TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei approved a proposal to pardon or commute the sentences of 2,000 Iranian convicts sentenced by various courts in the country.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Marking the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman paid tribute to children killed in conflicts across the region and condemned the crimes committed by the US and the Israeli regime against civilians.
Legal experts accuse Palestine Action judge of bias, lawyers demand recusal Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Thu, 06/04/2026 - 19:46 A complaint signed by over 3,000 people accuses Justice Johnson of 'personal animosity towards the defendants and the Palestinian cause, incompatible with the role of a judge' The defendants from left to right: Jordan Devlin, Leona Kamio, Charlotte Head, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers, and Samuel Corner (Screengrab/X) Off Legal experts are among thousands who have signed a formal complaint accusing the presiding judge in a Palestine Action case of bias and discriminatory conduct. The complaint, which will be filed on Friday by the campaign group, Defend Our Juries (DOJ), with the Judicial Conduct Office, comes ahead of a hearing on Monday on the defendants’ application for the recusal of Justice Jeremy Johnson on the grounds of apparent bias and abuses of process. Charlotte Head, Leona Kamio, Samuel Corner and Fatema Rajwani risk facing sentencing as terrorists on 12 June, despite being convicted by a jury of criminal charges.
Around 9,500 detainees in Israeli prisons, including children The number of detainees in Israeli prisons has reached about 9,500 as of early June, according to the latest tally by Palestinian prisoner groups. Among them are at least 90 female detainees and 360 children. This figure excludes unaccounted-for detainees held in Israeli military camps, primarily Palestinians abducted from Gaza, whose precise numbers remain unknown but are believed to be in the thousands.
Report: ICE to end reporting deaths of released detainees US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to eliminate reporting deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release, The Washington Post reported based on an internal memo. "ICE is returning to the standard practice of reporting deaths that occur while an individual is in agency custody," acting director David Venturella wrote in the memo. During Joe Biden’s presidency, a 30-day requirement was adopted to hold ICE accountable for released detainees ith serious medical conditions.
States attending the June Climate Meetings next week in Bonn, Germany must use the talks to turn climate commitments into a concrete actionable rights-centric agenda for November’s COP31, Amnesty International said today. What happens in Bonn matters because it will shape the negotiations, priorities and level of ambition that governments carry into COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye later this year. These meetings are an important chance for governments to show they are ready to translate climate commitments made in the recently adopted United Nations […] The post Global: Governments heading to Bonn must act on climate commitments to protect human rights appeared first on Amnesty International .
In response to the announcement by Haitian authorities of two new specialized judicial units intended to address, among other issues, serious human rights abuses in Haiti, Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, said: “The opening of these specialized judicial units is a necessary step in the fight against the widespread impunity that has enabled […] The post Haiti: New judicial units must ensure real justice for victims, especially children appeared first on Amnesty International .
Israeli soldiers shoot, kill young Palestinian in West Bank Israeli forces shot and killed an 18-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Haaretz reported. Palestinian sources named the victim as Haitham Ez al-Din Omar Hamida and said that Israeli authorities had taken his body.
Zeynab Javadli had not been in contact with any of her friends since Tuesday.
Twenty-six Palestinian patients evacuated from Gaza for treatment abroad Twenty-six Palestinian patients were evacuated from Gaza via the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Thursday to seek medical treatment abroad, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. The ministry said in a statement that 64 other Gaza residents accompanied the patients and urged “the immediate facilitation” of medical evacuations for thousands of patients in need of treatment.
The Egyptian authorities must immediately halt the unjust prosecutions of three human rights activists arrested solely for organizing a peaceful event calling for the release of those arbitrarily detained, Amnesty International said today. On 25 May, Egyptian police arrested pharmacist Hanan Altantawy, and lawyers Mohamed Abu al-Dayyar and Wafaa al-Masry, all members of the informal group the Committee to Defend Prisoners of Conscience (CDPC), for the group’s involvement in organizing a public event in Cairo two weeks earlier highlighting cases of people unjustly detained for political reasons. Altantawy and al-Masry were released on bail on the day of their arrest but prosecutors ordered that Abu […] The post Egypt: Drop charges against activists arrested for demanding release of unjustly jailed prisoners appeared first on Amnesty International .
