladesh Camps: A Generation That Has Never Known School** | July 28, 2026 | 22:40 ET | Global Voices Children who arrived in **Bangladesh's refugee camps** as infants in **2017** are now adolescents. Most of them have spent their entire lives in the world's largest **refugee settlement** without meaningful access to **education**. **Bangladesh** doesn't allow **Rohingya children** into its **national school system**. Informal **education programs** in the camps operate on limited curricula and have faced repeated **funding cuts**. Young people who grew up in the camps are entering adulthood without **credentials**, without language skills beyond their own community, and without any clear pathway forward. **Myanmar** still won't recognize **Rohingya citizenship**. Return isn't on the table. A generation without **education** has no leverage in any future negotiation over **repatriation**, and rights groups say that's not just a **humanitarian failure**, it's a political one with long-term consequences. \[20\] **Peru: Newly Inaugurated President Fujimori Vows Military-Led Crime Crackdown** | July 28, 2026 | 21:16 ET | France 24 **Peru's** newly inaugurated **President Keiko Fujimori** announced a **military-led security crackdown** in her first days in office. Human rights organizations raised immediate concerns. **Peru's constitution** limits the domestic security role of the **armed forces**. Deploying the **military** in **policing functions** creates conditions for **extrajudicial violence** and shields abusers from **accountability**, a pattern **Peru** knows well. During the **internal conflict** of the **1980s and 1990s**, **security forces** were responsible for thousands of **extrajudicial killings and disappearances**. **Keiko Fujimori's** father, **Alberto Fujimori**, was convicted of **human rights crimes** stemming from that era. The **Committee to Protect Journalists** also flagged a case from the same week: a **Peruvian journalist** was ordered to pay a **$14,500 defamation fine** after being sued by a **judge** for her reporting. The **military crackdown** hasn't taken effect yet. How it's implemented and who oversees it will determine how much damage it does.

U.S. Slams New Sanctions on Sudan Over Chemical Weapons Claims The United States has imposed new sanctions on Sudan's military-led government, accusing it of using chemical weapons in its war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The measures, which took effect, include restrictions on US financing and exports, and a ban on Sudanese state-owned airlines using US airspace. Sudan has rejected the allegations as "baseless". The war between the army and the RSF began in April 2023 after a power struggle between Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti. The US has imposed sanctions on both men. It has also accused RSF commanders of committing genocide in Darfur. The war has fuelled what the United Nations describes as the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with nearly 20 million people facing acute food insecurity. # # # # #

Sudan'da bir mahkeme, BAE destekli Hızlı Destek Kuvvetleri'nin Hemedti olarak bilinen lideri Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo'yu soykırım ve savaş suçlarından idam cezasına mahkum etti.

Sudan sentences RSF chief Hemedti to death: Who’s he, what’s he accused of?

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