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Richard Medhurst Profile picture
@richimedhurst
Sep 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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The UK is doing something extraordinary while not many are watching.

Parliament had its second reading today of the Overseas Operations Bill which decriminalizes war crimes and torture carried out by UK soldiers abroad, by introducing a statute of limitation of 5 years.
This legislation is not just iniquitous but openly criminal, calling upon the UK to derogate from the European Convention on Human Rights and place its own law above the UN convention against torture and international Hague and Geneva conventions.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…
Labour sacked three of its junior shadow ministers @NadiaWhittomeMP @BethWinterMP and @_OliviaBlake who defied the whip and voted against the legislation.

Synchronous to the prosecution of journalist Julian #Assange, MPs who object to torture are also silenced in the UK.
How does this law square up for someone like Saifullah Ghareb Yar whose family was brutally murdered by the SAS in 2011? He has sought justice from the Ministry of Defence for a decade and was ignored like countless other victims in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Even when a leaked cache of military emails published by the Sunday Times corroborated the victim's allegations– charges were dropped and not a single person in the entire chain of command is held accountable to this day.

bbc.com/news/uk-535971…
Another unforgettable act of brutality: Baha Mousa who was beaten to death by British forces in Iraq while in custody.

The officer was court-martialed, jailed for 1 year then released.

The UK doesn't seek to implement justice. It covers up imperialist war crimes and wickedness.
The bill passed second reading today in the House of Commons by 332 to 77. A shocking indicator of the wide consensus in Parliament to pursue an open violation of international law, human rights and any semblance of a fair legal system.
Corporal* Donald Payne, not an officer.

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Jun 26
French police put Bashir Biazar in a camp for posting pro-Palestinian content. He's been there 3 weeks.

They want to deport him even though he's lived in France with his family for 2 years. They're smearing him, saying he is an Iranian agent, with 0 proof.

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The French government will not even answer his lawyer. This is completely insane.

They are holding him under administrative detention, with no charges, and in a camp for illegal migrants, which is ridiculous given he resides legally in France.
The way they detained him, it was a trap.

They asked him to come down to the station on June 3. He was arrested on the spot. All based on an expulsion order from May 22— and not allowed to respond at all!

If France wish to deport him, then why not do it? To make him suffer.
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May 20
LIVE THREAD:

Today, the High Court will decide whether to permit #Assange to appeal the UK's decision to extradite him to the US.
If denied, all of Assange’s legal avenues in Britain are exhausted, and he will appeal to the ECHR.

I am attending the hearing. Live updates below:
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2) The US are seeking to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified government documents. These documents exposed US war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.

If extradited, he could be sentenced to 175 years in prison.
3) The High Court granted Assange provisional leave to appeal, unless the US can guarantee that Julian Assange

–Will be granted 1st Amendment rights in the US

-Will not be prejudiced because of his nationality at trial

–Will not be sentenced to death
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Apr 18
Why Hamas took hostages:

Under Oslo, Israel had to free Palestinians like Waleed Daqqa. That was In 1993. He died last week. Killed through deliberate medical negligence.

Thousands of Palestinian hostages are in Israeli dungeons, without charge or trial. The world didn't care.
Waleed Daqqa wasn't held under administrative detention, but the fact Israel kept him in violation of Oslo, and then even after completing the 35 years of his life sentence! And on top of all this, denied him conjugal & family visits, or proper medical care.
He was supposed to be top of the list for any prisoner deal, because they are done based on seniority. He could have been freed in at least 4.

Denied. Over and over.

The Resistance fought for him and the thousands like him that the world ignored
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Mar 26
BREAKING: Julian Assange has been granted limited leave to appeal by the High Court.

I have just been given the ruling and will provide more information below Image
Before I include more points of order (the ruling is around 66 pages) this means that Assange has not exhausted his legal options in the United Kingdom, and may yet convince a court to stay and bar the extradition to the United States
This is a full explanation of the Assange case, please watch it if unfamiliar (and even if you are) as it encapsulates the entire issue in one video.

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Mar 15
There's no such thing as a "debate" about Israel. You don't debate theft. Theft is wrong.

Israelis are thieves. That's what colonialism is. This is not their land, and as long as they are there, there will be resistance. They will leave one day whether they like it or not.
What Israel have done is ruin the Jewish communities in Arab countries. The Israelis, on purpose, created hostile environments toward Jews in Arab countries, specifically to make them leave to Israel. How do we return these communities now? This is the only question that matters.
But the majority of Israelis, the Israelis who make political decisions, the ones who created the terrorist groups Haganah, Irgun, Lehi-- which then became the IDF-- they're all Europeans, and they can simply go back to Europe where they belong like all European colonizers.
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Mar 5
Alas, Victoria Nuland resigns, her 10-year war against Russia a giant, pathetic flop.

My favorite moment was her trip to Niger last summer after the coup, expecting the red carpet treatment, and instead Tchiani refuses to meet and sends his adjutants.😂

Speaking of which, Putin ground Nuland and NATO's war against Russia to a total halt using well-placed, insurmountable fortifications. This is why the famed "spring counteroffensive" never came.

Russia's stockpiling and mass-production of shells, which the West couldn't catch to even in 50 years, is another major factor:

BRICS, and outmaneuvering sanctions also contributed to Russia's victory:
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