JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US

MAHMOUD KHALIL, the former Columbia University student and Palestinian activist who, on March 8, was abruptly arrested and transported to a detention facility in Louisiana, has spoken out for the first time since his ordeal began.
On Tuesday, in a letter dictated over the phone, Khalil described the horrors he has been witnessing daily since being sent to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Louisiana after being unaccounted for in the immediate aftermath of his arrest. So far he has faced no charges.
Describing himself as “a political prisoner,” Khalil said that “I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Waves of protesters are refusing to comply with the latest crackdowns on dissent, but the penalties are higher in Starmer’s Labour Britain than in Trump’s autocratic United States, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Funds are being raised to bring the bombed al-Shifa hospital back from the ashes, reports Linda Pentz Gunter