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Flee review – fantastically moving story of a refugee’s life-saving secret

This extraordinary tale of the desperate lengths a gay Afghan man was forced to go to in order to escape persecution is a powerful testament to human endurance

A Violent Man review – hardnut prison drama is guilty as charged

Craig Fairbrass’s impressive screen presence as a longtime convict carries this shadowy take on life behind bars

‘It was bigger than Cosby’: W Kamau Bell on reckoning with an icon’s fall

In the docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby, the comic and TV host examines how a once-loved comedy star fell from grace, and the system that supported him

Kanye West and Drake review – the end of an overcooked beef

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum livestreamIn a much-hyped livestreamed gig, Drake’s prosaic pop-rap is shown up by the magnetic stage charisma of his new friend

Home review – Franka Potente makes directing debut with haunting ex-con drama

Run Lola Run star goes behind the camera for California-set film about a killer who can’t escape his past

The BBC must defend itself with all its might against this mortal threat | Polly Toynbee

The culture secretary’s plan to freeze funding and axe the licence fee is pure political vandalism

Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi: ‘Global recognition is double-edged’

He has been detained at airports and told never to return to Iran. But the director, who could be about to win his third Oscar, refuses to be silenced about outrages in his own country – and in the west

Fifa opens investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in Gabonese football

Fifa opens investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in Gabonese football

‘The extremist media has tried to destroy me’: Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi

He has been detained at airports and told never to return to Iran. But the director refuses to be silenced about outrages in his own country – and in the west. Could this cost him another Oscar at this year’s awards?

A Hero review – Asghar Farhadi’s realist tale is just too messy and unsatisfactory

Plot holes trip up the Iranian director’s drama of a slippery man’s desperate efforts to trick his way out of debtors’ prison

Kanye West and Drake review – the end of an overcooked beef

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum livestreamIn a much-hyped livestreamed gig, Drake’s prosaic pop-rap is shown up by the magnetic stage charisma of his new friend

Naked Singularity review – John Boyega offers fig leaf for bizarre legal drama

The actor toils as a crusading lawyer but not even the looming apocalypse can inject this strange film with excitement

Sean Bean on Time, makeup and his trans role: ‘If I did it today, there’d be an uproar’

In Time, the actor known as Game of Thrones’ Ned Stark had to show the terrors of prison … mostly by sitting in silence. He talks religion, looking rough – and the role he played that would not be made now

106.5 FM: the prison radio station giving Texas men on death row a voice

The Tank at Allan B Polunsky Unit allows the most isolated men a rare chance to be part of the prison community

Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s a misconception that people act to get attention’

Shaped by her father’s early life in apartheid South Africa, the actor brings political awareness to all of her roles, from Black Mirror and The Morning Show to the new BBC thriller The Girl Before

Castle Falls review – Dolph Lundgren puts on his specs and flexes his pecs

The muscly maestro team up with Scott Adkins in a gleeful film about a rickety high-rise, a criminal kingpin and a bag of money

In the battle between truth and lies, we must protect the world's journalists | Joel Simon

The first Nobel peace prize for journalists since 1935 shouldn’t obscure the fact that record numbers are in prison, facing intimidation or murder

Kanye West and Drake review – the end of an overcooked beef

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum livestreamIn a much-hyped livestreamed gig, Drake’s prosaic pop-rap is shown up by the magnetic stage charisma of his new friend

Number of journalists in jail around the world at new high, says survey

Committee to Protect Journalists says 293 reporters are in prison, and at least 24 have been killed in 2021

Daily Telegraph owner could go to jail for allegedly failing to pay ex-wife £50m

Lady Hiroko Barclay asks judge to commit Sir Frederick Barclay to prison for non-payment of divorce settlement

‘The last resort’: jailed former Qatar World Cup official on his hunger strike

Abdullah Ibhais says he will continue until ‘proven innocent’‘It is very hard and it is weakening,’ he adds in recordingThe detained former Qatar World Cup official Abdullah Ibhais has repeated his claims of innocence as he enters the 17th day of a hunger strike in prison.

