TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said two violating oil tankers were struck and brought to a halt in the Strait of Hormuz after attempting to transit through an unauthorized route, adding that four other tankers quickly turned back.
Tehran's prosecutor has launched legal action against an unspecified number of people for opposing the execution of detainees arrested during the January protests and defendants convicted in cases linked to the recent war, Iran's judiciary news outlet Mizan reported on Thursday.
Tehran [Iran], July 31 (ANI): Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has destroyed two drone hangars, along with a fuel storage facility designated for military aircraft and helicopters, at the US-operated Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait, according to a statement reported by Iranian state-owned media.
Opinion: Ben Gvir's crocodiles are the latest weapon in Israel's animal warfare on Palestinians Earlier this month, Israel 's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced that Israel would use Nile crocodiles as prison guards for Palestinian political prisoners. The programme will begin at Ketziot Prison, Israel's largest, in the Naqab (Negev) desert. The prison served as a concentration camp where thousands of Palestinians were incarcerated between 1988 and 1995 during the First Intifada.
The United States is an outlier in the West. We look at why the country clings to the death penalty.
Ben Gvir's crocodiles are the latest weapon in Israel's animal warfare on Palestinians Submitted by Joseph Massad on Thu, 07/30/2026 - 17:34 From Herzl's colonial writings to attack dogs, wild boars and crocodile-moat prisons, animals have long been enlisted in the Zionist project to terrorise Palestinians Dozens of crocodiles lie stranded at an abandoned farm near the illegal Israeli settlement of Petzael in the occupied Jordan Valley on 18 January 2021 (Menahem Kahana/AFP) Off Earlier this month, Israel 's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced that Israel would use Nile crocodiles as prison guards for Palestinian political prisoners. The programme will begin at Ketziot Prison, Israel's largest, in the Naqab (Negev) desert. The prison served as a concentration camp where thousands of Palestinians were incarcerated between 1988 and 1995 during the First Intifada.
In response to the constitutional reform initiative put forward by the Nicaraguan authorities to extend the presidential term and permanently exclude from electoral processes people labelled by the government as “traitors” or “coup plotters”, Amnesty International warns that these measures represent a further step in dismantling the right of Nicaraguans to participate in the public […] The post Nicaragua: Constitutional reform seeks to dismantle the right to participate in public affairs appeared first on Amnesty International .
Supreme Court will allow appeal hearing over Palestine Action ban The co-founder of Palestine Action has been granted permission to challenge the Home Office's decision to ban the direct action group as a terrorist organisation. The UK proscribed the group in July 2025 and since then its co-founder Huda Ammori has fought to overturn the decision. In June, the Court of Appeal quashed a High Court ruling which found the ban to be unlawful.
In the quiet hours of Wednesday morning, municipal crews swept through Sanaei Street in central Tehran with sledgehammers, reducing sidewalk planters, benches, and concrete borders outside local cafes to rubble.
‘I am dying slowly’: Gaza professor blocked from cancer treatment by Israel’s siege Submitted by Maha Hussaini on Thu, 07/30/2026 - 11:14 Israel’s restrictions on medicines and medical evacuations leave thousands of cancer patients without life-saving treatment Kholoud Abu Sahmoud says she is slowly dying from cancer as Israel continues to severely restrict medical evacuations (Hani Abu Rezeq/Middle East Eye) Off In a cramped space beneath the staircase of a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza, university professor Kholoud Abu Sahmoud is slowly losing her battle with cancer. After 15 rounds of chemotherapy, the 33-year-old Palestinian mother of two was told she could no longer continue treatment because the drugs available in the war-ravaged enclave were not suitable for her type of cancer. “I was first diagnosed with liver cancer immediately after giving birth to my daughter, about nine months ago.
Three prominent political prisoners held in Tehran's Evin prison issued a joint statement accusing the establishment of using regional war as a cover to escalate domestic repression and attempt to rebuild its lost authority through executions.
Iranian security agents allegedly cut away skin bearing tattoos of Reza Shah and an imperial crown before killing a 21-year-old protester before later shooting him dead, according to sources close to his family.
Ahmed al-Doush has been in jail in Saudi Arabia since 2024, apparently over a handful of social media posts dating back several years.
New York [US], July 30 (ANI): A 28-year-old man has been convicted in a federal terrorism prosecution stemming from the 2022 stabbing of acclaimed author Salman Rushdie, the United States Department of Justice announced.
Photo of Israeli soldiers posing next to blindfolded Palestinian fuels anger online A viral photo of two Israeli soldiers posing next to a blindfolded Palestinian has sparked widespread anger online. The image was shared on Tuesday among a series of photos on the personal Instagram account of Nikol Stelmashvski, an Israeli who appears to have recently completed her military service. It shows two female soldiers smiling while posing next to an unidentified young Palestinian who is sitting on the ground with his head down.
Photo of Israeli soldiers posing next to blindfolded Palestinian fuels anger online Submitted by Dalia Anis on Wed, 07/29/2026 - 13:05 The Israeli army 'revel in depravity and no one is holding Israel to account', said one social media user Viral photo shows two female Israeli soldiers posing next to a blindfolded young Palestinian (Screengrab/Instagram/@nikol. stel) Off A viral photo of two Israeli soldiers posing next to a blindfolded Palestinian has sparked widespread anger online. The image was shared on Tuesday among a series of photos on the personal Instagram account of Nikol Stelmashvski, an Israeli who appears to have recently completed her military service .
Amnesty International joins the call from the Guerreras por la Amazonía (GxA, Women Warriors for the Amazon), who, five years after securing a landmark ruling requiring Ecuador to eliminate oil industry gas flares located near populated areas and provide reparations to affected communities, continue to demand its full implementation. “Over the past five years, the […] The post Ecuador: Guerreras por la Amazonía demand the elimination of gas flares five years after landmark ruling appeared first on Amnesty International .
Violence in the occupied West Bank is worsening as the Israeli Government continues to approve new settlements, while settlers and Israeli security forces have “often” acted together to attack local Palestinian communities, the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) warned on Wednesday.
Shell must answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta after internal company documents revealed broken rules, failing infrastructure and unresolved clean-up costs that risk leaving affected communities to pay the price, a coalition of human rights and environmental organisations, including Amnesty International, said today in a new report. The report, Nigeria: Lifting the […] The post Nigeria: Shell documents expose ‘basket’ pipeline, ‘missing’ wells and US$10. 9bn decommissioning costs as pollution scandal grows appeared first on Amnesty International .
Human rights activists say the Iranian government has been rapidly escalating executions. The latest prompted public protest, videos appear to show.
