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10 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
1./ On #HumanRights day we should remember Patrick Zaky #PatrickZaky the Egyptian rights campaigner who was arrested and tortured when he went back for a holiday to Egypt from Italy in Feb 2020. He's still in prison. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/egyptian…
2./ Patrick was studying for a masters in "LGBT and gender studies" in Bologna. While there he bravely spoke out about Egypt's failure to prosecute the men who tortured and brutally murdered an Italian doctoral student called Guilio Regeni in 2016 theguardian.com/world/2020/feb…
3./ Today -appropriately- the Italian authorities charged 4 members of Egypt's national security agency with Guilio's murder. Guilio was researching labour unions. An estimated 2,723 people have been 'forcibly disappeared' in Egypt since 2015. theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
4./ The right wing government in Italy recently concluded a huge arms deal with Egypt. Our own govt is a major supplier of arms to the country, some of which have been used against protesters, and has designated Egypt as a "key market for arms sales". caat.org.uk/resources/coun…
5./ In Egypt the crackdown against lesbians and gay men continues, with laws against "debauchery" used liberally to imprison. Bedayaa’s Legal Aid Project has documented "92 arrests of LGBT people in 2019" noting most took place “randomly off the street”. humandignitytrust.org/country-profil…
6./ This inescapable repression leads to tragedy. During a concert in Cairo in 2017 Sarah Hegazi raised a rainbow flag. She was arrested, tortured, denounced publicly and forced into exile. She recently took her own life. nytimes.com/2020/06/15/wor…
7./ Free ...Patrick Zaky, Justice... for Guilio Regeni and RIP Sarah Hegazi. edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/mid…

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1./ Puberty blockers. Yesterday's High Court judgement says "children must fully understand their impact". But can kids really do that when they're being exposed to an onslaught of online promotion which presents Blockers as an almost magical "cure"? theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
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1. So what's the truth about @ALLIANCELGB and what's just myth? Last week saw another surge of crazy accusations against us. We believe passionately in free speech and robust debate so we tend to respond more in sorrow than in anger even when the claims are entirely unhinged.👇
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1./ It's HER again. @naomirwolf can't stop talking nonsense but at least her claim in @Openly that her LGB & feminist critics are bots are of a piece with her other delusions. She also tries to defend her book Outrages which was pulped in the US because it was so inaccurate.👇
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1./ URGENT. Please email your MSP today. The Scottish Parliament will be asked tomorrow to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. But the motion shouldn't be passed because it's full of wild exaggerations and downright mistakes. You can read it here👇 bb.parliament.scot/Motions/Detail…
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