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Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
#Turkey The charges & the trial of #OsmanKavala have been a farce, a naked attempt to silence a critic. Neither the ECtHRjudgment, the @coe sanction or the clear evidence of Kavala have brought him justice.

A devastating verdict, for Kavala, but also for Turkey’s justice system.
My thoughts are with #OsmanKavala, his co-defendants and all of their families and loved ones as this awful verdict reaches them.

Beyond devastating for them, and so many around the world who hoped there may yet be a sliver of hope. #Turkey

Courtroom sketch: @murattbasol Image
“We won’t surrender”: Human rights lawyer, Can Atalay, defiant in the Istanbul courtroom after the #OsmanKavala verdict #GeziDavası #GeziTrial

Justice denied flagrantly, shockingly.

A harsh blow also for all who hoped for justice & the rule of law to prevail in Turkey today.
#Turkey

The scale of the injustice today. #GeziDavası #GeziTrial

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Apr 21
Seriously, why would a British Prime Minister visit & pose on a JCB bulldozer as India suffers a wave of appalling violence where the homes & businesses of Muslims are illegally demolished by bulldozers? The Supreme Court heard this today.

The optics, the messaging - dreadful.
The grave reality on the ground in India is a marked erosion of human rights and the rule of law & the normalisation of hostility towards minority communities by means of deliberate laws and practices. Here the former @FT India correspondent gives an eg of that normalisation.
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Apr 14
Just caught up with the full Rwanda announcement. Full of ill-thought through contradictions, no workable detail and so unethical, never mind very vulnerable to legal challenge, the latter may well be the point. Blame the foreigners, blame lawyers, blame the law, leave the ECHR…
Incredibly depressing, if now predictable, to see the govt cynically treating law & lawyers upholding the law, (domestic & international) & the rights of vulnerable people, as fair political game, again.

A deliberate unravelling of confidence in those that hold them to account.
Imagine if Johnson had described this country’s “formidable army of lawyers” as a credit to the country he boasts is world-leading, essential to its strong rule of law traditions, acting in their client’s best interests before a confident, independent judiciary…imagine that.
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Apr 13
Quite apart from the inhumanity & lack of ethical policy, or the naked cynicism, or irony in Johnson complaining about unlawful activity, who does he plan to send to Rwanda? The Ukrainian refugees his govt hasn’t processed, the Afghan refugees still stranded in hotel lobbies…?
When the details of this new low in British policy are announced tmw, Johnson must be grilled on the crucial *details* of offshoring e.g.
- is this indiscriminate or to whom will it apply?
- safeguarding for vulnerable people & minors?
- permanent or temporary?
- cost? Etc.
Important to view this new offshoring plan alongside the government’s #NationalityAndBordersBill.

UNHCR: Bill would penalise most refugees seeking asylum in the UK, creating an asylum model that undermines established international refugee protection rules & practices.
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Mar 30
UKSC judges Lords Reed & Hodge have resigned with immediate effect from Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal - saying they can’t continue to sit without appearing to endorse an administration which has departed from political freedom & freedom of expression. supremecourt.uk/news/role-of-u…
Many are asking - why now?

Foreign Sec Truss has claimed responsibility in saying the “benefit they bring to the court as excellent jurors is now outweighed by the risk of legitimising a system that enforces Beijing’s laws, which are being used as a tool of oppression.”
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The threats, like the sanctions against UK lawyers & parliamentarians are outrageous.
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Mar 16
International law has been brought sharply into the spotlight today.

1. The ICJ found strongly in favour of Ukraine’s arguments vs Russia in stark & direct language.

2. ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC physically visited Ukraine.

3. The CoE cast out Russia with immediate effect.
ICJ ordered the following provisional measures - the Russian Federation:-

1. shall immediately suspend the military operation in the territory of Ukraine

2. Shall ensure any military/irregular armed units directed or supported by it..take no steps to further such operation. 👇🏼 Image
See here to the link for a summary of the @CIJ_ICJ order indicating provisional measures in the case brought by Ukraine v Russia.
icj-cij.org/public/files/c…

And here for a succint analysis of what the judgment entails 👇🏼
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Jan 25
This is no way to run a country.

Not least in a pandemic, in a climate crisis, in a cost of living crisis, in a grave international crisis, in the Brexit crisis created by those running the country.
In all seriousness, someone just told @Channel4News that the Prime Minister was “ambushed with cake”.

With a straight face.
The lack of direction, leadership, integrity and focus at the heart of government is the clear fault and responsibility of the Prime Minister.

A Prime Minister apparently “ambushed with cake”.
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