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How a Drake concert put NYPD’s ‘arsenal’ of surveillance technologies under the spotlight

Tens of thousands of cameras and facial recognition software police the nation’s largest city and its world-renowned performances halls. Watchdogs and lawmakers are calling on NYPD and billionaire-owned venues to hit pause, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

Iranian protesters sentenced to death were tortured, says Amnesty report

Two teenagers and 31-year-old man were subjected to torture including rape and beatings and denied fair trial, says group

The Guardian - UK

Charities ‘not doing enough’ on eco crisis, paint-throwing activist tells court

Ryan Simmons, 36, threw pink paint at the headquarters of Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Christian Aid and Friends of the Earth in July 2020.

The Independent UK

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South Africa hails friendship with Russia

In tonight's edition: Opposition voices in South Africa and international critics of the Kremlin slam Pretoria's welcoming of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Also, the United Nations, Amnesty International and the European Union call for a prompt and impartial investigation into the killing of a human rights lawyer in Eswatini.…

France 24

Protests after Israeli threats to remove Palestinian village

Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank lies in a corridor that Israel plans to use to link illegal Israeli settlements.

Al Jazeera

Jacinda Ardern's resignation and the toll of burnout and abuse for women leaders

"Jacinda has faced a level of hatred and vitriol which in my experience is unprecedented in our country."

Axios

Faces of condemned as Iranian freedom protesters face execution or death under regime

Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Bambos Charalambous gave just a snapshot of the estimated 18,000 arrested since the Mahsa Amini protests began last September

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Faces of death row: the young men caught up in Iran’s execution spree

Since anti-regime demonstrations erupted following the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, Iranian authorities have executed four young men and sentenced several others to death on charges relating to the protest movement. FRANCE 24 profiles some of the people executed or on death row in Iran’s latest state-sponsored…

France 24

Human rights campaigners hit out at Iran’s execution of Alireza Akbari

Amnesty International UK condemned Iran for having ‘pitifully little respect’ for the right to life.

The Independent UK

Does this video really show children on the front lines of the war in Ukraine?

Is Ukraine sending children to fight on the front lines of the war? That’s what some people on social media are claiming. As proof, they cite a video showing three very young-looking soldiers, which has been circulating online since November 8. It turns out, however, that we could identify two…

France 24

Concern expressed over police strip searching of children

Some 27 children were strip searched by police in Northern Ireland in 2021.

The Independent UK

Qatar interest in Tottenham should be ‘wake-up call’, Premier League warned

A meeting between Daniel Levy and Qatar Sports Investments chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi took place last week

The Independent UK

Premier League told Qatar links to Spurs investment should be a ‘wake-up call’

A meeting between Daniel Levy and Qatar Sports Investments chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi took place last week.

The Independent UK

Australian MPs throw support behind Iranians who are facing execution

Some Australian MPs are publicly backing young Iranians facing the death sentence, hoping the negative publicity for the regime might stave off imminent executions.

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Al Jazeera

Joe Biden visits Mexico ahead of ‘Three Amigos’ summit

Migration, drug trafficking, manufacturing and trade are set to top the agenda of US-Canada-Mexico meetings.

France 24

Iran: Protesters denied medical care and tortured to death in secret prisons

More than 19,000 people have been arrested since protests erupted in Iran in mid-September 2022. Human rights organisations say that dozens of them have been killed in secret detention centres. But security forces are trying to cover up these deaths by threatening family members into silence or staging the deaths…

Al Jazeera

Iranians protest in front of Karaj prison as more executions loom

Protesters gathered in front of a prison in Karaj to stop the execution of two men linked to Iran’s demonstrations.

Daily Mirror

Iran executes two men as brutal crackdown on widespread protests continue

The Iranian government is cracking down on the anti-regime protesters who erupted in civil unrest after morality police fatally beat a 22-year-old Kurdish woman called Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab "improperly"

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Cristiano Ronaldo hit with Amnesty International demand after Saudi Arabia transfer

Cristiano Ronaldo has completed a move to Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr after his much publicised Manchester United departure and subsequent struggles at the 2022 World Cup with Portugal

The Guardian - UK

Amnesty urges Ronaldo to speak out over human rights in Saudi Arabia

Amnesty International has said Ronaldo’s move to Al-Nassr follows a wider pattern of sportswashing by Saudi Arabia

Daily Mirror

Mum stuck in Iran jail for 13 years shares letter from inside 'hell-like' prison

As she enters her 14th year in jail in Iran, Maryam Akbari Monfared has shared a letter while also celebrating the protests that have spread throughout Iran while she has been incarcerated

The Guardian - UK

Welsh first minister criticised for ‘lavish’ World Cup hotel stay paid by Qatar

Mark Drakeford and economy minister Vaughan Gething were guests of host nation at five-star Ritz-Carlton

ABC News

Many women's rights were taken away in 2022, but global feminist solidarity is on the rise

Looking back on 2022, women's rights regressed in many areas, but experts and advocates remain hopeful as a wave of feminist solidarity sweeps the globe and young people risk their lives to say, "Enough is enough."

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Protests: Regime Challenged by Push for Change

More than 100 days of protests in Iran have shattered taboos and shaken the ideological pillars of the Iranian republic in a push for change that has defied a fierce crackdown. The demonstrations, which erupted in mid-September following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, are a reflection of…

The Conversation

Is there a 'right to disobey’? From the Vietnam War to today's climate protests

One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labour government in December 1972 was to free seven men imprisoned for their beliefs. Their crime had been refusal to comply with the National Service Act, a so-called “lottery of death” that sent some 15,300 young Australians to fight in…

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