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Today's headlines Egyptian activist Ala Abdel Fattah at risk of suicide amid prolonged detention Over a thousand Palestinian prisoners to launch hunger strike against Israeli violence Migrants stranded in Mexico go on hunger strike to demand safe passage Investigate PH releases final report on human rights abuses in the Philippines Rights groups have raised alarm over the continued detention of Egyptian activist Ala Abdel Fattah his lawyer stated this week that Abdel Fattah was considering suicide due to the conditions of his imprisonment The left wing blogger was a prominent figure in the 2011 Revolution and anti-government protests He was released from prison after four years in 2019 but was arrested again just six months later He was accused in charges of publishing false news belonging to a terrorist group and misuse of social media Abdel Fattah has been in solitary confinement at the Torah Maximum Security Prison for nearly two years His family has said that prosecutors have failed to respond to the emergency communications His lawyer has stated that the duration of his mental health is unprecedented Abdel Fattah has also reported severe rights violations during his detention including beatings Egypt currently has over 65,000 political prisoners, a trial of another activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki began on September 14th, he was arrested in February 2020 and is accused of spreading false news 1,380 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel will launch a hunger strike on September 17th They are protesting the violent and illegal collective punishment in Israeli jails after the Gilboa jailbreak The strike comes after protest actions in the Negev, Ramon and Kidziot prisons last week Israeli prison officials are in the process of separating and relocating hundreds of Palestinian prisoners It was reported last week that prisoners were not allowed out of their cells They were also denied access to the cafeteria and the kitchen The Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission has also reported the torture and abuse of the four recaptured prisoners Among them is Mohammad Arda who has been subjected to physical abuse and sleep deprivation He has also been denied access to food or water and has been injured on his head and face Since he was arrested on Friday, Israeli authorities had banned the recaptured prisoners from meeting their lawyers Wafa News reported currently only one lawyer is allowed to meet one prisoner at a time Migrants and activists in the Mexican state of Shrapaz launched a hunger strike this week The protests is taking place in the border area of Tapachula where around 40,000 people are currently stranded Migrants are demanding safe passage for a caravan heading towards the US As per the EFE News Agency, 147,000 undocumented migrants were present in Mexico between January and August 70% of all asylum applications are registered in Tapachula Migrants currently in the area are mostly from Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador and Venezuela In recent weeks, the Mexican National Guard and other forces have violently pushed back at least four migrant caravans Around 100 undocumented migrants were also arrested on August 31 Meanwhile, US Border Control agents detained 212,000 undocumented migrants in July alone The hunger strike in Tapachula is being supported by Puebla-Sinfronteras and the Center for Human Dignification Nearly 5,000 people were reported to have gathered in the protests on Monday Doctors Without Borders or MSF has stated that migrants in Tapachula currently do not have access to medical or social services The final report of the International Human Rights Coalition Investigate-PH was released this week The initiative was launched in 2020 to look into rights abuses in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte It has examined over 50 human rights violations including massacres The final report looked at violations of social, economic and cultural rights It found that 50% of Filipinos live in poverty, land reforms have stalled and demolition of urban poor communities has increased It also argued that government continued to serve US interests, which undermined the Filipino people's right to self-determination The report also reviewed Duterte's violent counterinsurgency tactics, which include mass arrests, red tagging and extrajudicial killings Police killings of civilians in so-called anti-drug operations also rose during the COVID-19 pandemic As of August 2020, killings grew by 50-76% per month on average Rights groups have estimated that at least 27,000 people have been killed in Duterte's drug war campaign Former ICC prosecutor Fatou Bansouda has also stated that there is a reasonable basis to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed That's all we have for this episode of the International Year E-Roundup To find out more about these stories, visit our website peepersandspires.org Subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on 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