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[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Former ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda: “Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen asked me to halt investigations related to Palestine, and the pressure later escalated to indirect threats against my family.”

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨🚨BREAKING -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) is pursuing five new arrest warrants for Israeli officials including finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli media reports.

Smotrich's ministry of finance owns an arms factory in Britain named Pearson Engineering, which was recently awarded a £10m contract by the Ministry of Defence.

"A diplomatic source said the other senior officials are settlement minister Orit Struck and two military personnel", according to Haaretz.

It remains unclear who the military personnel are.

The UK government allowed the IDF's former chief of staff Herzi Halevi and its air force commander Tomer Bar to secretly visit Britain amid the Gaza genocide, with the Foreign Office giving them with "special mission" immunity to protect them from prosecution for war crimes.

[Mamane Gondwana @mamaneshow]

"Se débarrasser des archives papier et les remplacer par des archives numériques leur permet de supprimer l’histoire. Un jour, vous trouverez le message « la page n’existe pas », et le lendemain, vous les verrez nier que cela ait réellement eu lieu".
Julian Assange

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Putin and his accomplices in the abduction of Ukrainian children. This is a global case – and it must have global consequences. Everyone who commits crimes against children must truly feel that this is wrong.

Today, we have new sanctions against those who abduct children and try to normalize it. And the pressure on Russia must not ease. Sanctions work. And the world has power. Please use it right.

From an address to the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children (3/3).

[The Girl Who Said Know @GirlWhoSaidKnow]

@zabavausru @docZhibeck Подскажите, как называется?

[Daily Romania @daily_romania]

Ursula von der Leyen tells a man he is lucky to live in the EU, where there is free speech, while he is being arrested for protesting against her

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

You can't make this up.
It's World Press Freedom Day, and these posters are on my doorstep: "Free Press. Protect what matters to us."

The very same @eucouncil literally sanctioned me for exactly that.

This is definitely going to be my campaign poster.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Oh my Gwad 😱😱!!!!

So Michael Jackson wrote a song about Palestine in 1993…
And guess what happened to him that same year!

[JFJustice @JFJustice]

High-stakes interviews this week from ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC and his counsel, Sareta Ashraph.
Khan says due process “can’t be trying to get a particular result.”
Ashraph warns that sidelining judges is “dangerously anti–rule of law.”
Critics say key questions remain unresolved.

Access full interview: https://t.co/fjFwKnEIsc

#ICC #JFJUpdates #RuleofLaw

[The Girl Who Said Know @GirlWhoSaidKnow]

@thermosmrcider @Fyodorrrrr @iliyailineya После фотографии/поста с Линдси Грэмом у меня появились некоторые сомнения в разборчивости и порядочности Кара-Мурзы.

[Hughes-on-the-Wold @NotThatHughes]

Only in America would a shotgun that fits neatly in a school bag be considered a major selling point.

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

Fox's Aishah Hasnie: Karoline Leavitt's husband leaned over and told me right as the WH Correspondents Dinner was starting, "You need to be very safe."

"He was very serious when that said that to me, and he kinda looked around the room and said, 'There are some–'"

*Call drops*

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | "I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me. They were literally saying they would sever my head from my shoulders if I didn’t leave south Lebanon."

In an interview recorded before her targeted killing, Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, from the southern village of Baysariyyeh, reflects on the threats she received while covering Israeli aggression in south Lebanon for Al-Akhbar.

"Before 23 September, I definitely didn’t take precautions and I didn’t pay attention to these threats, because I said if I’m going to do what they want, why would I let the Israeli enemy impose its own narrative on me? It brings journalists onto my land and promotes the narrative it wants, while preventing me from moving freely on my own land."

Amal Khalil, along with her colleague Zeinab Faraj, was deliberately attacked and subsequently killed by Israel yesterday in the southern Lebanese village of Tayri. Zeinab Faraj was severely injured and, as per latest reports, remains in stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery.

[NUS Centre for International Law @NUS_CIL]

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[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Not the point, but someone please inform this candidate to be UN Secretary General that you have the right to drink water.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

Reports indicate that accounts which defend Iran against the US-Israeli imperialist war have been purged from Elon Musk’s X website.

The accounts reportedly suspended include:

* Ali Alizadeh: Iranian analyst (both Farsi and English accounts).

* Alireza Zakani: Mayor of Tehran.

* Mahdi Khanalizadeh: Academic and political commentator.

