It took the German Foreign Office 1.5 months to make a statement on the EU sanctions against me. Poor attempt to change the narrative while criticism against Germany & EU is growing.
And—what a coincidence—they made their statement exactly one day after we filed our appeal.
Suprise. Suprise.
Not a single mainstream journalist in Germany has contacted me since I was sanctioned. Despite the large number of journalists at the government press conference, not one of them challenged the government using the information I've been sharing on social media for weeks. Only @FWarweg asked the glaring questions.
Why didn't any of the journalists in the room ask this question: Hüseyin Dogru is ONLY a German citizen, so why is the EU insisting he is Turkish?
As a German they couldn't sanction me like this.
If I was white, those journalists wouldn't be so nonchalant. They've fought harder for right-wing press before.
Only one journalist—Warweg—has asked critical questions about my case. The rest stay silent when truth hurts the government. All of them - young, naive and old ones- this silence lays the groundwork for censorship. Remember 1933’s "Schriftleitergesetz"—the parallels are here.
Meanwhile, Germany’s media foot soldiers — @tazgezwitscher , @Tagesspiegel & co.—sat silent for a month. Not a single article.
Now, after the Foreign Office speaks, they suddenly show up to parrot the state’s narrative.
You are the state-controlled media you claim to oppose.
Without scrutiny, the EU and Germany are laying the groundwork for a censorship regime which will erase dissent before anyone notices.
Today in 1967, an entire mining town in Bolivia was massacred in its sleep because it pledged a few days' wages to Che Guevara.
The men who ordered it were trained and paid for by Washington. Almost nobody outside the Andes knows this happened. 🧵
The miners of Siglo XX voted to send Che's guerrilla two days' pay each, plus food and medicine.
President Barrientos heard about it. So on the festival of San Juan, as families slept off the bonfires, the army surrounded the camp and opened fire with machine guns and dynamite.
They cut the electricity first, so the miners' own radio couldn't warn anyone.
Rosendo García, 32, a communist union leader, was shot defending the station with an old rifle in his hands.
Official count: ~20 dead. The real number runs past 50, maybe 200 counting the disappeared
Did you know Britain had its own "Vietnam"? On this day in 1948, the Malayan War of National Liberation ignited — Marxist guerrillas against British colonial rule.
They burned villages.
They beheaded the dead.
Then they set fire to the evidence. 🧵
The British colonialists launched an anti-communist war 78 years ago today in the face of growing Malayan uprisings against the occupation. The Marxist guerrillas then moved into Malaya’s dense jungle, turning it into the battlefield of the liberation war.
The Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) was led by Chin Peng, who joined the anti-colonialist cause at the young age of 15. Many of the MNLA guerrilla fighters were veterans of the Malayan Peoples’ Anti-Japanese Army during WWII.
URGENT: Germany’s collective punishment of my family continues. They’ve now frozen my pensioner mother’s bank account, claiming I somehow “control” it too. Her savings are inaccessible — yet she has received no official notice from any German authority. No charges no due process
Support the international campaign to lift these illegal sanctions against me and end the punishment of my family and children by signing the petition.
Everyone should read this part of the @EUCouncil lawyers’ reply to my appeal before the General Court: they explicitly state they are not obliged to demonstrate current links to Russia in order to impose severe sanctions on a person — including me for my journalism
You think that was the shocking part keep continue reading:
"the Council may rely on "any publicly available sources" and need not await the result of police investigations."
Read that again.
Newspaper reports and open-source material can be enough to trigger sanctions.
In other words, as in my case: if newspapers, trade unions, and journalists in Germany run a disinformation campaign against you — even one not grounded in facts — it can still be used as the basis for sanctions, even when the allegations are factually wrong.
• We are married & have "three children together" — guilt by association
• She set up car insurance for our shared family car after my insurance was cancelled
Because of that I could control her accounts — and have therefore seized her funds.
The reason the EU sanctioned me was my pro-Palestine journalism and my work exposing Europe’s complicity in the genocide — all of it masked as Russia-related sanctions.