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February 1, 2026
Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters in Tamaki Makaurau today heralded a global demand for the freedom of thousands of Palestinians who have been unlawfully imprisoned by Israel in its illegal occupation of Palestine. Today is the Red Ribbon Campaign’s global day of solidarity for Palestinian hostages or political prisoners. It is the culmination of ... <a title="Protesters demand freedom for 9000+ Palestinian ‘political prisoners’ held hostage by Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/01/protesters-demand-freedom-for-9000-palestinian-political-prisoners-held-hostage-by-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Protesters demand freedom for 9000+ Palestinian ‘political prisoners’ held hostage by Israel">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis have beaten unconscious the man most likely to help realise a sustainable end to the conflict: Marwan Barghouti. The ethnocentrism of Western culture is such that 20 Israeli hostages received vastly more coverage than thousands of ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and looked away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/21/eugene-doyle-palestinian-mandela-beaten-unconscious-western-leaders-yawned-and-looked-away/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and looked away">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The world’s most important hostage — must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the genocide they may recognise the state of Palestine. States need leaders. That’s why Marwan Barghouti – often dubbed the Palestinian Mandela — must be freed. A former head of Israel’s ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/06/eugene-doyle-recognise-palestine-then-free-marwan-barghouti/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle A litmus test of Israel’s commitment to abandon genocide and start down the road towards lasting peace is whether they choose to release the most important of all the hostages, Marwan Barghouti. During the past 22 years in Israeli prisons he has been beaten, tortured, sexually molested and had limbs broken. ... <a title="Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/marwan-barghouti-the-worlds-most-important-hostage-must-be-freed/" aria-label="Read more about Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope for better things this year. Decolonisation issues involving the future of Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua – and also in the Middle East with controversial United Nations votes by ... <a title="Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/five-pacific-region-geopolitical-betrayals-in-2024/" aria-label="Read more about Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2024
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Syria, where tens of thousands of people gathered at the Great Mosque of Damascus for the first Friday prayers since longtime authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad was toppled by opposition fighters. DAMASCUS RESIDENT: [translated] Hopefully this Friday is the Friday of the greatest joy, a Friday of ... <a title="Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved ones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/14/damascus-and-gaza-prisoners-syrians-and-palestinians-search-for-disappeared-loved-ones/" aria-label="Read more about Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved ones">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We are being told by the Western media that we should join Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and the Europeans in celebrating ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/13/eugene-doyle-the-dismemberment-of-syria-is-a-crime/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with Syria and the aftermath of the historic collapse of the Assad regime. Israeli forces are continuing to attack key military sites, airports and army air bases in cities across Syria, including the capital Damascus. In just the ... <a title="‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/politics-is-finally-possible-after-surprise-fall-of-syrias-assad-in-protracted-civil-war-whats-next/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta In December 2008, I visited the Abepura prison in Jayapura, West Papua, to verify a report sent to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture alleging abuses inside the jailhouse, as well as shortages of food and water. After prison guards checked my bag, I passed through a ... <a title="Filep Karma: A political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/01/filep-karma-a-political-prisoner-who-fought-racism-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Filep Karma: A political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews France has been criticised for the “alarming” death toll in New Caledonia during recent protests and its “cold shower” approach to decolonisation by experts of the UN Human Rights Committee. The UN committee met this week in Geneva for France’s five-yearly human rights review with a focus on its Pacific ... <a title="UN experts ‘alarmed’ by Kanaky New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding mission readies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/26/un-experts-alarmed-by-kanaky-new-caledonia-deaths-as-pacific-fact-finding-mission-readies/" aria-label="Read more about UN experts ‘alarmed’ by Kanaky New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding mission readies">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style assassination and extrajudicial executions” are designed to “inflame the whole region”, reports Al Jazeera. The killings of the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad ... <a title="Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/israel-accused-of-being-a-rogue-state-trying-to-destabilise-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the population, while in Kanaky, the Nouméa prison, known as Camp Est, is populated by 95 percent Kanaks, while they represent only 39 to 43 percent of the Caledonian population. SPECIAL REPORT: ... <a title="From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/from-kanaky-to-palestine-how-paris-is-weaponising-deportations-from-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific">Read more</a>
