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Jun 1 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I don't have any of the details of this situation in #Croatia yet (guessing it's more like she was arrested by Croatian police on an Interpol red notice??), but no country should ever extradite anyone to #Turkmenistan due to the risk of torture & disappearance in custody there.
If that is the situation, then hopefully the authorities in #Croatia will come to their senses soon. This kind of thing happens far too often: a brutal dictatorship abuses the Interpol system to try to get their hands on activists & perceived opponents abroad.
Oftentimes, it’s a low-level officer just reading things off a computer screen & detaining the person when the red notice pops up. Eventually, someone higher up sees the situation, realises it’s a dictatorship trying to abuse the international system, and releases the person.
Again, I don’t have the details of this specific situation yet, but - also again - no country should EVER extradite anyone to Turkmenistan. Hopefully, #Croatia’s authorities get this.
It would be great if some #Croatian journalists could look into this and find out what's happening.
At Human Rights Watch, we don't rank countries in terms of their rights records. (All countries need to do better.) But clearly, #Turkmenistan is one of the worst - down there with Eritrea & North Korea.

Read our latest World Report chapter on it:
bit.ly/3x5RWEH
#Croatia authorities "must refuse Turkmenistan’s request for Aysoltan Niyazov’s extradition and immediately release her from detention." - @amnesty
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

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In a couple weeks, Human Rights Watch will publish a new report on Russia's forced deportations of Ukrainians out of #Ukraine and into Russia.

Forcible transfers are prohibited under the “laws of war”. ie: #RussianWarCrimes.

In the meantime, here's some useful reading…

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Start with this @theipaper investigation by @deankirby_:

"Putin sends Mariupol survivors to remote corners of Russia as investigation reveals network of 66 camps"

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Meet Mikhail Iosilevich, head of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Nizhny Novgorod, #Russia.

Seems a bit absurd, maybe?

Not really.

What’s truly absurd is the 20-month prison sentence a court just gave him for affiliating with an “undesirable organization”. Image
Iosilevich provided space at his café for various civil society events.

In September 2020, Golos, an election monitoring watchdog, held a workshop for monitors at his café.

The police raided the event.

Because election monitoring is clearly “undesirable”, right?
Later that month, the authorities opened a criminal case against him, claiming that the event was organized by Open Russia, a group banned in Russia as “undesirable.”
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👉 Freedom means being able to send your kids to school, free from the fear that they’ll be murdered there.
Our American kids went to school every day for years, all elementary & high school.

And not once did we worry about them being killed in a school shooting.

Because they went to schools in Belgium.

Where laws make weapons of mass murder very hard to get.

👉 That’s freedom.
They never suffered through a terrifying “school shooter drill”.

They never practiced hiding under desks.

They were never told to play dead if a mass murderer was walking up the hall.

Because they grew up in a country that knows that’s nuts.
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Again, we ask why.

Again, we hear ridiculous excuses.

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Mass shootings do not happen every week anywhere else.

Only in the US.
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Only US politicians green-light the slaughter of children like this.

It will happen again and again and again…

…until people eventually stop electing these accomplices to mass murder.
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