‘I’ve healed. I don’t want to be the badass’ – Noomi Rapace on beating her Dragon Tattoo trauma

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo brought her global fame but trapped her in ‘pain and sadness’. The actor reveals how starring in weird new thriller Lamb made her feel alive again

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It review – vampish and sharp as a stiletto

The Puerto Rican-born star of the first West Side Story movie reflects on her life, career and traumas in this warm documentary salute

Alice Sebold’s publisher pulls memoir after overturned rape conviction

Scribner has responded to the news that Anthony Broadwater has been cleared of the crime at the centre of Lucky by ceasing to distribute the book

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman review – pointless portrait of a serial killer

This voyeuristic drama about the FBI hunt for Bundy makes his victims indistinguishable and leaves a nasty taste in the mouth

There Is No Evil review – passionate plea against Iran’s soul-poisoning executions

Dissident Mohammad Rasoulof blasts against his country’s profligate use of capital punishment that includes making citizens carry out death sentences

The Unforgivable review – Sandra Bullock does something terrible in ITV drama remake

Bullock plays a dead-eyed woman restarting life after 20 years behind bars for killing a police officer, in this compressed and contrived adaptation of Sally Wainwright’s miniseries Unforgiven

Base of the iceberg: the tragic cost of concussion in amateur sport | Emma Kemp

Former footy player Paul Wheatley is serving a prison sentence – the culmination of a chain of events that could be traced back to numerous on-field head knocks

R Kelly associate jailed for intimidating singer’s accuser with arson attack

Michael Williams had pleaded guilty to attack, one of three alleged instances of witness intimidation relating to the Kelly trial, and was sentenced to eight years

Gaga, Gucci and prison ferrets: how true crime conquered the world

Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci stars Lady Gaga in a tale of fashion and murder. But is true crime – once the soul of cinema, from thrillers and horrors to westerns – now outgrowing the big screen?

US journalist Danny Fenster released from prison in Myanmar

Fenster’s employer says he is flying out of the country, days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail

Myanmar junta jails US journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years

Frontier editor was accused of working for banned outlet Myanmar Now, from which he had resigned in July 2020, say colleagues

Raging Fire review – bad cop steals show from good in savage Hong Kong thriller

With adrenaline-pumping action, Nicholas Tse’s vengeful villain cuts an almost tragic figure

Dennis Bovell: ‘I’m still angry about the six months I was jailed, wrongfully’

The reggae musician and producer, 68, talks about Bob Marley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, police intimidation, impressing his dad and writing songs in prison to vent his anger

Tyrick Mitchell: ‘It hasn’t been the easiest route, so it’s more special’

Crystal Palace defender on his childhood and beating timekeeping issues and Brentford’s academy closure to reach the top

Ruggs was driving at 156mph and twice over alcohol limit at time of fatal crash

Former NFL receiver faces possibility of long jail sentenceTeam released player hours after crash on Tuesday morningFormer Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was driving at more than 150 mph with a blood-alcohol content twice Nevada’s legal limit before his sports car slammed into the rear of a vehicle, killing a 23-year-old woman, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Attica: the story behind the bloodiest prison riot in US history

In a revealing new documentary, the inmates who fought back against brutality and inhumane conditions are given a voice

Julian Assange: what to expect from the extradition appeal

US has assured courts he could be jailed in native Australia and not held under maximum security

Stephen Merchant: ‘I see The Outlaws as a suburban, low-rent western’

The comic actor and writer on his new sitcom about community service, sharing Christopher Walken’s omelette and portraying a serial killer

Digga D review – mad frenzy for drill’s ostracised figurehead

Kentish Town Forum, LondonPent-up demand for the rapper, who has faced legal restrictions on recording, meant his debut headline outing was a rapturous occasion

It was inevitable that Squid Game would be aggressively commodified | Arwa Mahdawi

The hit show has attracted global attention – not least from a North Korean propaganda website – for its takedown of capitalism. But the streaming service has wasted no time in commodifying the show’s success

Stella Moris on her secret family with Julian Assange: ‘He’s unlike anyone I have ever met’

What’s it like raising two boys when their father is wanted by the US? The partner of the WikiLeaks founder tells her story

Kent man who posted racist video after Euros final gets suspended sentence

Bradford Pretty abused England players after shootout defeatPretty sentenced to 50 days in prison suspended for 12 monthsA father-of-three who posted an “abhorrent” video on Facebook racially abusing Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka after the Euro 2020 final has been handed a suspended sentence.

