According to state media reports, a bus overturned in the south of Iran left at least 21 people dead.
34 other people were hurt in the accident on Saturday south of Shiraz, the provincial capital, according to Masoud Abed, the head of Fars province’s emergency organization.
After the operation is finished and thorough investigations have been conducted, Abed stated that rescue operations are still ongoing, and that additional details and final figures will be made public.
Democrats in Congress who witnessed the opening of Florida’s new immigration detention facility, Alligator Alcatraz, reported seeing dozens of people squabbling for help in metal enclosures, bugs and mosquitoes in bunk areas, and high temperatures above 80 degrees inside.
Republicans who also toured the facility tell a different story, describing the space as safe, clean and well-run. The state-run Alligator Alcatraz’s description of the conditions at the state-run facility has been called “false by the federal Homeland Security Department,” which regulates immigration detention.
During a July 13 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem was questioned about Democrats’ accounts. She said the Florida-run facility is “held to the highest levels of what the federal government requires for detention facilities”.
Noem claimed that “our detention facilities at the federal level are held to a higher standard than the majority of our local or state centers or even federal prisons.” The requirements are “extremely high.”
White House border tsar Tom Homan also touted the nation’s immigration detention standards as being a cut above those for prisons and jails.
Homan defended federal facilities when a reporter inquired about a 75-year-old Cuban man who had spent 60 years living in the US before passing away in Miami in June.
He continued, “People die in immigration and customs enforcement] custody,” before claiming that ICE has “the highest detention standards in the industry.” I’ll compare an ICE detention facility against any state prison against any federal facility. Any of them will have me compete. People complain that the detention facilities are “horrible.” Go look for yourself then come back and talk to me”.
Nearly six months into Trump’s second term, Isidro Perez was the 11th person to pass away in ICE custody. During his final year in office, former president Joe Biden passed away in 12 deaths.
ICE detention centres have standards akin to prisons. For a few reasons, it’s difficult to compare blanket judgments about the standards of immigration detention to those in state, local, or other federal facilities.
It’s challenging to enforce ICE detention standards because they aren’t legally codified.
Different ICE detention centres are upheld to different standards based on the terms of their individual contracts.
There are no set of guidelines for local, state, and federal prisons and jails. Some standards must be codified into law, while others are not.
Several government watchdog agencies, advocacy organisations and news reports have long documented inadequate conditions at immigration detention centres.
At an El Paso detention center, the human rights organization Amnesty International reported “physical abuse by guards, use of solitary confinement, unsanitary and overcrowded living conditions, including dysfunctional toilets, insufficient medical care, and poor-quality, expired food.”
Homan’s statement was described as “very misleading,” according to Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, an associate professor at Duke University who studies the health effects of the criminal justice system.
“In most respects, ICE facilities operate with less consistent oversight and legal accountability than state or federal prisons or local jails”, Brinkley-Rubinstein said. “ICE detention facilities and the people who run them generally have a much lower level of transparency about their operations.”
Detention standards are established by ICE, but they are not standardized or widely used.
Several federal agencies and private companies run immigration detention facilities. All of its detention centers are required to adhere to standards set by ICE, the main organization charged with detained immigration.
For instance, facilities must have potable water and be sanitary. Detainees must have access to medical and mental healthcare, including getting prescription medications. Only when necessary and reasonable circumstances call for physical force, not as punishment. Additionally, attorneys must be able to speak with detainees in secret.
There are different sets of standards for facilities that hold immigrant detainees and other non-immigration-related detainees, such as local prisons, and for facilities that exclusively hold immigrants.
According to University of Michigan law professor Margo Schlanger, the standards for centers that also house non-immigrant detainees were based on “the most stripped down version of jail standards” and were based on “jail standards in use by many jails.”
What standards does Alligator Alcatraz adhere to, it’s unclear. The centre is state-run even though courts have repeatedly held that immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility. However, an ICE official, Thomas P. Giles, claimed in a court declaration that the agency had “toured the facility to ensure compliance with ICE detention standards.”
