Video: He worked for 22 years at Arsenal. Then they fired him over Israel Mark Bonnick worked at Arsenal for 22 years. Then on Christmas Eve 2024, the former kitman was fired over posts he made on X criticising Israel over the genocide in Gaza.
UN to place Israel on sexual violence in conflict blacklist, Israeli envoy says Israel's ambassador to the UN said his country had been added to a UN blacklist of sexual violence in conflict zones, alongside Hamas. "This is a political decision! Disconnected from the facts and reality!
France calls on prosecutor to investigate Israeli abuse of activist on Gaza-bound flotilla France has asked its public prosecutor to look into the treatment of French nationals who were apart of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla seized by Israeli troops last week. "Based on a report I requested from our Consul General in Turkey, who informed me of sexual violence, exposure to the cold, beatings, and repeated humiliation of French nationals, all of these acts are likely to constitute criminal offenses (and) I decided yesterday to refer the matter to the public prosecutor," French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio.
In response to the statement issued by Nicaraguan authorities regarding the critical health condition of Indigenous leader and prisoner of conscience Brooklyn Rivera, César Marín, Americas Campaigns Director at Amnesty International, said: “Brooklyn Rivera must be released immediately and unconditionally. His critical health condition while in the custody of the Nicaraguan state confirms the extreme […] The post Nicaragua: Brooklyn Rivera must be released before it is too late appeared first on Amnesty International .
Former truck driver Jonathan Loadholt pleaded guilty to money laundering and stalking in the plot targeting activist Masih Alinejad.
UN expert says adding Israel to sexual violence blacklist is ‘long overdue’ Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, says the decision to add Israel to a UN blacklist of countries accused of committing sexual violence is “long overdue”. “This listing could not have come soon enough,” Alsalem wrote on X. “I had in the past expressed my disappointment that Israel was not listed already, given the systematic, large-scale and horrific sexual violence perpetrated by Israel against Palestinian women, men and children that have been independently documented and verified,” she added.
The U. S. Congress and the international community must take immediate action to stop the U.
US extends TPS for Lebanese citizens in US through November Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Thu, 05/28/2026 - 15:18 This is the first time the Trump administration has voluntarily extended protections for a group whose country is unsafe to return to A displaced Lebanese girl leans over a balcony at a school-turned shelter, near Sidon, Lebanon, on 17 May 2026 (Aziz Taher/Reuters) Off In an unexpected move this week, the Trump administration will announce that it is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Lebanese citizens in the US for another six months, until November. The decision, filed in the US Federal Register on Wednesday, is scheduled for publication on Friday. It is the first voluntary extension of TPS carried out since President Donald Trump returned to power in January 2025.
Arsenal fired me on Christmas Eve for opposing Israel. This is why I'm suing | Mark Bonnick Submitted by Mohamed Hashem on Thu, 05/28/2026 - 16:35 ‘I regret losing my job. Not what I said’ Mark Bonnick worked at Arsenal for 22 years.
Families of people killed in Iran’s January protests say names and burial records have disappeared from Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery database, raising new concerns over efforts to erase evidence of the deaths.
Organizations and Advocates Inside Iran Reject State-Controlled Internet Access Harm to Children, Education, and Underprivileged Areas Especially Severe A broad coalition of civil society organizations in Iran has published a statement urgently calling for a free and open internet in the country, arguing that it is inseparable from the defense of education, children’s futures, economic dignity, […] The post A Collective Call from Inside Iran for Free and Equal Internet Access appeared first on Center for Human Rights in Iran .
Iranian authorities are using wartime conditions to intensify repression through mass arrests, fast-tracked prosecutions, political executions and harsh prison sentences, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
How pro-Israel trolls exploit the people of Sudan and the DRC Submitted by Barry Malone on Wed, 05/27/2026 - 14:22 While it is right to call out a lack of attention on forgotten conflicts, bad faith arguments reduce African victims to pawns in a propaganda war Protesters at a rally for Gaza hold signs urging global attention on Palestine and other conflicts in New York City on 31 May 2024 (Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Press Wire via Reuters) Off Those who defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza have a script. If you spend any time online, watching TV news debates, or listening to both Israeli and western politicians, you will be familiar with much of it. “They use civilians as human shields in Gaza” is a common line.
Iranian authorities are using the cover of what they call “wartime conditions” to intensify their repression of dissent through mass arbitrary arrests, accelerated grossly unfair judicial proceedings, politically motivated executions, harsh prison sentences, and asset confiscations, Amnesty International said today. Since the unlawful military attack launched by the USA and Israel against Iran on 28 […] The post Iran: Mass arbitrary arrests and political executions mark intensifying repression appeared first on Amnesty International .
Israel 'added to UN blacklist' for sexual violence in conflict zones Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 05/28/2026 - 08:52 Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon condemns move as ‘moral disgrace’ as Israel freezes relations with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres An Israeli soldier supervises the transfer of Palestinian men arrested during a military raid on Jenin on the border with the occupied West Bank, on 22 January 2025 (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP) Off Israel has been added to the United Nations’ blacklist for sexual violence in conflict zones, the country’s ambassador to the UN said on Thursday. Danny Danon condemned the decision as “political” and “detached from the facts and from reality”. The move follows multiple reports by human rights organisations and media outlets - including Middle East Eye - documenting allegations of rape and other forms of sexual violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians since October 2023.
Report: UN adds Israel to blacklist for committing sexual violence in conflict zones The United Nations is expected to announce a decision to add Israeli entities to a blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in conflict zones, The Jerusalem Post reported. The Israeli Prison Service is among several entities added to the list, alongside other Israeli authorities, according to the report. Among the entities that have already been placed on the list are the likes of Hamas.
Several cases of settler violence during first day of eid, mother and child beaten Israeli settlers on Wednesday raided a number of areas across the West Bank, beating residents and animals as well as destroying Palestinian properties. One viral video showed an Israeli settler attacking a dog belonging to a Palestinian family in Masafer Yatta, Hebron. Another incident recorded in the same area was of a settler attacking a Palestinian mother and her child, shoving them both to the ground.
Companies are extracting vast troves of online data through unlawful web scraping to build their generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in a way that is enabling a mass invasion of privacy, making these systems unlawful by design, Amnesty International said in a new briefing today. Unlawful by Design: Exposing the Human Rights Costs of Generative AI documents serious risks […] The post Global: Enormous data pipelines powering major generative AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of privacy by design appeared first on Amnesty International .
Shayan Kabiri came to Canada with his family seven years ago. Today, he sees many friends who arrived from Iran alone, hoping to build a more stable future, trapped in a crisis that threatens not only their education but also their mental health and immigration status.
UN raises concern about pattern of Israel killing Gazans near armistice line About a third of Palestinians killed by Israel since the beginning of the ceasefire were near the military’s so-called “buffer zone”, raising concerns that troops are shooting at civilians approaching the area, which would constitute “unlawful killings and thus war crimes”, according to the UN human rights office. “Civilians do not appear to have posed any risk to the life of the Israeli military, including some cases in which they appear to have been shot while carrying out daily activities or having approached or crossed Israel’s so-called yellow line,” said Ajith Sunghay, head of the U. N.
