Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar

5 Mass graves were uncovered in Myanmar yesterday in connection with the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya.

Approximately 400 villagers believed to have been attacked on August 27 of last year,  mercilessly killed and buried together according to a report released by the Associated Press. Horrifying images of bodies rising to the surface due to heavy rain fall has alerted surviving members to the mass graves. This comes not long after world human rights organisations condemned the Myanmar government for the discovery of another mass grave in the village of Inn Dinn in December 2017. The Myanmar government continues to vehemently deny any such involvement.

Trump Signs Order to Keep Guantanamo Bay Open

U.S President Donald Trump has this week signed to keep Guantanamo Bay open. The statement came moments before presenting his first State of the Union Address, in which he vowed to put chase and find terrorists for Guantanamo Bay. The Obama administration had failed to close the institution despite promising to close it within Obama’s first few days in office. Now, just over a year into his presidency, Trump has closed all doors for human right activists across the world hoping to close down the U.S military prison.

He is literally saying that the US will continue to commit crimes against humanity – torture, indefinite detention #Guantanamo #SOTU

— Noura Erakat (@4noura) January 31, 2018

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 Protests Against Iran’s Compulsory Hijab Sweep Tehran

Women across the world have joined together in Solidarity with two women who took to the streets of Tehran this week in protest of the government’s forced Hijab policy. Viral images of two women who have both been arrested, surfaced between Sunday and Monday of this week in an effort to combat an order issued by Ayotollah Khomeini in 1979. Supporters of the protest in Iran and around the world have taken to social media to post images of them holding headscarves on sticks, a movement originally started by 31-year-old Vida Movahed.

A woman in chador protesting against compulsory hijab. The message is clear women should have a choice via @NahidMolavi #دختران خیابان انقلاب pic.twitter.com/Jz2wbpPYnP

— Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) January 31, 2018

Fatal Finsbury Park Attacker Finally Convicted

It’s been announced today that 48-year-old Darren Osborne has been convicted of killing 1 individual and injuring 12 others after driving a van into a crowd in North London in June of last Year. Many of those in the area during the incident were Muslim worshippers observing their prayers during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when Osborne rammed his van into a crowd of people in a vicious anti-Muslim hate crime.

Justice achieved today for the victims of the #FinsburyPark Mosque terrorist attack by Darren Osborne. Inspired by far right preachers and parts of the media that have perpetually promoted an environment of Islamphobia and anti Muslim hatred.

— Mohammed Shafiq (@mshafiquk) February 1, 2018

Man Accused of Murdering His Daughter Samia Shahid in Honour Killing Has Died

28-year-old Samia Shahid travelled to Pakistan last year to visit relatives and was murdered in an alleged honour killing by her father Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid. Shahid from Bradford, West Yorkshire was initially thought to have died from a heart attack and was later found to have been strangled, in what her husband says was an attack from her family in their disapproval from their marriage. Her father, an ongoing suspect in the case has now passed away.