International News
Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Journalist and pro-Palestine activist Ben White spoke on the controversial topic of ‘Israeli Apartheid: From Gaza to the Galilee’ this month at SOAS. White, a prominent supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, led an impassioned defence of the Palestinian right to
Calais
Marta Garcia Aliaga, LLB (Law) They are 80. And they are trapped behind the double wall of barbed wire that separates the French city of Calais and the English Channel. All forms of transport that could take them to the promised land that is meant to grant them asylum — Britain
Bureaucracy
Theo Cohn, BA International Relations and Chinese The place I grew up in is a land with a famously unique culture where obscure, if not bizarre, traditions remain to this day. Japan’s conservative and proud reluctance to fully align many of its practices with the west, makes it difficult
Evin Prison
Photo: Anoo Bhuyan Tom King, BA Politics Former SOAS student Ghoncheh Ghavami has been sentenced to a year in prison in Iran after being found guilty of “propaganda against the state”, according to her lawyer. The verdict has not yet been officially released, but Alizadeh Tabatabaie, the lawyer representing Ghavami,
detention
Tom King, BA Politics After 109 days in detention, former SOAS student Ghoncheh Ghavami appeared in court today facing charges of “propaganda against the state” after she attempted to attend a men’s volleyball match at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium in June. Ghavami has spent more than 40 days in
Evin Prison
Tom King, BA Politics Former SOAS student Ghoncheh Ghavami has now been on hunger strike for over a week after being detained in Iran for more than 100 days. The SOAS alum was arrested in June after attempting to watch a men’s volleyball match. Ghavami was transferred to Tehran’
Boycott
Tom King, BA Politics Israel has incurred losses of up to $8 billion as a result of the campaign to boycott illegal settlements, according to Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative movement. The claim comes as the European Union issued demands for Israel to label poultry, dairy
Marta Pancini, BA Development Studies and Politics The lead up to Scotland’s vote on independence on 18 September saw the rise of fears and hopes on a variety of issues, from more obvious ones such as EU membership of Britain and the potential currency of an independent Scotland to
detained
Tom King, BA Politics A former SOAS student has been arrested and detained in Iran after attending a protest against the country’s restrictions on women attending sporting events. Ghoncheh Ghavami, who studied law at SOAS, was arrested outside the Azadi Stadium with more than a dozen other women when
egypt
Tom King, BA Politics Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has secured at least 96% of the vote in Egypt’s presidential election, according to state media. Sisi, a former military officer, played a leading role in the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood’s President Morsi last year. He faced just one other
deportation
By Tom King A Level student Yashika Bageerathi has been deported by UK authorities on an Air Mauritius flight from Heathrow to Mauritius. A last minute bid by lawyers to seek an emergency injunction to halt the 19 year old’s deportation was rejected by high court judge Lord Justice
International News
By Phillipa Wilkinson SOAS students held a demonstration on Wednesday to show solidarity with protests in Turkey over the death of teenager Berkin Elvan. About 50 students occupied the space in front of SOAS at lunch time with posters and drums to chant slogans against Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and