Potter Payper: Thanks for Waiting review – a new era of levity and pain

(0207 Def Jam)The Barking rapper, recently released from prison, makes good on his promise to focus on music and invites in his peers for his major-label debut

The Gateway review – if Dirty Harry worked for social services

A hard-boozing caseworker grimaces his way around St Louis in Michele Civetta’s overblown urban thriller

Rebellion and redemption: how the Slits gave a voice to female prisoners

Playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm on how the groundbreaking female punk band helped her tell the story of women suffocating in the prison system

Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac review – a rueful return to Death Row

Nick Broomfield revisits the deadly hip-hop beef he covered in 2002’s Biggie and Tupac and uncovers deeper truths about America

Rapper Tion Wayne: ‘Police don’t want us to win, they want us in jail’

The north London MC recently scored drill’s first No 1 single, a triumphant turnaround after spells in prison. He explains why he wants to lift up a community living in ‘survival mode’

Jack O’Connell: ‘Eventually the wheels come off, everything explodes’

Actor Jack O’Connell is known for going to physical extremes to show the vulnerability of violent men.

Why has rugby taken so long to wake up to what boxing has long known?

New research points to small, repetitive blows damaging rugby players’ brains, but boxing established this decades ago

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The Taliban forced Afghan TV workers into hiding. Now they’re asking Hollywood for help

Television industry employees once used their programs to address progressive ideas. Many are now out of work and fearful to leave their homes

‘Countdown to war’: how the papers covered fears of an imminent Ukraine invasion

Front pages focus on the diplomatic efforts of Boris Johnson and Olaf Scholz amid warnings Russia could invade within days

‘We’ll keep reporting, whatever the risk from the junta,’ say Myanmar’s journalists

To avoid arrest, the staff of the 74 Media left their home city, only to face shellfire in their border refuge.

New Zealand defends strict Covid quarantine after pregnant journalist ‘had to turn to Taliban’ for help

Charlotte Bellis, a journalist, says she was forced to return to Afghanistan after her application was met with ‘clauses and technicalities and confusion’

Foreign journalists in China subject to rising intimidation, survey finds

Report says heightened dangers have prompted at least six to leave and many others to develop emergency exit plans

‘Let us eat cake’: how UK newspapers reacted to latest No 10 party claims

Daily Mail remains a Boris Johnson backer but same cannot be said of its sister outletA full list of alleged partiesWhat were the rules in June 2020?Coronavirus – latest global updatesThe print edition of the Daily Mail has remained one of Boris Johnson’s strongest backers in the media, even as other rightwing news outlets – including its sister outlet MailOnline – are increasingly critical of the beleaguered prime minister.

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‘People go a funny colour and keel over’: Briony Greenhill on leading the world’s most intense singing lessons

After discovering the creative joys of collaborative vocal improvisation, the Suffolk singer wants to help people reach into their hearts and bring out their voices

Britney Spears invited to US Congress to discuss conservatorship legal battle

Singer shares letter from Congressmen Charlie Crist and Eric Swalwell on Instagram, saying she was ‘immediately flattered’

Cypress Hill’s B-Real: ‘I’ve been pulled over many times with a tremendous amount of cannabis on me’

The rapper answers your questions about his passion for weed, the group’s appeal to 90s rock kids – and their beef with Ice Cube

Melt Yourself Down: Pray for Me I Don’t Fit In review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Decca)This fascinating band once seemed almost too eclectic – but now strong melodies and hooks drive an album that feels entirely of the moment

Record Store Day is harming, not helping, independent music shops like mine

Supply chain chaos and a worldwide vinyl shortage means the annual event that once saved record shops from extinction has lost its way

OAE/Manacorda/Faust review – nimble brilliance and refined care

Royal Festival Hall, LondonIsabelle Faust and Antonello Manacorda did their best to make the case for Schumann’s problematic violin concerto, while Manacorda brought something fresh to familiar works

Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy review – a heartwarming, sometimes heart-rending biopic

It turns out that young Kanye was extremely charming and funny. But that didn’t stop the music industry from refusing to take him seriously as a rapper – possibly causing his controversial current persona

Ricky Wilson’s honest playlist

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Plus: long-distance loans, another cracker of the late-comeback-and-win genre and winning with seven menMail us your questions or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU“The other day, the Wordle answer was MOUNT, which got me thinking – is Mason Mount the only footballer (present or former) whose first and second name are recognised five-letter words in the dictionary and therefore legitimate potential answers in Wordle?” asks Joe Hutton.

IOC denies Richardson’s accusations of double standards over Valieva

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US sprinter missed Olympics after positive cannabis testIOC: ‘There is nothing in common between these two cases’The International Olympic Committee has dismissed claims that a double standard was applied to US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson compared to Russian skater Kamila Valieva after both tested positive for a banned drug.

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