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Iran hangs 2 protesters in public, crowd cries ‘dishonorable’ as security fires tear gas
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Iran publicly hanged two young men Tuesday over their alleged roles in January’s nationwide anti-government protests, as onlookers chanted «Dishonorable, dishonorable!» before security forces fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled Iranian opposition group.
Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi were hanged Tuesday in Isfahan’s Shahid Alikhani Square — where authorities alleged they committed offenses connected to the Jan. 8 protests, according to the NCRI and Iranian state media.
The NCRI said onlookers condemned the executions before security forces fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. The opposition group also said security personnel had been deployed on rooftops and surrounding streets.
Iranian state media also reported the public executions, Reuters said, with Iran’s semi-official news agency Mehr saying they were carried out in Alikhani Square «in the presence of a group of people.»
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Iran publicly hanged Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani Tuesday over his alleged roles in January’s nationwide anti-government protests (Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA))
«Fearing public outrage over this brutal crime, the regime’s suppressive forces had deployed agents in the surrounding streets and on rooftops,» NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi said in a statement shared on X.
The executions mark the latest escalation in Iran’s crackdown on protesters arrested during the nationwide demonstrations that began in late December and intensified in January.
Human rights groups have accused Iranian authorities of denying defendants due process, relying on coerced confessions and carrying out executions after unfair trials.
Iran’s judiciary, meanwhile, accused Badjani and Hosseinabadi of participating in the Jan. 8 killing of four members of the State Security Force during demonstrations in Shahid Alikhani Square.
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Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi was hanged Tuesday in Isfahan’s Shahid Alikhani Square — the same location where he had joined anti-government demonstrations months earlier. (Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA))
According to the judiciary’s Mizan news agency, Badjani and Hosseinabadi were convicted of moharebeh, or «enmity against God,» efsad-fil-arz, or «corruption on Earth,» as well as destruction and arson of public property, and acts that led to the deaths of four officers. Authorities also accused them of possessing firearms and Molotov cocktails.
The NCRI claimed Tuesday that the defendants were denied the right to choose their own lawyers, and even their court-appointed attorneys were denied access to the case files.
Iran publicly hanged Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani Tuesday over his alleged role in January’s nationwide anti-government protests.
The judiciary, however, said the men had legal representation, appealed their convictions and were convicted using police reports, cellphone evidence, witness testimony, confessions and a crime scene reconstruction.
The pair were said to be among 12 protesters sentenced to death in what has become known as the Alikhani Square case.
Two other defendants, Erfan Esfandiari and Gol Mohammad Mohammadi, were executed July 19, bringing the total number of executions in the case to four.
The U.N. experts warned this week that the remaining defendants face an imminent risk of execution.
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Protesters march in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Fars News Agency via AP)
«The young men, aged between their late teens and early 20s, were reportedly arbitrarily deprived of their liberty, in some cases being subjected to enforced disappearance, ill-treated and accused of involvement in the killing of four security force members, as well as arson and vandalism during the Jan. 8, 2026, protests in Shahid Alikhani Square in Isfahan,» U.N. experts said in a statement.
The statement also said all defendants were sentenced to death during a single closed-door hearing without clarity about each individual’s alleged responsibility, calling the proceedings a violation of international fair trial standards.
Human Rights Watch said this week that at least 50 people have been executed over the past four months on what it described as vague national security charges.
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«By resorting once again to the medieval practice of public hangings, the Islamic Republic is trying to instill fear throughout society and deter future protests,» Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said in a post shared on X.
«Public executions are a cruel form of state terror that the international community must not tolerate,» he added.
The protests across Iran began in late December amid a deepening economic crisis before expanding into one of the largest anti-government movements in the Islamic Republic’s history.
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Clinton, Obama-era Democratic heavyweights Penn and Emanuel rip NYC’s Mamdani over taxes, Israel, blast DSA
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Two prominent Democratic figures with deep ties to the Clinton and Obama administrations publicly criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week, with former Clinton adviser Mark Penn attacking the mayor’s proposed property tax plan while former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel recounted what he described as a private conversation in which he challenged Mamdani’s rhetoric on Israel.
The criticism is notable because it comes from longtime Democrat insiders rather than Republican opponents and focuses on two of the issues that have defined Mamdani’s rise political rise: his far-left economic agenda and his positions on Israel.
