“Whilst we celebrate todays decision to quash the convictions of Taner Kilic, İdil Eser, Özlem Dalkıran & Günal Kurşun, we don't forget that across Turkey many human rights defenders are languishing in jail, living in fear of arrest or facing similar prosecutions" @AgnesCallamard
“We’re responsible not only for what we say but what we fail to say by staying silent” @Snowden
“Egyptian ‘citizens’ attempted to derail & disturb the press conference giving us all a small sense of the regime of fears & silencing in the country right now” @amnesty’s @AgnesCallamard#FreeAlaa#SaveAlaa
1/ On the 5th anniversary of the Memorandum of Understanding on Migration btw Italy & Libya, @amnesty is call on Italian authorities NOT to renew this agreement which makes them complicit in the abuse & torture of asylum seekers in Libyan detention centres
2/. Since the MoU was signed in 2017,
100,000 people have been intercepted at sea & forcibly returned to #Libya
#Italy & the #EU have been helping the Libyan Coast Guard, providing financial support & technical assets
3/. The strategy of outsourcing of border control to Libya focuses on keeping people out of Europe
But #Libya doesn't have the capacity to coordinate rescues & people rescued at sea can’t legally be taken there due to the dire rights violations they there
When @DawnButlerBrent asked Hancock if he was aware of the rprtdly links between Palantir (who he allowed to run the NHS Covid data store) & Cambridge Analytica, he said:
“Er...um...er...I don’t think I was aware of that”
1/. On Sunday - the day of the #BrazilianElections & week before the start of #COP27 - a traffic island in front of the Brazilian embassy by Trafalgar Sq, London, will be transformed into a tropical rainforest, the first of many #RainforestIslands to spring up around the world...
2/. #Rainforestisland – a cornucopia of trees, plants & forest creatures – will be a platform for activists to gather throughout the #COP27 & is intended to amplify Indigenous voices who’ve yet again been excluded from their rightful place on the top table beside decision-makers.
3/. Indigenous communities have conserved & sustained our planet for thousands of years & are the true experts at protecting biodiversity
It is time for us to listen to them, not because they need our help, but because we need theirs! #COP27
At the Sept meeting that Sunak skipped, SAGE had advised a circuit-breaker lockdown
Scientists had also warned against #Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out scheme which is closely linked to rise in #COViD19 cases & likely helped trigger a rise in deaths among ethnic minority populations