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Q. What’s the worst day of the year for dictators, despots & populists?

A. Tmw ‘cos @amnesty release our annual report on the state of #HumanRights in 156 countries

DM me for a copy
(Video👇featuring @NazaninBoniadi, @angeliquekidjo @itspetergabriel @U2)
“It’s easy to feel hopeless in the face of atrocities & abuses but throughout the last year, people have shown we’re not powerless. We need less hypocrisy, less cynicism, & more action by all states to promote & protect all rights” @AgnesCallamard @amnesty
Respect for human rights around the world is deteriorating

@amnesty’s research indicates more than half of the states we monitored used torture or other ill-treatment

The annual report paints a disturbing picture of the global state of human rights today amn.st/6016O8EAO Image
The right to protest is under attack

Govts around the world have used aggression & violence against peaceful protesters to silence those fighting for their rights

As if to prove the point, today the UK govt is trying to push the draconian #PublicOrderBill through the Lords👇 Image
From targeted surveillance to internet shutdowns, govts around the world have made it increasingly difficult for people to exercise their right to protest

Yet despite the tear gas & the kettling, the rubber bullets & swinging batons, people are still on the streets
#HumanRights Image
In 2022, we've witnessed iconic acts of defiance

Countless times, people took to the streets to defend their rights

A reminder to those in power - we will never be mere bystanders when our dignity, equality & freedom is assaulted

See @amnesty’s report👇
Europe rightfully welcomed refugees from Ukraine, but didn’t have the same approach towards refugees arriving from the Middle East & Africa

@amnesty slams the West's "racist double standards" in its approach to refugees & in dealing with rights violations euronews.com/2023/03/28/amn…

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Mar 18
85/. #OTD 20 years ago, Iraq rejected the US ultimatum for Saddam Hussein & his sons to leave the country

The UN was obliged to pull its arms inspector out of the country

A massive military force was amassed around Iraqi borders

The stage was set for war
#IraqInvasion #IraqWar Image
86/. “As the US prepares to attack Iraq, it is doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Saddam Hussein that have been challenged - & in some cases disproved - by the UN, European govts & even US intel reports”

#OTD this @washingtonpost story was buried on page 13 Image
87/. #OTD “Operation Shock & Awe” began

The continuous bombing campaign involved around 1,700 air sorties (504 cruise missiles)

Over 7,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the bombing

Many more lives would be lost…
#IraqInvasion #IraqWar #Iraq20YearsOn
Read 13 tweets
Mar 7
1/. Tmw, Amnesty Turkey's former Chair Taner Kılıç & Amnesty Turkey's ex-director, İdil Eser, Özlem will be back in court facing absurd "terrorism" charges

@amnesty & @aforgutu will be there to demand their acquittal after almost 6 years of judicial farce
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
2/. These politically-motivated prosecutions aim to silence critical voices in Turkey

Over the course of 12 hearings, every allegation levelled against these human rights activists was repeatedly & comprehensively proven baseless

It’s taken a heavy toll
3/. This morning, two of my ex-@amnesty colleagues are back in court on absurd terror charges

They were arrested with 9 others, almost 6 years ago

2+ million people around the world have called them to be given justice

Today @aforgutu are at the court
Read 6 tweets
Mar 3
1/. On 5 March 2020, the BBC reported that a 70 year-old woman in Reading had became the first Briton to die of COVID19

Three years on - this Sunday - we mark #CovidMemorialDay by lighting a candle at 7pm & observing a minute's silence to honour the dead
covidmemorialday.org.uk
2/. One doesn’t truly recover from loss. If you are lucky, you will heal from loss. But never completely

Shakespeare warns that if we fail to "give sorrow words the grief will o-er wrought heart & bid it break"

#CovidMemorialDay we give our sorrow words
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
3/. In the UK, #COVID deaths became so entwined with politics that the simple act of grieving became almost a political act

But grief doesn’t care about politics

You could be left or right - @piersmorgan or @Piers_Corbyn - & feel the same need to grieve.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 1
Leaked emails show Matt Hancock ignored advice to test all people entering care homes during the pandemic

On 13/5/20, I broke the #CareHomeScandal👇

Three years on, these leaks reveal Hancock decided not to make it mandatory to test those entering care homes from the community! Image
“We stuck to the science like glue” @BorisJohnson

“We were guided by the science. We didn't always follow the science" HANCOCK

Cod behavioural science gave us “behavioural/lockdown fatigue”

Asymptomatic spread was ignored

Many errors were made…but these weren’t ‘mistakes’👇 ImageImageImageImage
The NHS is the most trusted brand in the UK

Cambridge Analytica is the least trusted

Yet #Palantir reportedly taught CA how to scrape data

Is the big plan deregulation in order to allow the hoovering up of genomic data to give levels of power & control only ever dreamed of?!
Read 8 tweets
Feb 25
Anyone on Twitter know what this might be?

A square of metal (iron?) embedded two feet beneath the soil, pulled up by a 350 year old fallen tree, on the ancient thoroughl-fare (now Mill Lane) that ran beside the River Fleet (Highgate Brook)
UPDATE: After some delicate excavation, it seems as if the ancient iron square exposed by the fallen oak is attached to an iron post (gate post?)

For a history of the River Fleet - London’s most beautiful subterranean waterway - see below👇
UPDATE: Curiosity got the better of me…

After two more hours of delicate excavation, the iron post was ready to give up its secrets

Interested @MuseumofLondon @CityCorpHeath @Tony_Robinson @sixteenthCgirl @Raksha_Digs @CarenzaLewis @sanditoksvig @GallagherBrigid @thetimeteam?
Read 8 tweets
Feb 15
1/. Last Sept, far-right Giorgia Meloni became Italy’s PM

Among her targets are refugees & migrants - a go to scapegoat for populists & neo-fascists

Today a decree will be voted on

If passed it will hinder NGO rescues at sea & result in returns to Libya
2/. The legislation risks resulting in more deaths at sea & is being introduced in tandem with a new ‘distant ports’ policy requiring NGO ships to disembark rescued people far from where they're rescued

The policy was ruled "unlawful" by an Italian court thelocal.it/20230213/itali…
3/. #BREAKING: The Italian parliament has approved Meloni's decree which will inevitably lead to more suffering

“These measures are clearly designed to hinder NGOs undertaking life-saving search and rescue missions in the central Mediterranean" @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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