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Morocco court approves Uyghur extradition to China: lawyer

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A Moroccan court has ruled that a member of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority, Yidiresi Aishan, can be extradited to China for alleged “terrorist acts”, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday.

“The judiciary confirmed yesterday that my client would be extradited. We don’t yet have the text of the judgement but psychologically it’s very hard for him,” said lawyer Miloud Kandil.

Aishan, a 34-year-old father of three, was arrested on July 19 as he arrived at Casablanca airport from Turkey.

China had issued an international arrest warrant against him over alleged “terrorist acts committed in 2017″, accusing him of belonging to a terrorist organisation”.

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The computer engineer, who has rejected the accusations, had been based in Turkey with his family since 2012 and had not returned to China since, his lawyer said.

It was not clear when he would be extradited, and Morocco’s borders are currently closed as part of Covid-19 measures.

Experts say China may have detained as many as a million Uyghurs in “political re-education camps” in Xinjian province.

Aishan was the target of an Interpol red notice, but according to rights group Amnesty International, the organisation “cancelled the red notice issued in Aishan’s case based on new information its secretariat received.”

Amnesty said Beijing’s accusations were motivated by work Aishan had done for Uyghur rights groups, and warned he could face “arbitrary detention and torture if he is forcibly returned to China.”

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The decision by the court of cassation to approve his extradition is final and cannot be appealed.

It comes days after a London panel of experts and lawyers concluded that China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population.

Beijing dismissed their findings.

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FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Arrested in Mexico and Deported to U.S.

Authorities in Mexico announced Thursday that Samuel Ramírez Jr., a U.S. citizen accused of murdering two women and listed among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was arrested in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Ramírez Jr., 33, was detained Tuesday in Culiacán just 1 hour and 13 minutes after being added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted list, the agency said in a statement.

The suspect, who was born in California, has already been deported to the U.S. state of Washington, where he faces charges related to the fatal shooting of two women at a bar in Federal Way in May 2023.

A court issued an arrest warrant for Ramírez in November last year, and the FBI initially offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture, later increasing the amount to up to $1 million.

“To protect individuals’ privacy and ensure continued cooperation from the public, the FBI does not confirm the identity of those who provide information,” the agency said in its statement.

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UN experts warn Nicaragua runs vast transnational network to monitor exiled dissidents

Nicaragua maintains an “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opposition figures living in exile, affecting “hundreds of thousands” of people, the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned on Tuesday.

In a statement, the experts said their report “details an extensive transnational architecture of surveillance and intelligence used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad.”

The report, which will be presented on March 16 to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, states that the structure maintained by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo includes the army, the police, migration authorities and diplomatic missions.

According to the statement, “the government has arbitrarily stripped 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality, left thousands more exiled in a situation of de facto statelessness, and prevented many from returning to Nicaragua.”

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Trump: ‘We Think It’s True’ Amid Claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Was Killed

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes multiple reports claiming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the U.S. and Israeli offensive against the Islamic Republic are likely true, though he stopped short of confirming the news.

“We have a feeling that the information is correct,” he said, according to NBC News. “I don’t want to say anything definitive until I see it, but we think that’s the case. And many of their leaders have disappeared,” he added.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “many indications” that Khamenei had died in an attack on his residential compound.