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Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi wins top prize at Cannes Film FestivalIranian director Jafar Panahi’s film, It Was Just an Accident, has been awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The dissident has endured years of travel bans and prison terms in Iran for his filmmaking, which served as inspiration for his award-winning work.

East African rights groups condemn Tanzania, saying human right activists ‘abandoned’ at border show signs of torture.A Ugandan human rights activist, arrested in Tanzania after travelling to the country to support an opposition politician at a trial for treason, has been tortured and dumped at the border, according to an NGO.Ugandan rights group Agora Discourse said on Friday that activist and journalist Agather Atuhaire had been “abandoned at the border by Tanzanian authorities” and showed signs of torture.

The statement echoes reports regarding a Kenyan activist detained at the same time and released a day earlier, and supports complaints of a crackdown on democracy across East Africa.Atuhaire had travelled to Tanzania alongside Kenyan anticorruption campaigner Boniface Mwangi to support opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who appeared in court on Monday.

Both were arrested shortly after the hearing and held incommunicado.

Tanzanian police had initially told local rights groups that the pair would be deported by air. However, Mwangi was discovered on Thursday on a roadside in northern Tanzania near the Kenyan border.on Wednesday night as they left a Jewish museum in Washington, DC, prompting outrage from US and Israeli officials.

A 31-year-old man from Chicago, Illinois, named as Elias Rodriguez, has been arrested and charged with murder. On Thursday, he appeared in court in Washington, DC, for his arraignment. A preliminary hearing has been set for June 18. Rodriguez is the only suspect.President Donald Trump condemned the shooting as “horrible”, stating there was no place for “hatred” in the US. Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he was “devastated” by what had unfolded in the US capital.

“This is a despicable act of hatred, of anti-Semitism, which has claimed the lives of two young employees of the Israeli embassy,” he said.Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security, said federal authorities were investigating the incident and would bring its “depraved perpetrator” to justice. Jeanine Pirro, the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, said the killings were being investigated as a “hate crime and a crime of terrorism”.