There is no timing coordination between updates to ICE standards and those to other facilities, even though both sets of immigration standards are periodically updated. Standards are individually negotiated and implemented in separate contracts leading “to varying degrees of protection across detention facilities”, a 2021 Harvard Law Review article about immigration detention said.
Detention standards are difficult to enforce because they are not codified into law. One immigration expert claimed that because the industry is largely self-regulated, detainees’ complaints about the facilities’ conditions have little legal backing.
“Standards are often merely guidelines and largely unenforceable. They are stiff and frail, according to Mount Holyoke College professor David Hernández, who has a background in detention and deportation policy. “Very few facilities lose their contracts because detainees die or other things go wrong.”
Government watchdogs, nonprofit organisation, news reports detail inadequate conditions at detention centres
Detention centers are largely governed by the Homeland Security Department’s responsibility for ensuring compliance with ICE standards. Government watchdog organizations and advocacy groups have questioned the viability of these investigations for years, citing a number of instances of facilities breaking ICE standards.
In 2020, Congress created the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman to conduct unauthorised investigations of detention centres and to allow immigrants to file individual complaints for the office to review.
The Trump administration attempted to close the office in March. The administration was sued by a civil rights organization. In response, DHS said in a declaration that the office would stay open but with a smaller staff. According to immigration experts, this decision severely limits the control of detention facilities.
Overcrowding and inadequate immigration detention conditions have been raised by news outlets and advocacy groups. The Trump administration is currently detaining , about 60, 000 people – , that’s 20, 000 more people than it has , congressional funding , to detain.
According to the external reports, detainees in various locations are denied medical attention, put in solitary confinement after complaining about conditions, denied legal assistance, and targeted because they are Venezuelan. Stacy Brustin, a professor of immigration law at Catholic University, called these “mirror accounts” that she and her students had witnessed while visiting various detention facilities.
“We heard shocking descriptions of overcrowding, sewage leaks, inoperable toilets, water running down cell block walls, insufficient access to water, spoiled or inedible food, inability to move freely in cell blocks for prolonged periods, and substandard medical care for individuals with serious, life-threatening conditions”, Brustin said. These conditions go against ICE detention guidelines.
For instance, according to ICE standards, facilities must offer detainees “a nutritionally balanced diet that is prepared and presented in a sanitary and hygienic manner.” Spoiled food is a violation.
differences between prison and ICE detention
Some states have codified requirements for the detention facilities, while others do not. Some facilities are accredited by the American Correctional Association, which has its own set of , standards.
The 8th Amendment, which forbids “cruel and unusual punishments” in criminal cases, and the 14th Amendment, which protects people from being denied “life, liberty, or property, without a due process of law, must be adhered to by all facilities in the US Constitution. Additionally, prisoners’ access to religious facilities, prisoners’ rights to privacy, and people with disabilities must abide by federal laws governing sexual violence and prisoners’ rights.
“Courts have ruled that people who are incarcerated in these facilities have the right to care, safety, and humane treatment”, Brinkley-Rubinstein said.
Prison and jail standards typically include provisions similar to those for immigration detention, such as having access to legal and medical facilities, and other requirements.
Depending on the facility, oversight practices also vary. Some places are subject to independent oversight, others rely only on internal oversight.
Prisons and jails that don’t uphold standards also have a variety of consequences.
According to Andrea Armstrong, a professor and expert on prison conditions at Loyola University New Orleans, “the judge may require regular reports, appoint an independent monitor, a manager, or even a receiver to operate all aspects of the facility.”
Some places may lose their contracts depending on the severity of the situation, Schlanger said. Facilities may be subject to legal action in other circumstances.
Immigration laws apply to legal requests from immigrants who contend that detention facilities don’t uphold their standards. That’s because immigration detention is a civil rather than criminal form of detention.
According to security sources and local authorities, a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was killed and another injured in an unidentified drone attack close to Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq.
The PKK’s first major military offensive in a few months, which came at the same time as the PKK put an end to its armed campaign against the Turkish state, marked the beginning of its march toward disarmament.
According to Iraqi outlet The New Region, the drone attack struck a motorcycle in the area.
