Pauline Ertel

5 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad |Jürgen Mackert |Pauline Ertel

A Palestinian-Jordanian woman with German residency was separated from her one-year-old after German authorities deemed the child a security threat, she and her lawyers say. The European Legal Support Centre, which is supporting her case, say the woman is the latest victim of the German state’s weaponisation of residency issues to repress Palestinian solidarity.

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Pauline Ertel |Richard Silverstein

US President Trump has already caused an "unprecedented" human rights crisis in his first 100 days in office, human rights experts have said. Human Rights Watch's new report, titled "100 Human Rights Harms in 100 Days, The Trump Administration’s Assault on Rights in the United States and Abroad", catalogues what they term as rights abuses under the first three months of the Trump administration.