APPG Calls for UK Government Action to Protect Yazidis

ByJulie Jones

On 15 November Brendan O’Hara MP initiated a debate (full transcript below) to call for the UK Government to provide treatment for Yazidi former sex slaves of Daesh in the UK. They are ineligible to come to the UK under the current refugee schemes as they are Iraqi not Syrian. The All Party Parliamentary Group for…

Mauritanian blogger faces death penalty for ‘apostasy’

ByJulie Jones

There are reports that Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkheitir faces his final appeal on 15 November, only days after a leading Muslim religious body in Mauritania reiterated calls for him to be executed following his death sentence for ‘apostasy’. The 28-year-old blogger was arrested In Mauritania in January 2014 for allegedly publishing an article seen by some…