Hemin Ibrahim, the mayor of Penjwen, confirmed that the drone shot two people inside a border village in the district, killing one, according to Kurdistan24.
When they were targeted, the two people were riding motorcycles. He told the news outlet that one of them died and the other got hurt.
The strike started on Saturday morning, Ibrahim informed Kurdistan24.
No organization or nation has so far apologised for the attack.
20 to 30 PKK fighters destroyed their weapons in Sulaimaniyah, in northern Kurdistan, last Friday, instead of giving them to any government or authority.
The symbolic process is expected to continue throughout the summer while being conducted in close quarters.
After 40 years of fighting, the PKK announced in May that it would stop fighting with its armed forces in May.
The Kurdish organization has been labeled as “terrorists” by Turkiye, the European Union, and the United States for the majority of its history.
Between 1984 and 2024, more than 40, 000 people died as a result of fighting, with thousands of Kurds escaping the violence in southeast Turkiye into northern cities.
The disarmament process is praised by Turkiye’s leaders, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan claiming that it was an “important step toward our goal of a terror-free Turkiye.”
New Delhi, India – Punjabi actor Diljit Dosanjh is on a mission to bring his highest-grossing film to the top of his chart-topping career.
“Sardaar Ji 3”, the latest horror-comedy by Dosanjh, one of Asia’s most bankable artists, has been shattering records abroad. However, the movie hasn’t been released in his own home country, India, and is still restricted to more than one billion people.
A political and cultural conflict involving the nationality of his film’s co-star, Pakistani actor Hania Amir, has tarnished Dosanjh and his most recent film, which was released worldwide on June 27.
Last year, Dosanjh sold out arenas in the US, Canada, and across Europe during his Dil-Luminati world tour. He walked down the Met Gala carpet in a recognizable turban and became the first Indian artist to perform at the Californian Coachella festival. As both a crowd-pleaser and a critical favorite, Dosanjh has also created a special niche in Bollywood.
But at home, he is now facing calls for a boycott and the impounding of his passport. However, this is a part of a growing pattern of censorship and an attempt to censor the country’s artistic freedom, according to film critics and political analysts in response to the nationalists’ demands.
Why, then, does India block one of its most popular artists’ output?
Diljit Dosanjh performs at the Sahara tent during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 15, 2023, in Indio, California]Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella via AFP]
What makes Dosanjh’s most recent film controversial?
A well-known Punjabi duo Dosanjh and Neeru Bajwa play the lead roles in Sardaar Ji 3, the third installment of the well-known horror-comedy series starring Amar Hundal, along with Pakistan’s Hania Aamir.
Shortly after the film’s production was wrapped in April this year, suspected rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir’s resort town of Pahalgam killed 26 people, all but one of them tourists.
Islamabad denied involvement, but New Delhi immediately blammed Pakistan, which it claimed had supported the deadly “terrorist attack.” The two nations will host a four-day conflict, which will be the most extensive between the nuclear-armed neighbors in a decade.
When Dosanjh released the trailer for his upcoming film last month, the casting of Aamir took many by surprise – and prompted outrage.
Why is Sadaar Ji 3 being blocked by the Indian government?
The movie has not been released in Indian theaters and has not received certification from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in India.
The Indian government also “geoblocked” (restricted online access to) the film’s trailer in India, however, the teaser and film’s album, which do not include shots of Aamir, remain accessible.
The Indian government quickly launched a number of digital crackdowns following the April attack in Kashmir. For this, thousands of Pakistani social media accounts were blocked on platforms like Instagram and X (previously Twitter), including the  accounts of celebrities like Aamir, Fawad Khan, and Mahira Khan.
The government, which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also blocked access to the social media accounts of Pakistani journalists and news outlets in India.
On May 8, the government issued an advisory urging all digital intermediaries, streaming services, and video platforms to immediately remove Pakistani-origin entertainment content, including podcasts, web series, movies, and other media.
Additionally, the government imposed a ban on 16 well-known Pakistani YouTube channels, including Geo News, ARY News, and Samaa TV, for allegedly diffusing information and content that disparages India’s armed forces and sovereignty, on top of which there are more than 63 million subscribers.