'Acts of revenge': Israel arrests Palestinian women footballers and students Submitted by Fayha Shalash on Thu, 06/04/2026 - 14:31 Families say the arrests came without explanation amid a sharp rise in the detention of Palestinian women and girls Rand Halawani, 20, was one of five women arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this week, including two footballers and three university students (X) Off The pounding on the door came before dawn. When Ahmed Safi awoke to the sound of Israeli soldiers storming his apartment building in Birzeit town, he assumed they were there for someone else. The Palestinian father never imagined the raid would end with the arrest of his 20-year-old daughter, Sama, a psychology student at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Polanski and Corbyn join calls for Britons who served in Israeli army to be tracked Submitted by Imran Mulla on Thu, 06/04/2026 - 12:47 Around 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals have served in the Israeli military during its genocide in Gaza An Israeli soldier raises his rifle as part of an occupation patrol through the market in the Old City of Nablus, in the northern West Bank on 12 April (AFP) Off Green Party leader Zack Polanski and Your Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have joined calls for the British government to place British citizens who have served in the Israeli military under surveillance. Polanski signed an open letter organised by Declassified UK to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper urging them to "track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF" and "subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry". The letter called for "robust war crimes investigations in line with domestic and international law".
Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of civilians being held hostage by armed groups in Manipur, warning that their continued captivity reflects a deepening human rights crisis amid the authorities’ ongoing failure to protect people from escalating ethnic violence in the state. Twenty people have been taken hostage by armed groups from the Kuki and Naga communities in Manipur following escalating inter-ethnic tensions […] The post India: Release all hostages and end cycle of violence in Manipur appeared first on Amnesty International .
Iranian authorities are continuing to use children in security-related activities, including checkpoints and participating in military-themed programs, according to messages sent by citizens to Iran International.
Ban on Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur should terrify the entire 'British public' Submitted by Shereen Fernandez on Wed, 06/03/2026 - 16:26 Home Office decision to deny entry to anti-Zionist US political commentators highlights a broader assault on domestic freedoms Political commentator Hasan Piker attends an event in Los Angeles, California, on 15 March 2026 (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images/AFP) On This past March, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood quoted George Orwell’s essay “The Lion and the Unicorn” during a speech on immigration and asylum. Two months later, Mahmood’s outrageous decision to block American citizens and political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from entering the UK , apparently on the basis of their criticisms of Israel , evokes the very authoritarians that Orwell’s most famous works decry. Many analysts have discussed the impacts of this decision on Piker and Ugyur as individuals, highlighting the illiberal and undemocratic theft of their freedoms of movement and speech.
In early 2025 photojournalist Marios Lolos was covering a demonstration in Athens about the Tempi rail tragedy when a police officer threw a stun grenade in his direction. It hit the left side of his head, exploding next to him. The impact resulted in him suffering permanent hearing loss and a head injury.
Greek police frequently use unnecessary or excessive force against peaceful protesters and journalists resulting in serious physical and psychological injuries, Amnesty International said in a report published today, as it called for a ban on the use of stun grenades in the policing of protests. Protests are not battlefields: Patterns of unlawful use of force by police and impunity in Greece finds that these deeply disturbing abuses are underpinned by protest legislation that […] The post Greece: Dangerous policing tactics have turned peaceful protests into battlefields appeared first on Amnesty International .
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said the Resistance Front will continue its struggle until foreign forces are expelled from West Asia and the Zionist regime is eliminated, stressing that recent developments have imposed new realities on the region’s adversaries.
Responding to the news that Egyptian activist and writer Ahmed Douma has been convicted and sentenced to one year in prison following an unfair trial, Amnesty International’s Regional Researcher, Mahmoud Shalaby said: “The renewed unjust imprisonment after an unfair trial of Ahmed Douma is a devastating assault on the right to freedom of expression. The weaponization of the criminal justice system against Ahmed Douma and other activists lays bare president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government’s relentless campaign to crush peaceful dissent and restrict civic space. “Having already […] The post Unjust one-year prison sentence for activist Ahmed Douma emblematic of Egypt’s ongoing arbitrary detention crisis appeared first on Amnesty International .
