Despite a shred of evidence Taner Kılıç, Amnesty Turkey's honorary Chair, has been convicted for membership of a terrorist organization. Özlem and Günal convicted for assisting.
We will appeal & we won’t give up until all are acquitted.
"It feels like a bad dream from which I'm waiting to wake up."
This was Gulhnihal, the daughter of #TanerKilic, when I met her in January 2018.
Today her father was convicted of “membership of a terrorist organisation”. The nightmare continues.
"From the start, this has been a politically-motivated trial aiming to silence those in the dock & send a message to the rest of society: fight for human rights or speak the truth at your peril.” Idil Eser ex-@aforgutu Director. By @amnesty Nils Muiznieks. euronews.com/2020/07/03/as-…
As well as Taner's conviction, Amnesty Turkey's former director, Idil Eser, was also convicted for membership of a terrorist organization alongside Özlem and Günal.
This decision to convict two former Amnesty International leaders - without ANY evidence - is deeply alarming.
Defending human rights is not a crime
Disgraceful Büyükada verdict
Taner sentenced to 6 years 3 months for membership of terrorist organization
İdil, Özlem and Günal all given 1 year 13 months for assisting a terrorist organisation
İdil, Özlem and Günal were all convicted for 25 months for assisting a terrorist organisation.
NO DETENTION ORDERS were issued for Taner or any of those convicted.
They will not be imprisoned pending their appeals. The appeals process could take years.
This verdict is a crushing blow not only for Taner, Özlem, İdil & Günal and their families but for everyone who believes in justice in Turkey and beyond.
That a judicial system can be politicised to this this extent, is a chilling warning for the world. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Today's decision is staggering. Over 12 court hearings, each & every allegation has been comprehensively exposed as a baseless slur. The court’s verdict defies logic & exposes this 3-year trial as the politically motivated attempt to silence independent voices it was from day one
Following the convictions of 4 out of the 11 human rights defenders on trial in the emblematic Büyükada case, @amnesty & @hrw are calling on the EU & its Member States to address the sharp decline in respect for fundamental rights & freedoms in #Turkey. amnesty.eu/news/amnesty-i…
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1/. “It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; & it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch”
Arthur Koestler’s 1944 essay expressing frustration at the failure of the world to acknowledge Nazi atrocities resonates today wethescreamers.com
2/ “There are a few of us…yelling at you in newspapers…Now & then we reach your ear…But it only lasts a minute. You shake yourself like puppies who’ve got their fur wet; then the screen again descends & you walk on, protected by the dream-barrier which stifles all sound”
#Gaza
3/ Koestler notes maniacs lose contact with reality so “perhaps it’s we, the screamers, who react in a sound & healthy way to the reality which surrounds us, whereas you are the neurotics who totter about in a screened fantasy world because you lack the faculty to face the facts”
“They got me!” Liz Truss tells far-right kingpin, Steve Bannon, before going on to explain that, to have effectively tackled “the deep state” that runs Britain & its institutions, she would have “needed a bigger bazooka”! #LizTruss #BritanniaUnchained
"I was just saying it like it is & that’s what people respect me for"(!)
Liz Truss’ compares her premiership to a one night stand & says she was just “fattening the pig” for slaughter & that she should have gaslit the public like Rishi Sunak is doing (!)
"I faced the most almighty backlash...from the usual suspects in the media” Liz Truss
“Truss's decline is simultaneously tragic & horrifying but the claim that the media conspired against her can't go unchallenged. There are front pages praising her to the rafters” @mrjamesob
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“The govt needs get professional IT experts to recover these messages”
Charles Persinger who lost his wife & mother to #COVID, echoes the call of @CovidJusticeUK’s lawyers calling on the @covidinquiryuk to commission experts to retrieve Sunak & Johnson’s ‘lost’ WhatsApp messages
Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect on 29 September
It gives X the right to use your posts - including DMs - & all your data - including phone, email, biometrics (e.g. face scans & eye scans) to train their AI & to share with any partner X wants👇 twitter.com/en/privacy
“I do not accept that Twitter has deteriorated in any way since Elon Musk took over”
A week before Twitter’s change in privacy policy, some questions for @elonmusk
1. What biometric information will be collected & what are the intended uses?
How will X ensure that that the data of X’s 530 million users isn’t used for unlawful purposes? mashable.com/article/x-twit…
1/. “I am often asked why the UK doesn’t have a successful far-right populist party. My answer is: because it doesn’t need to” @julie_renbe
Far-right politics are becoming mainstreamed in:
Italy
Finland
Sweden
Greece
France
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Spain
UK theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…
2/. The far right is being increasingly mainstreamed in both European & US politics
Last October, Giorgia Meloni - head of the Brothers of Italy party, which has historical roots in the post-war neo-fascist Italian Social Movement - won Italy’s election nytimes.com/2023/07/31/pod…