Rahul Desai, a Mumbai-based film and TV critic, said blocking access to films over casting choices has become “an excuse to antagonise Pakistan” under the current government.
He told Al Jazeera, “It’s a vicious cycle because a lot of the cinema is influenced by pro-establishment decisions in India.”
“This has evolved into a very nice forum where people can vent against Pakistan,” according to Cricket.
Today, the reality-based creative boundaries in India are neat, Desai said: “Do not cast artists from the other side of the border, and a lot of filmmakers self-censor themselves”.
On May 5, 2025, Diljit Dosanjh attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” a 2025 Costume Institute Benefit [Taylor Hill/Getty Images] in New York City, United States.
Are there regular cross-border artistic collaborations?
Yes, they are. Pakistani actors are prohibited from working in India, so they must be on locations abroad where they are photographed.
At least ten or two of Pakistan’s film departments’ music departments were active in Indian cinema at the beginning of the 2000s, according to Desai. The release of the curated music show franchise, Coke Studio Pakistan, which had 15 seasons from 2008 to 2024, was almost “like a cultural moment in India”, he added.
However, there have been numerous instances of cross-border collaborations of artists over the past 20 years, despite the South Asian neighbors’ political tensions.
The situation is even more complicated for Punjabi music and film industries.
The partition of British India, which resulted in the creation of Pakistan with borders drawn overnight, cuts through Punjab, and millions on each side share culture and linguistic ties.
Due to growing demands, especially with regard to the upcoming Chal Mera Putt 4, successful Punjabi franchises like Chal Mera Putt, which are known for their Pakistani cast, are facing uncertainty.
Desai remarked, “There is obviously a lot of bullying by the establishment about casting Pakistani actors.” “There’s a lot of banning and trolling involved. Such choices cause a lot of stress and anxiety.
What are Indian film critics’ opinions of Sadaar Ji 3?
Indian film associations, particularly the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) and the All Indian Cine Workers Association (AICWA), have voiced strong objections to the casting of Aamir in Dosanjh’s Sardaar Ji 3.
The collaboration was referred to as a “betrayal of the nation” by FWICE, which was led by President BN Tiwari. In India, it demanded a total ban on the movie.
The body also issued appeals to India’s CBFC to withhold certification for Sardaar Ji 3 and emphasised noncooperation with Pakistani artists.
AICWA echoed these sentiments, calling for a widespread boycott of Dosanjh across the industry, including by music companies and event organisers, and criticizing the film’s producers for placing Pakistani talent before Indian talent.
The Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association’s president, Ashoke Pandit, stated in a statement to a local newspaper: “We are going to take action and tell the producers not to work with [Dosanjh].”
” He should be fully boycotted in the country by music labels and the Punjabi film industry. “Diljit is a compulsive Pakistani lover.
However, Ira Bhaskar, a former member of the CBFC Board and retired professor of film studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, said this incident is more indicative of the institutions in India and Pakistan than a deeper division between the two nations.
” The Indian government]since Modi came to power] has not only understood the power of mass media, especially cinema, but is invested in taking control of the narratives that circulate in the public domain, “Bhaskar said.
On April 22, 2023, Diljit Dosanjh performs at the Sahara tent in Indio, California. [Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella via AFP]
What has Dosanjh said about the controversy surrounding Sadaar Ji 3?
Dosanjh told BBC Asian Network earlier this month:” When this film was made, everything was fine.
“We shot it in February, and things were fine then. The singer-actor referred to the Kashmir attack and the subsequent conflict as the result of a number of significant events that were beyond our control.
“So the producers decided that the film obviously won’t be released in India now, so they’ll release it overseas. No such thing was happening when the movie was being made, according to Dosanjh, who said the producers had invested a lot of money.
How popular is Sardaar Ji 3 globally?
Dosanjh told the BBC that the film’s producers were aware of the potential financial loss from pulling out of a territory like India, the world’s most populous country. Sadaar Ji 2, the previous movie in the franchise, earned almost $3 million domestically.
