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Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France (CC BY-SA Massimiliano Mariani/Wikipedia)
April 27, 2017, 4:34 am
Russia, Iran accused of abusing Interpol to arrest foes
Council of Europe warns five-fold increase in 'red notice' arrest requests, from 2,343 in 2005 to 12,787 in 2016, partly due to crackdowns on dissidents
By AFP
Yesh Atid MK Aliza Lavie speaks during an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, June 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 25, 2017, 3:22 pm
MK blasts European report alleging ‘systematic’ Israeli killings in Gaza
Aliza Lavie says Council of Europe's assessment of the Palestinian enclave was designed to harm and 'demonize' the Jewish state
By Stuart Winer
IDF soldiers by the Gaza border, near Kibbutz Nir Am, in southern Israel, on January 13, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 25, 2017, 3:57 am
European officials accuse Israel of ‘systematic unlawful killings’ in Gaza
Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly adopts resolution slamming Israel for humanitarian crisis in blockaded Palestinian enclave
By TOI staff
Lutz Bachmann, founder of the far-right PEGIDA movement speaks during a rally in Dresden, April 18, 2016. (AFP/ROBERT MICHAEL)
April 19, 2016, 11:30 am
Head of German anti-Islam group due in court for hate speech
Lutz Bachmann, founder of far-right PEGIDA, charged with inciting racial hatred in Facebook posts
By Coralie Febvre
A member of the Jewish community looks at broken tombstones after a ceremony at the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, eastern France, on February 17, 2015, following the desecration of around 300 tombs. (Photo credit: AFP/PATRICK HERTZOG)
March 1, 2016, 8:35 pm
Council of Europe: Racism ‘commonplace’ in France
Figures show a 36% rise in anti-Semitic attacks, a 14% uptick in racist violence between 2012-2014
By AFP
Illustrative photo of Jews performing a religious circumcision. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
October 10, 2015, 5:55 am
Council of Europe doubles down on anti-ritual circumcision stance
Pan-European body maintains position that a brit milah violates children's rights
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 2, 2015, 2:14 pm
Council of Europe seeks ban on circumcision without ‘requisite skill’
Non-binding recommendation says ritual should only be allowed under 'appropriate medical and health conditions'
By JTA
Illustrative image of Germans carrying flags during rally in Dresden, December 15, 2014. (AP/Jens Meyer)
October 1, 2015, 12:40 pm
Watchdog rings alarm on rising racism, anti-Semitism in Germany
Council of Europe committee cites 'worrying developments' in attacks on migrants and minorities, despite official efforts to open up country
By AFP
Migrants and refugees walk near razor wire along a 3-meter-high fence at the official border crossing between Serbia and Hungary, near the northern Serbian town of Horgos, on September 15, 2015. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)
September 16, 2015, 10:28 am
Migrants head for Croatia to avoid Hungarian fence
Refugees carve new route to Western Europe after Budapest erects fence on Serbian border; Hungary says 367 arrested for unauthorized entry, damaging wire barrier
By AFP
The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed $25 million conference center. (Flickr Commons/via JTA)
September 6, 2015, 5:50 am
It’s a Jewish smackdown over Lithuanian site’s alleged graves
The biggest real estate development in Vilnius is the target of a duel between Londoner and local rabbis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A man wearing a kippa cries near a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, in eastern Paris, on January 10, 2015, a day after four people were killed at the Jewish supermarket by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly during a hostage-taking. (Photo credit: AFP/ KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)
June 11, 2015, 11:01 am
Experts plot strategy to stymie prison radicalization
After Paris attacks, corrections and counterterror officials meet to consider stopping spread of radical Islam in jails
By AFP and TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a street in Larnaca, Cyrpus, May 2, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/ YIANNIS KOURTOGLOU)
May 12, 2014, 10:30 am
Syrian refugees find dead end in Cyprus
Human rights groups concerned over the treatment of asylum seekers and immigrants escaping civil war
By Caroline Nelly Perrot
A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)
March 5, 2014, 1:49 am
Polish police arrest vandal of Jewish tombstones
Suspect reportedly desecrated over a dozen graves at an 18th-century cemetery near Krakow
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 30, 2014, 5:49 am
European Jewish officials defend ritual circumcision
Council of Europe hearing follows a resolution passed in October, which equated brit milah with female genital mutilation
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 20, 2013, 5:58 pm
Council of Europe motion backs circumcision
Moves to reverse earlier resolution comes after Israeli parliamentary group travels to Paris to plead for Jews' right to perform ritual
By JTA and Stuart Winer
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