Thread by @HillelNeuer

Update: the Twitter accounts of Amnesty International & its chief Agnes Callamard are still silent on the stabbing and attempted murder of Salman Rushdie last Friday by an admirer of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini whose call to murder Rushdie was reaffirmed by current leader Khamenei.

When Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders Qassem Soleimani & Mohsen Fakhrizadeh were killed, @AgnesCallamard, then a U.N. official, sprang into action within minutes of their deaths to condemn their killings as “illegal.” A week after Rushdie's stabbing—silence. /2

The silence of Amnesty chief Agnès Callamard is striking compared to how powerfully the same group had defended Salman Rushdie 25 years ago and called out Iran's radical Islamist regime. The contrast underscores the decline and fall of today's Amnesty. amnesty.org/en/wp-content/… /3

Note: our focus has been on the Twitter accounts of Amnesty International world headquarters and their chief Agnes Callamard, the gang that put out the scandalous Ukraine report celebrated by Russia. We did not examine the individual country chapters in 70 countries. /4

However, some country chapters were sufficiently shamed—in wake of viral tweets last weekend by @JSchanzer @FDD & myself—that they decided to issue statements. Let's examine them.

@amnestyfrance couldn't mention the words “Iran,” “fatwa” or “Islamism”:

https://twitter.com/amnestyfrance/status/1559477197227843585

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Amnesty Sweden's statement makes a passing reference to Iran's fatwa, but their tweet does not, instead universalizing the attack on Rushdie as a generic threat to free speech, and ignoring the context of the many similar Islamist attacks worldwide.

https://twitter.com/AmnestySverige/status/1559508330434859009

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One would expect Amnesty International, its leaders & country chapters to react to the stabbing by clearly condemning the Islamic Republic of Iran's fatwa to murder Salman Rushdie as a violation of international law. That's what old Amnesty did in 1997: amnesty.org/en/documents/m… /7

But that's not what we're seeing. It's either silence from Callamard at HQ, or feeble words from chapters. The belated 🇬🇧 statement did mention Iran's fatwa, but notably their tweet—keen to universalize it all—failed to condemn Iran or Islamist attacks: /8

https://twitter.com/AmnestyUK/status/1559187389779697669