Dosanjh has continued to promote his film on his social media accounts, including sharing images from sold-out Pakistani theaters, breaking records for Indian releases. Globally, the film has taken $7m at the box office, against a budget of $4m. It is the highest-grossing Indian film in Pakistan so far, earning $1.4 million.
The critic Desai said in India that “censorship extends far beyond casting… It extends the themes of the stories that people are currently permitted to tell in India.”
Spectators watch Diljit Dosanjh perform onstage at the Coachella Valley Music &, Arts Festival in Indio, California, US, April 22, 2023]Aude Guerrucci/Reuters]
Do any other Dosanjh’s publications still have issues?
Yes . The release of Dosanjh’s film, Panjab ‘ 95, directed by Honey Trehan in 2022, has stalled, primarily because of stringent demands from India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), which has delayed its clearance since the project was submitted in December 2022.
In addition to removing references to political figures, documented human rights violations, and the protagonist’s name, 120 suggested cuts were made to the biographical drama about the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who exposed 25, 0000 extrajudicial killings and disappearances of Sikhs in Punjab during the 1980s and 1990s.
Trehan stated to Al Jazeera, “The CBFC was established as an independent body, which could protect artists, so that the government shouldn’t influence the art… [but] the government is arm-twisting filmmakers and their films.”
Desai, the critic who watched Panjab ‘ 95 in a private screening, told Al Jazeera: “It’s such a well-made film that it might incite a sense of revolution among people today, especially people who are not happy with the establishment. So we can see where a lot of insecurity is coming from.
More than 20 people were hurt when a vehicle was driven into a crowd of people in East Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department in California, United States.
According to the department’s report from Saturday, up to five people are in critical condition, eight to ten are said to be in serious condition, and 10 to 10 are described as fair.
Santa Monica Boulevard was the location of the incident.
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Nadiya, a child of the murderers and rapists, was able to escape in Kyiv, Ukraine, only to find herself hidden in a haystack amid the bloodshed, shouting, and shooting that occurred 82 years ago.
The 94-year-old woman told Al Jazeera, and asked to keep her last name and personal information, and said, “He covered me with hay and told me not to get out no matter what.”
On July 11, 1943, members of the nationalist paramilitary group UiA stormed Nadiya’s village near the Polish-Ukrainian border, killing ethnic Polish men and raping women.
Anyone who attempted to defend the Poles was also killed, according to Nadiya.
Although the nonagenarian is frail and rarely goes out, her face sparkles when she recalls her grand- and great-grandchildren’s names and birthdays.
Even though her parents never discussed the now-dubbed Volyn massacre, she also recalls the names of her neighbors who were murdered or forced to flee to Poland.
Nadiya criticized the UIA, which continued to fight the Soviets until the early 1950s, by saying, “The Soviets forbade it.”
Nadiya claimed that her account may rile Ukrainian nationalists who criticize UIA fighters for supporting Russian independence in World War II.
The UIA leaders made their decision after communist purges, violent atheism, forced collectivism, and a famine that claimed the lives of millions of Ukrainians. They backed Nazi Germany, which occupied the USSR in 1941.
However, the Nazis ultimately refused to annex Ukraine and toppled Stepan Bandera, one of the UIA’s leaders, into a concentration camp.
Roman Shukhevych, a top UIA leader, was charged with involvement in the Holocaust and the massive ethnic Pole massacres in 1943’s western Ukrainian region of Volyn and adjacent areas.
On the 82nd anniversary of the Volyn massacre, which took place in Krakow, Poland, on July 11, 2025.
Genocide?
According to survivors, Polish historians, and officials who consider the Volyn massacre to be a “genocide,” up to 100 000 civilian Poles, including women and children, were stabbed, axed, beaten, or burned to death.
The Polish Institute of National Memory’s Robert Derevenda stated to Polskie Radio on July 11 that “what’s horrifying isn’t the numbers but the way the murders were carried out.”
In honor of the 1943 murders, the Polish parliament designated July 11 as “The Volyn Massacre Day.”
The bill stated that “a martyr’s death for being Polish deserves to be commemorated.”
