Headlines- After issuing warnings, Iranian forces turned back two tankers that were trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, citing the ongoing US maritime blockade as the reason.
- Iran claimed that since the war with the US and Israel started on February 28, over 3,400 people had died.
- On Saturday night, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran threatened to strike any ship that approached the Strait of Hormuz.
- India's Ministry of External Affairs called the Iranian ambassador to India to discuss the "serious incident" involving two Indian-flagged ships that were fired upon on Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Iran said that it is examining fresh U.S. proposals that were communicated through Pakistan's mediators, but it has not yet responded.
- Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem vowed on Saturday that his fighters would retaliate against Israeli attacks on Lebanon and stated that the current 10-day ceasefire with Israel cannot be one-sided.
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Detained Chinese Dissident Artist ‘Critically Ill’...
Liu Jinxing — who is better known by his artist name Zhui Hun — was detained by Nanjing police in late May 2019 alongside five other prominent and outspoken artists who had exhibits in the city at the same time
China Scholar Xu to Sue to...
According to sources close the professor, Xu completely denies the police allegation against him of soliciting a prostitute – a charge that emerged after Xu had published a series of articles and open letters critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its supreme leader Xi Jinping.
China Jails Rights Lawyer Yu Wensheng...
Yu’s wife Xu Yan was informed in a phone call from the Xuzhou City Procuratorate on June 17after the verdict was read behind closed doors the same morning.
Petition Calls For Activist To Be...
Pu has repeatedly called for a last meeting with Huang, who suffers from kidney failure and coronary heart disease, among other things. But the authorities have refused to allow even a final phone call
Tibetan Monk Gets Three-Year Prison Term...
Lobsang Dorje, 36, was taken from his room in Ngaba county’s Kirti monastery by police in July 2018, and was incommunicado until now, Kanyag Tsering—a monk at Kirti’s branch monastery in India—told RFA’s Tibetan Service on Thursday