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People of #Mariupole are held hostage to #PutinsWar, are executed in thousands every day!
Now, can someone explain to me - where are all those celebrities, royals, religious clergy: Pope, Imam, Rabbi, ..?
Isn't it their job to be #humanitarians? to be there now? to shield? 1/8
Now, can someone explain to me - where are all those celebrities, royals, religious clergy: Pope, Imam, Rabbi, ..?
Isn't it their job to be #humanitarians? to be there now? to shield? 1/8
I remember the horrors of NordOst siege in Moscow in 2002 - people held hostage in the theatre for days. Putin as always did not care.
Meanwhile, amazing humans - celebrities, MPs, journalists all went there, offering themselves in exchange, leading some people out.
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Meanwhile, amazing humans - celebrities, MPs, journalists all went there, offering themselves in exchange, leading some people out.
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The muzzling of independent #Russia media, incl. #NovayaGazeta, is a huge blow. In my forthcoming book about #HumanRights heroes, I profile NG cofounder Anna Politkovskaya. Her relentless #reporting on Chechnya shed light on a horrific conflict. THREAD laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/p…
#Politkovskaya kept her focus on the human toll. Unlike some who craved war reporting, Politkovskaya said she was “afraid of everything that shoots.” Yet she was determined. Even @Novaya_Gazeta “cut out the toughest parts” she wrote/2 newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/h…
“People call the newspaper & send letters with one and the same question,” she once wrote. “Why are you writing about this? Why are you scaring us? Why do we need to know this?"/3
At @RSF_inter, we work every day to ensure the protection of journalists & to #endimpunity for the alarming number of journalists killed (968 over past 10 years). On International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, my thoughts are on some specific cases - thread.
@RSF_inter Azerbaijani editor Elmar Huseynov was the first case of a murdered journalist I ever worked on, and will always stay with me. He was gunned down in a contract-style killing outside his Baku flat on 2 March 2005. More than 14 years on, there's still been no justice. #endimpunity 
@RSF_inter Elmar Huseynov's murder inspired a new generation of journalists & civil society activists in #Azerbaijan, including Rasim Aliyev - who was himself killed in murky circumstances following the Baku European Games in Aug 2015. I will always remember his quiet heroism. #endimpunity
🕯#OTD Oct 7, 2006: Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya murdered to silence her fierce voice on Putin mafia state corruption, atrocities, propaganda. Her truth is louder today: Putin's guard dogs hurtling Russia back to USSR abyss…Journalists risk death, bullet, poison, trial.
#Politkovskaya was a journalist & human rights activist, not distinct in authoritarian Russia. Anna said journalists owe duty to tell the truth about the state. One last investigation was into mass poisoning of Chechen schoolchildren, authorities gaslighted as media mass hysteria
Before Trump, Americans might've read #Politkovskaya reports of gaslighting officials who blame media hysteria to cover up the poisoning of schoolchildren as absurd. We see now that gaslighting propaganda is a hallmark of illegitimate authoritarian states. theguardian.com/world/2006/mar…
