Thread by @ClooneyFDN

There has been a flurry of good news in some of our cases over the past few days, so in case you missed them, here’s a thread to start your weekend on a positive note👇

Filipino Journalist @mariaressa, founder of @rapplerdotcom, was cleared of tax evasion charges by a #Philippines court on Wednesday. She is the client of our co-founder Amal Clooney and @caoilfhionnanna. doughtystreet.co.uk/news/amal-cloo…

Yesterday, @Europarl_EN voted to urge #Morocco “to guarantee, among other things, a fair trial to imprisoned journalists, specifically highlighting Omar Radi, whose case @TrialWatch monitored with our partners @usc_humanrights, finding it “an abuse of process” and giving it a D.

Last week, the Supreme Court of #Kyrgyzstan acquitted human rights defender @KamilRuziev, putting an end to a saga that lasted over two years, in which he had faced up to 5 years in prison. @usc_humanrights monitored his trial on behalf of @TrialWatch.

Also in #Kyrgyzstan, activist Askhat Zheksebaev had been in detention for illegal entry since fleeing his unfair trial and conviction in #Kazakhstan in November 2022. This week, however, he was released and the case against him in Kyrgyzstan was dismissed. cfj.org/news_posts/kaz…

In a huge victory for freedom of speech in #Uganda, its Constitutional Court has declared "null and void" a section of the country's cybercrime law that has been used to prosecute government critics.

Our @TrialWatch team previously monitored the trial of women's rights activist @DrStellaNyanzi, who was prosecuted under this same cybercrime provision for a poem she had written about the country's president. cfj.org/news_posts/clo…

CFJ will continue to wage justice until all of the cases that we are working on have positive outcomes like these.