👍 yes!! 👍 ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova
Read more about how Russia has been abducting countless numbers of children from occupied areas of #Ukraine – “a whirlwind of horror and illegality”: hrw.org/the-day-in-hum…
People wrongly using the word "America" to refer to the US?
Or people wrongly using the word "Europe" to refer to the EU?
(and I admit to having made both these mistakes on more than one occasion... 😬)
The one that annoys me most at the moment is when you see someone referring to "Europe's response to Ukraine" or "Ukraine is moving closer to Europe" or things like that. I mean, where do they think Ukraine is? South America?
What's interesting about this article - perhaps telling - is that it makes zero effort to even try to explain what the European Convention on Human Rights is. No explanation whatsoever.
I don't imagine the Telegraph is leaving it out because they assume all their readers already have a comprehensive understanding of the European Convention on Human Rights.
No, I'm guessing they - like the government - want the bogeyman word "European" to do all the talking.
But why would the government & government-friendly media not want British people to know what the European Convention on Human Rights does?
Why would they not want you to know it provides a safety net to individuals fighting for their rights against the authorities?
Meet Max Butkevych, a prominent rights defender & journalist in #Ukraine. Last year, he joined the military.
The joke “Supreme Court” of the bogus “Luhansk People’s Republic” (Russian-occupied territory) gave him 13 years’ imprisonment on fake charges. hrw.org/news/2023/03/1…
Russian military investigators built the bogus case against Butkeyvich. Russian authorities published a video of him in which his face looks swollen and the flesh around his eyes is dark and puffy. He stares into space & repeats what his Russian torturers told him to say.
There is abundant evidence that authorities in Russia-controlled areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions torture detainees and deprive them of all due process rights. Max’s “confession” was undoubtedly obtained by force, likely through torture.
3️⃣ Everyone should speak out against the increasing attacks on this vulnerable minority, or the attacks will only get worse. Those with greater influence have an even greater moral obligation to do so.
4️⃣ The government’s deplorable proposal is nothing more than an attempt to score political points by stoking fear and division.