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30 Sep, 8 tweets, 12 min read
1/. “I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.”

This Saturday marks 3 years since @washingtonpost journalist, #JamalKhashoggi, was murdered in the #SaudiArabia consulate in Istanbul.
2/. Three years on, Jamal’s fiancée @mercan_resifi & the world are still awaiting justice

US Intelligence publicly accused the Saudi crown prince of ordering the murderous attack on #JamalKhashoggi

And yet @JoeBiden has taken no direct action against the prince or #SaudiArabia Image
3/. To mark the 3rd anniversary of
#JamalKhashoggi’s murder:

TODAY: @DAWNmenaorg’s virtual event with @AgnesCallamard, @NihadAwad, @GerryConnolly, @TawakkolKarman etc

TMW: Protest outside #Saudi embassy, Washington with @codepink

TMW: Vigil with @mercan_resifi & @freedomfirst ImageImageImageImage
4/. In July, it was revealed that #JamalKhashoggi, @mercan_resifi & others connected to #Khashoggi were spied on by #SaudiArabia using Pegasus software

After his murder they even selected the phone of Istanbul’s chief prosecutor for potential surveillance
5/, #JamalKhashoggi was murdered 3 years ago but these Saudis are still in jail

Samar & Raif Badawi

Sarah & Omar Aljabri

Abdulrahman al-Sadhan: 20 years in prison satirical tweets

@salman_alodah solitary confinement for advocating peace

And many more
washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?… ImageImageImageImage
6/. Today marks three years since #JamalKhashoggi was murdered

3 years without #JusticeForJamal

3 years of impunity for #Khashoggi's killers in #SaudiArabia

3 years without an independent criminal investigation into his murder
#JusticeForJamal
“The hardest part of those recordings are the noises at the end” @amnesty’s @AgnesCallamard

The murder case of #JamalKhashoggi continues in Turkey today

Recordings reveal what happened to #Khashoggi

WARNING: Graphic content

rsf.org/en/news/trials…
At least 3 members of a Saudi hit squad convicted of murdering #JamalKhashoggi are living & working “in 7-star accommodation” in a govt-run security compound in Riyadh, according to a source connected to senior members of Saudi intelligence. @martinchulov
theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…

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28 Dec
1/. #BREAKING: A Russian court has just shut down human rights group Memorial International

"The authorities’ use of the ‘foreign agents’ law to dissolve this organization is a blatant attack on civil society that seeks to blur the national memory of state repression" @amnesty
2/. “Shame! Shame! Shame!”

Crowd gathered outside the Supreme Court building in Moscow after the decision to shut down #Memorial, Russia’s oldest human rights NGO.

At least one protester was taken away by police
(Footage via @hrc_memorial)
#МыМемориал
3/. Memorial was founded in 1987, with Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov serving as its chairman

It consists of Memorial International, which deals with Soviet-era crimes, & Memorial Human Rights Centre, which deals with political prisoners in modern-day Russia (Pics David Frenkel) ImageImage
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27 Dec
"Are you interested in French cinema, at all, Ted?"
For those who don’t get the reference, it is a nod to the Fast Show Ted & Ralph sketches in the 90’s

The sketches usually involved excruciating attempts by a painfully shy & lonely impoverished aristocrat, Ralph, to strike up a conversation with Ted who worked on the estate.
The Ted and Ralph sketches were always poignant, but none more so than the 1997 drinking game sketch, one of the high watermarks of 90’s British sketch show comedy.
#TheFastShow
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26 Dec
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”

Veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, Desmond Tutu, has died”

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 & two years later became Archbishop of Cape Town #DesmondTutu #Tutu
The oppression & brutality of apartheid never dampened #DesmondTutu’s belief in humanity’s potential

“You can overcome some of the most horrendous circumstances & emerge on the other side, not broken, with the eagerness to spread goodness & compassion.”
Waking up to the news of #DesmondTutu’s death, then thinking back on his life, I was reminded of something I wrote last year:

“The heart is built to break
It breaks each day
The heart is built to fill with joy
It fills with joy each day”
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25 Dec
#BREAKING: Large numbers of turkeys have been gathering in towns & cities across the US & UK to protest against #Christmas

This footage shows 20+ turkeys circling a dead cat outside the home of Derek Clutterbuck, who runs the local butchers in Borcester.
This “gathering of the turkeys” was prophesied in 1704 by Isaac Newton

“And lo, in second decade of the second millennium, when dark-souled men who think themselves Gods have seized the seat of power, the turkeys shall gather & shall circle the dead cat” openculture.com/2015/10/in-170…
Jokes aside, in 1996 Carl Sagan warned:

“We’ve arranged a society based on science & technology, in which nobody understands anything about science & technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance & power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”

That time is now👇
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25 Dec
Merry Christmas from the Temple Church

Founded in 1119, this church was where the Magna Carta was drafted in January 1215 after King John was confronted here by the barons

Magna Carta was sealed 5 months later & would become the basis for Rule of Law, democracy & human rights.
“No freeman shall be taken or [&] imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or [&] by the law of the land”
MAGNA CARTA

Midnight mass at Temple Church is over

It’s #Christmas!
King John Lackland signed the Magna Carta in a water meadow called Runnymede near Windsor on 12 June 1215.

The treaty went on to influence key declarations of human rights & its principles of freedom, democracy & the rule of law still drives continuing protests around the world.
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23 Dec
1/. As an investigative journalist, people often approach me to use my skills to look into things

A recent example was this photo of John & Yoko

You might see it & not notice anything out of the ordinary, but for me something about their arse-cracks “didn’t pass the smell test”
2/. As an investigative journalist, one learns never to take things at face value

One arse-crack may appear to be longer than the other, but as the Muller-Lyer optical illusion shows, appearances can be deceptive

So like all good investigators, I turned to science & got a ruler
3/. By measuring their butt-cracks I was able to ascertain that this was no optical illusion

But whilst most people would have left it at that, I still wasn’t satisfied

I did further in-depth research & discovered this photo

This was proof that the other picture was...a fake!
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