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12 Apr, 4 tweets, 7 min read
1/. "I will never see the world again"

In 2018 writer & journalist, Mehmet Altan, was sentenced to life-imprisonment in #Turkey on baseless terrorism charges

Tmw the European Court of Human Rights will pass judgment his conviction #FreeTurkeyMedia

3 May = #WorldPressFreedomDay Image
2/. This cartoon👆is by the amazing @channeldraw

In previous years, to mark #WorldPressFreedomDay, @amnesty invited people to tweet their cartoons using the #FreeTurkeyMedia hashtag

Turkey is one of the world's biggest jailer of journalists. #WPFD21
3/. Some more #FreeTurkeyMedia cartoons👇

Why not submit one yourself?

Thanks to cartoonists @MartinRowson @jonesycartoons @atiqshahid2 @Banxcartoons @BellBelltoons @procartoonists @marshallcartoon @Schism_Schasm @iainoverton @CRNetInt @CartooningPeace
4/. European Court of Human Rights finds #Turkey to be in violation of #AhmetAltan’s right to liberty & security & right to freedom of expression

One judge quoted @bobdylan
“How many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn’t see?” #BREAKING
duvarenglish.com/turkey-violate…

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The hunt is on for the world's biggest rabbit, stolen from its home in Worcestershire

The ten-year-old Darius, a 4ft 3in-long Continental Giant, was snatched from a rear garden.
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Darius looks a bit like this rabbit, only 170x bigger #FreeDarius
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11 Apr
In this chilling 2013 interview, @BorisJohnson admits he’s not really bumbling

“I’m hard as nails” he says

He also tells us “a terrible truth about politics & human nature”

That you can “make a good case for any course of action.” #HerdImmunity #COVID19
When the subject moves to ethics, @BorisJohnson becomes more guarded

Asked whether he believes one "can derive the ethics from the science" he avoids answering

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I know!

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This thread👇offers a potted summary of just some of what is going on. #GenomeUK
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9 Apr
“144-page issue with magical souvenir magazine” @DailyMailUK

“Magical”?
“Souvenir”?
“144 pages”?
#PrincePhilip #dukeofedinburgh #RIPPrincePhilip
Only 16 pages in the Irish edition of the Daily Mail!

They cut 128 pages!
(pic via @CSBlenner)
“It’s a stretch to call him a feminist icon but...” @guardian
#dukeofedinburgh #PrincePhilip #RoyalFamily
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8 Apr
1/. In non-#COVID19 times, today would have seen the start of the world's remotest film festival, in a refugee camp deep in the Sahara desert

#FiSahara has a special place in my heart

10 years ago, 6 days & 6 nights in the desert, changed my life forever
2/. I'd gone as journalist to cover the festival, but had been struck by how little the world knew about #WesternSahara

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3/. When I got back to London - the sand still in my hair - I handed in my notice

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8 Apr
100,000 volunteers

10 miles each

The Million Mile Beach Clean is launching today
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This time lapse video shows how much plastic we found on a beach in just 2 hours in 2019.
#MillionMileBeachClean #MillionMileClean
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Before #COVID19 hit, it felt like the world was starting to wake up to the harm of plastics

But with the arrival of #coronavirus,
single use plastic is now seen as ‘safer’ & millions of masks & gloves are ending up in our oceans
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We cannot plead ignorance

We can no longer afford apathy

In the UK, each of us discards about 100kg of plastic per year, mostly in packaging

There’s a ‘trash vortex' / ‘plastic soup’ the size of Texas in the Pacific where there are 6 kilos of plastic for every kilo of plankton
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