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Qatari bid for Man Utd should be ‘another wake-up call’ for Premier League

The club’s current owners are looking at the possibility of a sale, with a Qatari consortium said to be interested

The Independent UK

Amnesty: Hundreds of children face protest-related charges

More than 200 children are facing serious criminal charges, including sedition, for their role in the largely peaceful pro-democracy protests that began in 2020, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Hundreds of Thai children facing charges over protests: Amnesty

Bangkok (AFP) - More than 200 children in Thailand are facing serious criminal charges, including sedition, for their role in largely peaceful pro-democracy protests that shook the kingdom in 2020, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

AFP

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Thai children ‘face jail time’ after protest arrests: Amnesty

Rights group says nearly 300 criminal cases filed against defendants who were children at the time of their arrests.

Al Jazeera

Labour MP apologises to Commons after calling Israeli government fascist

Kim Johnson summoned by party’s chief whip amid condemnation of comments during PMQs

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP apologises for describing Israeli government as ‘fascist’

Kim Johnson also said she recognised the use of the term, ‘apartheid state’, was ‘insensitive’.

The Independent UK

Kim Johnson MP apologises in House of Commons for Israel comments

Liverpool Riverside Labour MP labelled the Israeli government "fascist" but later withdrew her remarks

Liverpool Echo

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Labour MP forced to apologise for branding Israeli government 'fascist' in Parliament

Kim Johnson's remark was branded "completely unacceptable" by Keir Starmer's official spokesman, and she is expected to be spoken to by the party's chief whip

Daily Mirror

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

Reports of torture, unfair trials in Iran trigger fresh alarm over fate of protesters

Rights groups warned that several young people, including teenagers who’ve been jailed by Iran for their involvement in anti-government protests, are at risk of being executed and have been tortured.

Tribune News Service

Paris 2024 Olympic security bill could enable use of surveillance using artificial intelligence

The NGO Amnesty International France and some left-wing politicians have expressed concern over the Olympic security bill being debated in the French Senate this week. The text would legalise the use of surveillance based on artificial intelligence systems for the first time, measures that could reach beyond the scope of…

Radio France Internationale

Right-Wing Rings of Power

Lord of the Rings fans from Trump-supporting libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni find archconservative lessons in Middle-earth. Why?

Capital & Main

Lionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo game is sportswashing at ‘full throttle’, Amnesty say

Ronaldo will feature in a Saudi All-Star XI taking on Messi’s PSG in a match in Riyadh on Thursday

The Independent UK

Iran's 'death committee' president unyielding in defence of clerical rule

As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say.

Reuters

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The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: Does the Davos conference really have the answers to the world’s problems?

In today’s newsletter: As the high society conference kicks off in the Swiss Alps, it faces new questions about its influence in a fractured world

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.

AFP

Israeli restrictions on Palestinian flags 'repressive': Amnesty

Jerusalem (AFP) - Bolstered Israeli restrictions against flying the Palestinian flag are "a shameless attempt to legitimise racism", rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.

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Daily Mirror

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 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…

Evening Standard

FIFA 23 mod honours World Cup’s migrant workers with their own football kit

The bright yellow kit is a ‘guerilla’ marketing stunt by Amnesty International to draw attention to Qatar’s treatment of foreign labourers

ABC News

Iranian artist Elham Modaresi being 'tortured' in prison and denied medical care, says sister

In a prison West of Tehran, Iranian artist Elham Modaresi's will to survive is being gradually broken. Her sister says Elham is facing torture and being denied medical care.

The Guardian - UK

Meta faces $1.6bn lawsuit over Facebook posts inciting violence in Tigray war

Legal action backed by Amnesty alleges hateful posts inflaming war in northern Ethiopia were allowed to flourish on platform

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Young Iranians Facing Death Penalty over Protests

A doctor, rap artists and a footballer are among around two dozen Iranians who risk being hanged as Tehran uses capital punishment as an intimidation tactic to quell protests, rights groups say. The executions in the past week of Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, both 23 and the first people…

AFP

The young Iranians facing death penalty over protests

Paris (AFP) - A doctor, rap artists and a footballer are among around two dozen Iranians who risk being hanged as Tehran uses capital punishment as an intimidation tactic to quell protests, rights groups say.

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