1/. In 2020, while the world was focused on saving lives during the #COVID19 pandemic, some countries were busy taking lives.

Find out tomorrow as @amnesty launch the latest Death Penalty Report
#deathpenalty
amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/… ImageImageImageImage
2/. This stunning video using melting wax sculptures was used in 2017 when there were 993 executions worldwide

Last year, @amnesty’s #deathpenalty report found global executions declined by 5% to a decade low of 657 executions

Has that trend continued?👇
3/. “Globally, at least 483 people are known to have been executed in 2020”

“Shocking as this figure is, it’s the lowest number of executions recorded by @amnesty in a decade, marking a decrease of 26% compared to 2019” @AgnesCallamard @TIME
#deathpenalty time.com/5956795/global…
4/. In 2020, China remained the world’s leading executioner.

The true extent of the use of the death penalty in China is unknown as this data is classified as a state secret. Read more: amn.st/6010HNCfi Image

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22 Apr
1/. QUESTION: Would you buy grapes that were individually wrapped in plastic?
#EarthDay #EarthDay2021 #ClimateAction #plasticpollution #ClimateLeadersSummit
2/. You’d probably be outraged, like my friend Diane was! #EarthDay
3/. CONFESSION...

The ‘individually wrapped grapes’ in the video aren’t real...

But this footage from Haiti is...

And so was Diane’s reaction...

And so too was the outrage you perhaps felt....

It’s time to channel that outrage into action. #EarthDay
Read 12 tweets
18 Apr
1/. “How is it that scientists are not mystics? Cosmologists not poets? Biologists not shamans? How is it that those to whom the universe reveals such wonders, are not enraptured each day? And each night, how do they close their eyes on this?” (E Warner)
2/. “In the testes of every man are 200 million sperm

& each of those sperm is capable of producing a human life

& each in of those lives will be a soul

& in each of those souls will be a universe

& overnight, each man will produce 200 million more.”
3/. “You ask what I would do with those men who believe themselves to be Gods

My answer is simple

I would take them to the ocean & sail them three days out to sea in my rickety skiff, & I would watch their faces as a whale breached & barreled beside us.”
Read 7 tweets
16 Apr
1/. “Some may argue decisions made by the Dutch govt were just a series of errors of judgement. They were not. They were deliberate decisions. To allow the maximum number of people to get #COVID without overwhelming hospitals.”@SylvanaBIJ1

Sound familiar?
2/. The Dutch #COVID19 strategy mirrors the British👇

Described as “a masterclass in framing & gaslighting” PM Rutte announced in March their ‘strategy’ was #herdimmunity then tried to deny it

Is the involvement of shadowy company, Palantir, in both strategies pure coincidence?
3/. Palantir, who rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica about data scraping, are in charge of the #COVID Data Store in the UK together with #FacultyAI the firm Cummings used for the #VoteLeave referendum campaign

Palantir are doing the same in dozens of other countries #PalantirPlan
Read 9 tweets
14 Apr
“Happy birthday, Hugh Janus...er...”
@Nigel_Farage
Here’s the longer version
#NigelFarage > #HughJanus > #HugeAnus (via @benjamincohen)
This isn’t the first time #NigelFarage has been pranked

CALLER: I used to be an ardent remainer until something monumental happened that completely changed my view

FARAGE: What was that monumental thing, Mark?

MARK: I was kicked in the head by a horse!
Read 7 tweets
13 Apr
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.
@AFP u.afp.com/UQut #Darius
Darius may have been stolen to order by a rival rabbit breeder

He can command a £500 appearance fee at functions

He’s on a special diet & - without it - there are fears he may not survive

Darius looks a bit like this rabbit, only 170x bigger #FreeDarius
Wow! The missing rabbit has made it to the @nytimes

"He travelled across the UK for events alongside Ms. Edwards, who often appeared with him dressed as the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit. Darius was insured for $1.6 million 7 traveled with a bodyguard”
nytimes.com/2021/04/13/wor…
Read 5 tweets
12 Apr
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
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