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For this year’s #16daysactivism , I will be focussing on the case of the 19 year old young woman who was forced to withdraw her complaint of rape.

There are going to be more court hearings as this case is ongoing. Please help keep this in the news.

gofundme.com/f/Help-Teen-Vi…
‘ The media have been aggressive in exposing and re-victimising a woman that has been in a particularly vulnerable position,’
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independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
Dissection of the retraction at the core of the Ayia Napa rape case.
cyprus-mail.com/2019/11/15/dis…

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Linguist casts doubt on rape retraction statement.
cyprus-mail.com/2019/11/15/lin…

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Retraction was ‘dictated by police’ and written in poor English.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/1…

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@VictoriaLIVE reads the desperate tweets of the then 18 year old, before she was imprisoned.

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What kind of man denies that a child is his?

Richard Wilmot, a millionaire pilot, has spent 16 years denying his daughter is his. Even his own lawyers have said his actions will bankrupt him yet he shows no signs of abating.
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The judgment of Mr Justice Mostyn starts off well....

Some of the background of this extremely long-running case can be found in the judgment of 25 July 2013, in judgments of 15 April 2014, 13 January 2016 , 25 January 2018 and in the judgment of the CoA dated 27 October 2017.
”There is no doubt that the respondent is an exceptionally vexatious litigant. I made the original extended civil restraint order on 15 April 2014. It has been extended by orders made by me and the Court of Appeal and is currently scheduled to expire on 24 January 2020.”
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Patrisha McLean, who accused her singer-songwriter husband, Don McLean, of #domesticabuse, is organizing Maine women to tell their own stories. And he is protesting.
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She displayed a typed letter which, she said, he forced her to sign in 1994, declaring that fights they had were her fault, the result of her premenstrual mental disturbances. #DonMcLean
“In the later years of the marriage, “the worst of the physical violence didn’t really occur,” she said. “But I always know it could occur. He would say, ‘Don’t get me started,’ and we both knew what that meant.””
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Understanding Coercive Control

Part 31: Dehumanisation

Abusers control because they NEED to have control over another. Many also debase their victim by treating them as less than human to justify their behaviour.

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To dehumanise is to treat another individual or group as inferior. Many sociologists and historians believe that dehumanisation is an antecedent to violence.
Those who dehumanise do not persecute groups or individuals they perceive as equal but those they see as ‘less than’.
There are basically 2 forms of dehumanisation:

Animalistic Dehumanisation- When people are denied human traits, they are thought to be animal-like.

Mechanistic Dehumanisation- When people are denied human traits they are thought to be object-like.
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This was an absolutely horrific weekend for crime in Winnipeg. By far the worst I’ve seen in my career. Police said you have to go back about five years to find a spate of violence like this.

Here’s a rundown of what happened and what we know (it's going to be long):
In total, three people are dead (including a 14 year old) and four are injured (including a child under the age of two) in three separate incidents.

Winnipeg’s homicide total for 2019 now sits at 36.
The carnage began with two stabbings at a Halloween party on the 100 block of Kinver Avenue Saturday night.

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Shocking! 34 year old #Woman Civil #Police Officer (WCPO) Saumya dies on the spot after a man sets her on fire in broad daylight light in #Kerala's Mavelikara. More details awaited. Very disturbing . @ndtv
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Alejandro Moledo
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Forced treatment, restraint and seclusion are not mistakes, but torture. Let me try to summarise another tragic story of medical malpractice, in which prejudices against persons with psychosocial disabilities caused the death of a 26-year-old Spanish woman. Thread.
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Yesterday I asked Judge Kavanaugh about his dissent in Garza v. Hargan. This case involved a 17-year-old young woman who sought an abortion in Texas while in immigration custody. She took every step required by law to move forward with her decision.
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Going to do a little thread on what it’s like to be on the autistic spectrum. Will add to it from time to time, mostly myth debunking, stuff you might not know & how to help / interact with autistic people in your life. #ActuallyAutistic
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