* Amirhossein Sabeti: Member of the Iranian Parliament.

* Mahdi Rasouli: Well-known eulogist.

* Arya Yadeghaar: An open-source information (OSINT) account.

These suspensions followed other significant platform changes that have been interpreted as a shift in X's stance toward the Iranian government: 

In February 2026, X stripped blue verification badges from numerous Iranian officials and state-linked entities, including Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi and top security official Ali Larijani. This move followed reports that providing paid premium services to sanctioned individuals might violate U.S. economic sanctions.

In January 2026, X officially replaced the Islamic Republic flag emoji with the pre-1979 "Lion and Sun" flag on its web platform. The Lion and Sun is a historical symbol now heavily associated with pro-monarchy groups and the opposition "Pahlavist" movement.

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[The Girl Who Said Know @GirlWhoSaidKnow]

@tparsi @DropSiteNews I find this song by a Palestinian singer very moving: https://t.co/zykruvpFox

[Abubakar Sidiq Usman @MrAbuSidiq]

The fact that Dubai Police could spy on a private WhatsApp conversation of an airline crew member using electronic monitoring operations, which led to an arrest is an indication that there is nothing private in WhatsApp. The end to end encryption claim of Meta is a lie.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Few points:

1- Western governments continue to insist, with ritualistic certainty, that the Strait of Hormuz is an “international waterway” that must be reopened "unconditionally". This absolutist posture reveals a profound failure to absorb the central lesson of the recent US–Israeli war on Iran: when a so-called international waterway is weaponized to launch an existential armed attack against the coastal state whose territory it crosses, the very concept of “unconditional” access becomes legally and morally indefensible.

2- The war has irrevocably altered legal interpretations and the strategic landscape. For the first time in modern history, a major international strait was used not merely for commerce or neutral navigation, but as the primary maritime corridor for a coordinated campaign of aggression - including strikes, logistics, blockades, and overflights aimed at destroying a coastal state’s sovereignty, infrastructure, and leadership. American and Israeli forces treated the Strait as a de facto launchpad and supply line for operations that, under any reading of the UN Charter, constituted an unlawful use of force.

In that context, Iran’s decision to regulate and, where necessary, restrict passage to belligerent-linked vessels was not an arbitrary closure. It was a proportionate exercise of the inherent right of self-defence under Article 51, fully consistent with the coastal state’s sovereign authority over its territorial waters.

3- A decisive factor that further strips the Strait of Hormuz of the very characteristics and rights otherwise attributed to international waterways is the dense network of US military bases stationed in the littoral Arab states encircling the Persian Gulf.

These installations—in Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait—serve no commercial or neutral purpose. They exist explicitly to project power against Iran, to threaten its vital interests, and to enable the very existential military operations witnessed in the recent war. Forward-deployed US aircraft, warships, missile systems, and logistics hubs turn the entire Gulf region—including the Strait itself—into an armed forward-operating zone directed at a single coastal state.

Under international law, an international strait derives its special transit-passage status from its role as a neutral corridor connecting two bodies of high seas or EEZ, used for peaceful international navigation. When one side of that corridor is transformed into a permanent military platform aimed at the destruction of the opposite coastal state, the waterway ceases to function as a “normal” international strait. It becomes instead an extension of a hostile military perimeter.

The presence of these bases fundamentally alters the legal character of the Strait. Unless and until these US military bases are completely removed from the littoral states of the Persian Gulf - and eventually replaced by a local collective security regime that ensures Iran and other every litoral states' security - the Strait of Hormuz cannot be treated as a standard international waterway entitled to unconditional transit passage.

The Western response has been to double down on the fiction of unconditional transit passage. But the recent conflict has exposed the fatal weakness in this outdated and inapplicable doctrine they so aggressively promote.

4- The war therefore demands a fundamental shift in how Western states and the international community conceptualize “international waterways.” Unconditional reopening is no longer credible. Conditions must now be devised and codified to prevent the future misuse of such straits as conduits for existential threats. Such safeguards would not “close” international straits but would preserve the legitimate right of peaceful navigation while closing the loophole that allows aggressors to exploit them.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

France has refused to grant an entry visa to Shawan Jabarin, the director of Al-Haq, one of the leading and oldest Palestinian human rights organizations, based in the occupied West Bank. He was due to appear before the European Parliament in Strasbourg. https://t.co/ipDgndnXoR