Fox News Digital reached out to Penn, Emanuel and Mamdani’s office for comment.
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Mark Penn participates in a panel discussion during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Getty Images)
Penn, a longtime Democrat strategist and former pollster and adviser to President Bill Clinton, accused Mamdani of dramatically understating the scope of his proposed pied-à-terre tax after the mayor released a public database identifying property owners who could be subject to it.
In a lengthy post on X, Penn argued the city’s valuation system had swept in nearly one million property owners rather than the roughly 30,000 luxury homeowners Penn said had previously been described as the intended targets.
«The $5 million figure was a fake,» Penn wrote, arguing the city’s valuation system had improperly classified properties and would force homeowners to prove they should not be taxed.
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Former Mayor of Chicago and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel speaks during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May 5, 2026. ((Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images))
Penn also argued the proposal could depress property values, discourage investment in New York City and potentially raise constitutional questions.
Meanwhile, Emanuel said during an appearance on the Unholy Podcast that he met privately with Mamdani for roughly 90 minutes and challenged the self-described democratic socialist mayor over his views on Israel.
Emanuel said he praised portions of Mamdani’s domestic agenda, including childcare, but criticized Mamdani’s past use of the phrase «from the river to the sea.»
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s video admitting that he lacks the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did little to ease Jewish leaders’ concerns. (NYC Mayor’s Office via YouTube/Handout via Reuters)
«I know where there’s a line. You don’t,» Emanuel recalled telling Mamdani.
Emanuel said both calls for a «Greater Israel» and the slogan «from the river to the sea» would lead to «perpetual conflict.»
After clips of Emanuel’s remarks circulated online, Mamdani communications director Anna Bahr publicly disputed the account.
«can confirm this …. did not happen,» Bahr wrote on X in response to a post summarizing Emanuel’s remarks.
It was not immediately clear from Bahr’s post whether she was disputing that the meeting occurred or Emanuel’s characterization of the conversation.
Emanuel has also recently criticized the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) more broadly. In a post on X this week, he argued Democrats should focus on winning competitive elections rather than what he characterized as ideological distractions.
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«You can be focused on winning tough races, flipping red seats blue. Or you can be focused on abolishing prisons and… the Senate and Supreme Court? You can’t do both,» Emanuel wrote. «I’m for winning this November and ending Trump’s corruption — and I’m also for putting an end to all the distractions from the DSA.»
Penn, Emanuel and Mamdani’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for additional comment before publication.
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Chile revisará el listado de víctimas de la dictadura de Pinochet tras encontrar en Argentina a una mujer que figuraba como desaparecida
El gobierno del presidente José Antonio Kast en Chile anunció este miércoles que revisará el registro oficial de detenidos desaparecidos de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet, luego de que un examen de ADN confirmara que Bernarda Vera, incluida durante décadas en ese listado como víctima de desaparición forzada, fue localizada con vida en Miramar, cerca de Mar del Plata.
El ministro de Justicia y Derechos Humanos de Chile, Fernando Rabat, informó que se analizará la nómina oficial de víctimas de la dictadura (1973-1990) para verificar que no existan errores. La medida fue anunciada tras la repercusión que generó el caso de Vera, una militante opositora al régimen que figuraba como desaparecida desde 1973.
“Vamos a determinar oficialmente que no contenga errores”, afirmó Rabat en una entrevista con Radio Infinita, al referirse al Informe de la Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación —conocido como Informe Rettig—, elaborado durante el gobierno de Patricio Aylwin (1990-1994), que identificó a 1.469 detenidos desaparecidos durante la dictadura, entre ellos Vera. El presidente chileno José Antonio Kast. (REUTERS/Angela Ponce)
El caso de Bernarda Vera
El caso salió a la luz en septiembre de 2025, cuando medios chilenos informaron que Vera —militante del extinto Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), hoy de 80 años— había sido localizada en Miramar, una ciudad ubicada a unos 45 kilómetros de Mar del Plata.
La búsqueda estuvo a cargo de funcionarios del Plan Nacional de Búsqueda, un programa estatal creado para esclarecer las circunstancias de desaparición y determinar el destino de las víctimas que aún permanecen sin paradero conocido.