Poland is fully entitled to commemorate this tragedy, according to Kyiv-based analyst Igar Tyshkevych, according to Al Jazeera. “From Poland’s point of view, yes, this is a tragedy of the Polish people,” Tyshkevych said.
However, he said, right-wing Polish politicians may use the day to promote anti-Ukrainian narratives, and Kyiv’s harsh response could increase tensions.
He continued, “Ideally, historians and not politicians should be the subject of discussion during all of these processes.”
The Volyn massacre is referred to as a “tragedy” by Ukrainian politicians and historians. They accuse the Polish army of killing tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians in response to a lower death toll.
Bandera and Shukhevych, UIA leaders, have frequently been hailed as national heroes in post-Soviet Ukraine, and hundreds of streets, squares, and other landmarks have been given their names.
On November 11, 2024, in Warsaw, Poland, a banner containing text referring to the Polish victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was displayed.
changing political and viewpoints
Vyacheslav Likhachyov, a Kyiv-based human rights advocate, called “banderite” any proponent of Ukraine’s independence or even any ordinary person who fought for the legitimacy of the public’s representation of Ukrainian culture.
When many supporters of Ukraine’s independence started to understand Bandera and the UIA, he claimed, “turning a blind eye to their radicalism, xenophobia, and political violence.”
Despite objections from many Ukrainians, particularly in the eastern and southern regions, anti-Russian Ukrainian leaders began to celebrate the UIA in the 2000s.
According to Likhachyov, the UIA is seen today through a somewhat myopic lens of Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia.
According to Nikolay Mitrokhin, a researcher at Bremen University in Germany, the political elite of Ukraine views the Volyn massacre and armed fighting between Ukrainians and Poles as only “a war related to the Ukrainians’ fight for their land.”
A village, where the majority of the population is on the enemy’s side, is regarded as a “legitimate target” according to the sayings of war, which any village can experience.
On January 1, 2025, in Lviv, Ukraine, people gather to pay tribute to Stepan Bandera at his 116th birthday.
Many Ukrainian young people with right-leaning backgrounds “fully accepted” Bandera’s radicalism and the militant nationalism, he claimed.
Before Russia’s massive invasion in 2022, thousands of far-right nationalists gathered in every Ukrainian town to honor Bandera’s birth anniversary on January 1.
They chanted, “Bandera is our father, Ukraine is our mother,” in response.
The Polish and Israeli embassies issued protest declarations in response, reminding them of the UIA’s involvement in the Volyn massacre and the Holocaust.
In 2014, far-right activists enlisted in large numbers in 2022 to fight separatists opposed to Moscow-backed separatists in southeast Ukraine.
There is no room for reflection and self-analysis in Ukraine’s “social threat” to its very existence, according to rights advocate Likhachyov.
Meanwhile, he said Warsaw will continue to call for concessions after the Volyn massacre and threaten to oppose Ukraine’s annexation of the European Union.
According to analyst Tyshkevych, Moscow “traditionally plays” the conflict to bring about division between Kyiv and Warsaw and accuse Ukrainian leaders of “neo-Nazi” tendencies.
During the Ukrainian defenders’ commemoration ceremony on October 1, 2023 in Lviv, Ukraine, veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) display flags near the grave of the unidentified soldier in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) [Les Kasyanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images]
Can there be reconciliation?
The Volyn massacre’s memory is still rife with controversy today. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has helped the UIA’s reputation as a freedom fighters, somewhat putting aside any discussion of its involvement in the atrocities of World War II.
The commemoration of the massacre has become a symbol of national trauma and, occasionally, a tool of influence in political disagreements with Ukraine.
After Kyiv lifted a seven-year moratorium on such exhumations, Polish experts began exhuming the remains of the Volyn massacre victims in the western Ukrainian village of Puzhniky in April. Some think this may be the first step in aversing the Volyn massacre’s repercussions.
According to historians, reconciliation won’t happen quickly.
Ivar Dale, a senior policy adviser with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, a human rights watchdog, told Al Jazeera, “The way to reconciliation is frequently painful and requires people to accept historical realities they’re uncomfortable with.”
