Mumine Saliyeva cannot forget how masked, gun-toting pro-Russian security officers pounded on her door last October. They arrived to search her apartment and arrest her husband, Seiran Saliyev. “Every day, I check a hundred times whether the door is locked, I get up at night to check, check again before my morning prayer,” the fine-featured …
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Russian airline sent American passengers back to India ‘because of their skin colour’
A Russian airline forced five Asian-American passengers to fly to Delhi instead of New York because of their skin colour, according to a racial discrimination complaint. Aeroflot staff warned the US citizens, all of south Asian descent, they would be “deported” to India if they refused to board the flight. The Americans were travelling from Delhi to the US on 7 …
Israeli Minister: 90% of Ukrainian Refugees Arriving Are non-Jews, Situation ‘Cannot Go On’
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said Sunday said that over 90 percent of Ukrainians arriving at the Israel’s borders are not Jewish and that the influx of refugees “cannot go on.” The Interior Minister said that less than 10 percent of the 2,034 Ukrainian nationals that have entered Israel since the war in Ukraine broke out …
Facebook allows Ukraine war posts urging violence against invading Russians, Putin
Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy. The social media company is also temporarily allowing some …