#JamalKhashoggi: We know who killed him. We know who ordered his killing. We know who cleaned the crime scene. We know who and what surveilled him before his killing. We have the identity of every one of these men. And yet, 4 years on: impunity prevails. WHY?
Because Governments the world over chose to. Because Businesses the world over chose to. Because Sport Federations chose to. Because the Cultural and Entertainment industry chose to. They all choose to bury Jamal's killing. And with him human rights, values, press freedom.
Guess what? We are choosing to name the killers. To name all those complicit in the silencing and in the "let's turn the page." We are doing so for Jamal, for all those in #SaudiArabia detained, tortured and silenced, for all the journalists around the world risking their lives.
Jamal Khashoggi dared to dream; to dream of dignity for his people, his country and his region. He imagined means of expanding democracy in the Middle East. He spoke truth to power. He called out the spreading of hate through propaganda.
And so we keep fighting. For him and all others like him. We demand that the US releases all information on its investigation, including on Saudi digital surveillance. We demand the location of Mr. Khashoggi's body. We demand that free and fair trials proceed. We demand Justice.
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Great initiative by @RepAdamSchiff Jim Himes and House Intelligence Committee members: Demanding that State and Commerce departments should take more aggressive action against foreign commercial spyware including a ban on its use among democratic countries washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Many countries are using spyware around the globe, incl democracies. @amnesty has found NSO Pegasus spyware in the hacked phones of dissidents, journalists and activists. Diplomats and heads of States have been targeted too.
Pegasus spyware is also linked to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The company NSO is expected to become the subject of a lawsuit by his wife. It also already has faced trouble with investors.
I understand diplomatic theatrics. Respect it often. But on this occasion, it left me speechless. Hard to believe this statement is by the UN human rights chief and concerns China human rights records. The paragraphs on the Uighurs and Tibet are surreal. ohchr.org/en/statements/…
The only way forward is for the long-awaited report on Xinjiang to be released and the findings presented at the next meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in June.
Bachelet acknowledged that she received appeals from Uyghurs abroad regarding their missing family members and said she raised them with the Chinese authorities. Her office must follow up, insist that authorities guarantee detainees rights and regular contact with family members.
Wealthy countries with large vaccine supplies, are in a position to provide much-needed assistance to #Nepal. It would be an affront to our collective moral conscience to let this happen again, when we already know how it ends. My plea to @BorisJohnson: inews.co.uk/opinion/covid-…
The UK Government icould step in to provide assistance. Nepalese prime minister KP Sharma Oli has made a personal plea to the UK, as it’s “oldest friend”, to supply the vaccines it needs.
Time is running out.
The crisis in #Nepal is not the first and will not be the last.
To save lives now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson can lead by example by immediately providing the doses needed to fully immunise 1.4 million Nepalis. This isn’t an unrealistic request.
Today at #HRC#Canada delivered crucial statement on behalf of 43 countries, reflecting growing international concern over crimes against humanity in #Xinjiang. China’s authorities are NOT above international scrutiny. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Human Rights Council members must build on this statement to establish an independent, international investigative mechanism that can pave the way for holding to account those responsible for the human rights violations in Xinjiang. There’s not a moment more to lose.
Thanks to Canada Albania Australia Austria Belgium Belize Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Finland Germany Haiti Honduras Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Marshall Islands Monaco Netherlands
20 mois de travail sur le traitement en #Chine des minorités ethniques musulmanes du #Xinjiang ; 100 pages de preuves détaillées de crimes contre l'humanité, de violations massives des droits humains et d'une realite dystopique effarante.
Cela devrait choquer la conscience de l'humanité qu'un nombre massif de Musulmans soient soumis à la torture et à d'autres traitements dégradants dans les camps d'internement, alors que des millions d'autres vivent dans la peur au sein d'un vaste systeme de surveillance.
Des millions d'Ouïghours, de Kazakhs et d'autres groupes ethniques Musulmans du Xinjiang sont soumis à une campagne d'assujettissement et d'assimilation forcée, contraints d'abandonner leurs traditions religieuses, leurs pratiques culturelles et leurs langues locales.
20 months of @amnesty tireless work into #China treatment of Muslim ethnic minorities of #Xinjiang; 100 pages of detailed evidence of crimes against humanity, massive human rights violations, and a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale.
It should shock the conscience of humanity that massive numbers of Muslims have been subjected to brainwashing, torture and other degrading treatment in internment camps, while millions more live in fear amid a vast surveillance apparatus.
Millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups living in Xinjiang are subjected to a campaign of subjugation and forced assimilation, compelled to abandon their religious traditions, cultural practices and local languages.