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Jun 16 • 9 tweets • 12 min read
1/. Two months after the prominent human rights defender Osman Kavala began a life sentence on trumped up charges alongside 6 others jailed for 18 years each for ‘assisting’ him, a high level @amnesty delegation will visit all 7

We’ll hold a press conference tmw 1pm #Turkey time ImageImageImageImage
2/. “What’s happening is entirely contrary to human rights”

In 2014, @amnesty interviewed architect @MucellaYapici while she was facing her first prosecution for the 2013 #GeziPark protests in Turkey

Today, her words are even more poignant
#FreeTheGezi7
4/. In 4 hours @aforgut’s press conference will start in Istanbul

There will be an important announcement

Ystdy, messages of solidarity from @amnesty’s Secretary General @AgnesCallamard’s were delivered to the #Gezi7 in prison

More detail to come
#FreeTheGezi7 #GeziİçinAdalet Image
5/. #BREAKING: Seven people who were imprisoned in Turkey on trumped-up charges - including #OsmanKavala - have been named prisoners of conscience (POCs) by @Mnesty #BREAKINGNEWS #FreeTheGezi7 #FreeRightsDefenders # Gezi amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
6/. “We are the visible part of the iceberg” @amnesty’s @keremdikmenn reads a message from jailed human rights defender, #OsmanKavala

In a video played at the press conference in #Turkey, @AgnesCallamard has just declared all of the #Gezi7 prisoners of conscience
#FreeTheGezi7 ImageImageImageImage
7/. Why have @amnesty named the #Gezi7 - imprisoned in #Turkey on trumped up charges - as prisoners of conscience?

Who are the seven?

✊ Can Atalay
✊ Çiğdem Mater
✊ Hakan Altınay
✊ Mine Özerden
✊ Osman Kavala
✊ Mücella Yapıcı
✊ Tayfun Kahraman
amnesty.org/en/latest/camp…
8/. At a film premiere in #Cannes, one solitary chair was empty as the film’s associate producer Çiğdem Mater, was absent from the red carpet

Far from La Croisette, she was in a cramped prison cell, one month into an 18-year jail term. @AgnesCallamard
politico.eu/article/turkey…
9/. “Conscience is what stands in the way of irrationality, It’s what prevents people from acting out of revenge or out of political ambition”

@AgnesCallamard quotes jailed philanthropist, #OsmanKavala, in final paragraph of #MustRead OpEd. #FreeTheGezi7 amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
10/. “Today we recognise the chronicle of injustice the #Gezi7 have suffered beginning with arbitrary detention & politically-motivated prosecutions & ending in a show trial & convictions. The injustice is emblematic of that suffered by so many in Turkey” @AgnesCallamard @amnesty

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Jun 16
“He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds”

50 years ago, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust fell to Earth

Due to environmental destruction, humanity had reached its final 5 years of existence & Ziggy had come to tell us “not to blow it”
2/. Beneath a hedonistic facade, Ziggy’s message - & Bowie’s - was one of peace & love “‘cos he knows it's all worthwhile”

Like Lennon’s Imagine released the year before👇, the message was aimed at the young: the generation in whose hands the future lies
3/. “All people, no matter who they are, all wish they'd appreciated life more. Its what you do in life that's important, not how much time you have, or what you wish you'd done. Life is fantastic” BOWIE

Soon @brettmorgen’s #MoonageDaydream will be out

We’re also making a movie
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Jun 13
A good day for journalism!

The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has lost his libel action against the Observer and @Guardian journalist @carolecadwalla, which was criticised as an attack on free speech. @Haroon_Siddique
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
“It hasn’t sunk in yet but…SOME NEWS. I am so profoundly grateful & relieved. Thank you to the judge, my stellar legal team & the 29,000 people who contributed to my legal defence fund” @carolecadwalla

Here’s the @TEDTalks Banks tried to sue her for👇
“My investigation into Brexit, Cambridge Analytica & Facebook triggered investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, record-breaking fines & findings of multiple breaches of the law, incldg by Banks's LeaveEU campaign. But I’m the only person to ever face trial.” @carolecadwalla
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Jun 9
1/. In 2019, students at #METU university in #Turkey gathered for their annual #Pride  march

They were met with batons, tear gas, plastic bullets, pepper spray & arrest

Tmw, they will gather for Pride again

The university says they will call the police
2/. The university’s attempt to ban on this Pride march has no legal grounds

METU university authorities must reverse this decision & allow the student community to celebrate #Pride tmw

@amnesty will be on campus
#PrideMonth #Pride2022 #pridemonth2022
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
3/. Join @amnesty in calling on the @METU_ODTU administration to reverse its decision to 'categorically ban' the planned campus-based #Pride march due to take place tmw

Please sign and share the urgent action appeal #Pride2022 #PrideMonth #pridemonth2022
amnesty.ie/metu-pride-tur…
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Jun 7
Too often govt ministers & MP are allowed to get away with the absurd claim that - on #COVID19 & #Brexit - the govt/#BorisJohnson “got all the big calls right”

Here @skysarahjane gives a masterclass in challenging this narrative (with MP @PeterBoneUK)
And this by @vicderbyshire

Another masterclass showing journalists how to hold the powerful to account

MPs are trained on ways not to answer uncomfortable questions

One method loved by many is to keep talking

A mute button is very useful here
“This will also do great damage to organisations like the BBC!”

In response to journalistic scrutiny, the govt often accuse the journalist, programme or even channel of bias

As we’ve seen with the sell off of @Channel4, these are not just hollow threats
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Jun 7
1/. For too long, homelessness has been explained as the failure of the individual to cope with the stresses & strains of life

We see it for what it is: a failure of the state to guarantee equality of opportunity, equal access to essential services to all amnesty.org.uk/resources/amne…
2/. "England’s housing and homelessness system is effectively a gruelling obstacle course

Many fail to get past the first barrier because they are not considered eligible for homelessness support

Others fall through trap doors along the way"
@AmnestyUK
amnesty.org.uk/files/2022-06/…
3/. Three in 10 fear homelessness within five years due to housing costs, according to an @AmnestyUK survey.

Unless housing is rightfully recognised as a basic legal human right, there is no way to hold the Government to account for its woeful failings.
standard.co.uk/news/uk/englan…
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Jun 6
Journalist Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to @guardian, has been missing in the Javari Valley in the #Brazilian Amazon for more than 30 hours after death threats to his indigenista companion, Bruno Pereira, who is also missing #IndigenousHistoryMonth theguardian.com/media/2022/jun…
'We knew it was a dangerous place but Dom really believed it’s possible to safeguard the nature & the livelihood of the Indigenous people. We urge Brazilian authorities to do all they can to help”

Appeal by the sister of missing journalist Dom Phillips
theguardian.com/world/video/20…
A record number of activists working to protect the environment & land rights were murdered in 2020 & 2019 according to @Global_Witness

Almost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource exploitation

Indigenous populations bear the brunt of the deadly violence ImageImageImageImage
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