Iran vows to avenge killing of Hamas political leader Haniyeh
What does Haniyeh's killing say about Iranian security?
Kasra Naji
Special correspondent, BBC Persian
Iran says Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard were killed at a guest house in northern Tehran at 02:00 local time, in the early hours of Wednesday, by a missile that had been fired from beyond Iran’s borders.
The attack brings Iran’s security agencies under question and their control over Israeli actions of this sort inside Iran.
Israel has assassinated a string of Iranian nuclear scientists over the last decade or so, but never has it targeted a dignitary or a prominent Iranian political leader.
Three years ago the former intelligence minister, Ali Yunessi, said the Israeli infiltration is so deep in Iran that all officials should fear for their lives.
Summary
Iran vows to avenge the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who died in an overnight air strike in Tehran, according to Iranian media
Hamas and Iran blame Israel for the strike - Israel hasn’t commented but has previously vowed to eliminate the group’s leaders. Haniyeh, 62, is the most senior leader to be killed since the 7 October attacks
Iran - Hamas’s most important backer - declares three days of mourning and promises “harsh punishment” against Israel
The killing, hours after an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, heightens fears of wider conflict in the Middle East
Haniyeh’s death could also delay efforts to bring a ceasefire in Gaza, as he was a key player in negotiations
Guinea court awaits verdict on stadium massacre trial
Former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara accused of deadly crackdown on thousands of unarmed protesters in 2009
A Guinean court is expected to deliver a long-awaited verdict in the trial of the former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara over a massacre and mass rape in September 2009, despite impending protests and a lawyers’ strike.
Camara is accused with 10 others of ordering a crackdown on thousands of unarmed protesters who were aggrieved that he had decided to stand for election the following year.
Palestinians detained by Israel faced torture — UN report
The UN Human Rights Office has released a report detailing incidents of torture and mistreatment. UN rights chief Volker Türk said there were a "range of appalling acts" in violation of international humanitarian law.
Thousands of Palestinians have been detained by Israel in violation of international human rights and humanitarian law, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
In a report, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights highlights arbitrary, prolonged, and, in some cases, secret detention of Palestinians since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel.
The report also includes allegations of torture and other degrading treatment, including sexual abuse of both women and men.
Kremlin critic Kara-Murza disappears from Russian jails, fuelling prisoner swap rumours
Prominent Russian opposition figure and dual British national Vladimir Kara-Murza has “disappeared” from Russian prisons along with jailed US national Paul Whelan, according to lawyers and rights activists. Reports of the two prisoners being moved from Russian jails to unknown locations have fuelled rumours of a likely prisoner swap between Russia and Western countries.
Lawyers representing jailed Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza said Wednesday that they did not know the dissident's exact location after twice being denied access to the facility where he was supposed to be held.
Rumours are swirling of an upcoming prisoner swap involving Russia and Western countries as numerous high-profile prisoners, including foreigners, have gone missing from Russian prisons where they are serving long terms, in recent days.
"Today a lawyer for Vladimir Kara-Murza for a second day running was not allowed to visit him in a prison hospital. The exact location of the political prisoner is unknown," his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov wrote on Facebook.
Italian author reflects on harsh internment in Japan in WWII
By KAYOKO SEKIGUCHI/ Staff Writer
A renowned Italian author visited Japan to recount her childhood experiences of being interned as an “enemy national” 80 years ago, in the hopes that her dark memories can encourage brighter futures.
“People become sadistic when they gain absolute power over others. This isn’t limited to the military,” said Dacia Maraini, 87, at a gathering in Tokyo on June 12.
During the Asia-Pacific War, Japan forcibly sent around 1,200 civilians from Allied countries and others to roughly 60 internment camps across the country.
Al Jazeera journalist, cameraman killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Refee killed in Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Refee have been killed in an Israeli air attack on the Gaza Strip.
The reporters were killed on Wednesday in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to initial information.
They were in the area to report from near the Gaza house of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas who was assassinated in the early hours of Wednesday in Iran’s capital, Tehran, in an attack the group has blamed on Israel.
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