Harry and Meghan win human rights award before Netlfix documentary drops
"They've talked about racial justice and they've talked about mental illness in a way that was incredibly brave," Kerry Kennedy said.
Haley Ott is the CBS News Digital international reporter, based in the CBS News London bureau.
Haley graduated cum laude from Boston University with a degree in Philosophy and History and then earned a master's degree in Political Theory from the London School of Economics. Haley started her journalism career in London working for outlets including Al Jazeera and Vice News. As the international reporter for CBS News digital platforms, Haley has covered the Middle East and the Ukraine war extensively. Focusing on human rights issues, she also reported on a range of stories including climate change's impact on gender equality in Zanzibar, and on cartel violence in Mexico.
"They've talked about racial justice and they've talked about mental illness in a way that was incredibly brave," Kerry Kennedy said.
The royal couple arrived in Boston only hours after a royal aide resigned for interrogating a Black woman who was attending an event at Buckingham Palace.
"If you'd seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it... you would feel under threat all of the time," the former U.K. counterterrorism chief said.
"Down with Xi Jinping! Down with the Communist Party!" protesters could be heard chanting in videos circulated online.
One video posted online shows a woman saying security "forces shot my child," rejecting regime claims that the 9-year-old was killed by terrorists.
The verdict from the international court comes more than eight years after a missile slammed into the commercial flight, killing all 298 people on board.
NATO's secretary general says the missile "hasn't changed our fundamental assessment of the threat against NATO allies."
"I've broken my strike. I'll explain everything on Thursday," says a letter in Abdel-Fattah's handwriting, according to his family.
"The international community must strongly warn the Islamic Republic of the consequences of executing protesters," a rights group said.
His lawyers and U.K. government representatives, however, have not been allowed to visit him in prison.
Biden said the leaders accept a joint responsibility to "prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict and to find ways to work together on urgent global issues."
"You can save Alaa, and you can show that there is some hope and potential for common sense, freedom, democracy," Sanaa Seif said, appealing directly to the U.S. leader.
Pressure has mounted on Egypt to free the prominent activist as the country hosts COP27, but his family could instead face new persecution.
The man, who was quickly detained, reportedly yelled: "This country was built on the blood of slaves."
The head of the U.N.'s human rights office says activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah's life "is in great danger."