The UK’s foremost political artist talks through half a century of his work, on show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London Even as he hangs work for a retrospective at one of his childhood haunts, London’s Whitechapel Gallery, Peter Kennard seems beset by misgivings. Archive of Dissent is a celebration of 50 years of work by the UK’s foremost political artist, yet he admits to a “ sense of failure of making work like this”. He rallies despite himself, saying “but that is also the impetus to go on making it”. Peter Kennard’s Haywain with Cruise Missiles, 1980. Photograph: Tate ..read more

With music now a crime in Afghanistan, Braga has become one of the few places where the practice is being preserved A stone’s throw from Portugal’s oldest cathedral and buzzing bakeries serving up pastéis de nata, the complex notes of a sitar fill the ground floor of an unassuming building in the northern city of Braga. The soft strumming belies the radical nature of the mission that has taken root here: to preserve Afghan music and use it as a tool to counter those who want to eradicate it ..read more

The international court of justice, the UN's top court, has ruled that Israel’s settlement policies and use of natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territories violate international law. The ICJ said: 'The transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank and Jerusalem, as well as Israel’s maintenance of their presence, is contrary to article 49 of the fourth Geneva convention' Israel’s settlement policies break international law, court finds Israel-Gaza war – live updates ..read more

Saudis living in the UK claim Riyadh is targeting them for speaking out on human rights and jailing of female activists Saudi exiles living in the UK have spoken of threats to their lives and harassment over their support for improvements in human rights in their home country. Saudi Arabia has been attempting to present itself as a reformed state since the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi hit squad at its consulate in Istanbul in 2018. It has spent billions on sporting deals and promoting tourism in the country and was recently named host of a UN commission on women’s right ..read more

Exclusive: Cache of videos seen by Guardian Australia and SBS The Feed lays bare distressing treatment of teenagers – many of them disabled – in police custody Watch Guardian Australia and SBS The Feed’s documentary here Find more from Guardian Australia’s In the box series here Read more of Guardian Australia’s Queensland coverage here A girl punches herself in the face, strips naked and urinates on the floor of an isolation cell; a boy wakes in the night and tells officers: “I can’t breathe.” Children scream in distress at being placed in a “freezing” isolation cell, known as “the box”. Si ..read more

Human Rights Watch says ill-treatment of some minors arbitrarily held in gang crackdown amounts to torture About 3,000 children – including some as young as 12 – have been swept up in El Salvador’s mass detentions since President Nayib Bukele began his crackdown on gangs two years ago, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report, which draws on case files and almost 100 interviews with victims, police and officials, documents the arbitrary detention of children and ill-treatment that in some cases amounted to torture ..read more

Concerns grow over police arresting children – some as young as 11 – accused of low-level crimes or bail breaches Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast With an election on the horizon, the Queensland government has begun posting tallies of the children arrested and charged by its flagship “saturation” youth crime operation. The announcement of Taskforce Guardian’s 1,000th arrest included a video with a musical backing track, a press conference with government ministers and a public statement. There was ..read more

Crown prince criticised ‘bad laws’ for Mohammed al-Ghamdi’s death sentence months before second conviction Fresh questions have been raised about the suppression of free speech in Saudi Arabia after the brother of a man facing the death penalty for tweeting to 10 followers was handed a 20-year sentence for largely innocuous tweets. The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had said Mohammed al-Ghamdi was a victim of “bad laws” after being sentenced to death, yet the crown prince permitted the same laws to be used to sentence Ghamdi’s younger brother, Asaad al-Ghamdi ..read more

The cruelties inflicted years ago at Nyayo are barely known in Kenya. Now survivors want to help the nation remember The 56 days that Patrick Onyango spent in Kenya’s dark, damp Nyayo House torture chambers remain clear in his mind. It was three deacdes ago that Onyango, now 66, knew that his opposition to the autocratic rule of Kenya’s second president, Daniel arap Moi, was to be punished when uniformed policemen seized him in the middle of a class he was teaching in Kisumu, the port city in western Kenya, bundling him on to a helicopter and whisking him to the capital, Nairobi. There he was ..read more

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show psychologists and youth workers raised concerns and pleaded with youth justice authorities for a transfer to a safer facility Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Authorities repeatedly ignored pleas that a 13-year-old boy was at risk of harm in the days before the child was allegedly sexually assaulted in an overcrowded Queensland police watch house cell. Documents seen by Guardian Australia show psychologists and youth workers separately raised the alarm to the youth justice department about the size ..read more