El 27 de julio, un examen de ADN ordenado por la Justicia chilena confirmó con una probabilidad de identificación superior al 99,9999% que la mujer encontrada en Argentina era Bernarda Vera. La chilena Bernarda Vera fue hallada en Argentina pese a que se consideraba que había sido desaparecida por la dictadura de Pinochet. (Foto: Cortesía/Emol)
Según el Informe Rettig, Vera fue detenida en octubre de 1973, cuando tenía 27 años, luego de participar en el asalto a un retén policial en Neltume, una zona cordillerana ubicada a unos 850 kilómetros de Santiago y cercana a la frontera con Argentina. Allí, el MIR intentó establecer un foco guerrillero para resistir a la dictadura instaurada tras el golpe de Estado contra Salvador Allende.
De acuerdo con versiones no oficiales, Vera —quien utilizaba el alias clandestino “Anita” y tenía una hija de cinco años al momento de su desaparición— permaneció en la zona montañosa hasta diciembre de 1973 y luego logró escapar hacia Argentina. Más tarde viajó a Suecia y regresó a Sudamérica a fines de la década de 1990.
Su familia había perdido contacto con ella en los días previos al golpe del 11 de septiembre de 1973. Tiempo después, fue informada de que Vera había sido condenada a muerte en rebeldía en un proceso judicial vinculado al ataque al retén de Neltume.
La revisión de la pensión familiar
Rabat indicó que el caso será notificado al Consejo de Defensa del Estado para que “adopte las decisiones que corresponden” respecto de la pensión que la familia de Vera recibió durante años en el marco de la ley de reparación. “No quiero calificar la buena o mala fe de quienes recibieron la pensión porque no me corresponde. Lo que estoy señalando es que no debió haberse pagado esa pensión”, afirmó el ministro.
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El nombramiento de Rabat generó polémica en su momento, ya que a principios de los años 2000 integró el equipo jurídico que defendió a Pinochet en el juicio por la Operación Colombo y en el Caso Riggs.
El ministro sostuvo que su cartera “fortalecerá” el Plan Nacional de Búsqueda y sumará funcionarios para revisar el listado de detenidos desaparecidos, pese a los recortes ordenados por el presidente Kast. El programa fue lanzado en 2023 por el gobierno del entonces presidente Gabriel Boric (2022-2026) y es considerado una de las principales políticas de memoria histórica impulsadas desde el fin de la dictadura, al ser la primera vez que el Estado chileno lidera la búsqueda de las más de mil víctimas que aún permanecen desaparecidas.
El régimen de Pinochet se extendió durante diecisiete años y dejó, según cifras oficiales, más de 40.000 víctimas entre ejecutados, detenidos desaparecidos, presos políticos y torturados. Más de 3.200 opositores murieron a manos de agentes del Estado.
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Russia launches ballistic missile attack on Kyiv hours after Zelenskyy warns of major strike
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Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital early Thursday, with multiple explosions reported across Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged residents to seek shelter as blasts rocked the city. Reuters, citing a witness, reported hearing multiple explosions.
The Ukrainian Air Force also said Russia was targeting the capital with ballistic missiles.
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An explosion lights up the sky over the city during a Russian missile and drone strike amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, July 2, 2026. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
Klitschko later said several non-residential sites caught fire following the strikes. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The attack came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia appeared to be preparing a major overnight assault.
«I received a report from Air Force Commander Anatolii Kryvonozhko,» Zelenskyy wrote on X Wednesday, saying Russia had prepared a «massive attack several days ago» and that there was a «high probability» it would be carried out overnight.
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People take shelter inside an overcrowded metro station during a Russian missile and drone strike amid Russia’s attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 30, 2026. (Alina Smutko/Reuters)
«It is important that our partners fully understand what is happening and that the protection of lives directly depends on their readiness, or lack thereof, to help us with air defense missiles,» Zelenskyy said.
The Ukrainian president made the appeal after returning from the United States, where he met with President Donald Trump.
Trump recently announced at the NATO summit in Turkey that the United States would license Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defense systems, according to The Associated Press.
«First and foremost, this concerns the United States and those partners that have Patriot missiles and can provide them to support our defense,» Zelenskyy wrote.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the White House during his visit to Washington, D.C., July 28, 2026.
«Every partner knows what is needed and fully understands the consequences of marking time.»
Fox News Digital’s Emma Bussey and Reuters contributed to this report.
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