🚨🚨Despite both county prosecutor’s pending motion for innocence hearing & DNA evidence supporting his innocence, the Missouri supreme court has set Marcellus Williams to be executed on September 24th🚨🚨

Here’s what’s happening & how you can help 🧵 This month- the Missouri Supreme Court scheduled the execution of Marcellus Williams for September 24th of this year for the 1998 first-degree murder, robbery, & burglary of Felicia Gayle

During his trial, the judge rejected testing of some DNA evidence found at the scene.

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty in 2020 & sentenced to 23 years but a shocking move was made as his conviction was overturned as announced today

Let me explain 🧵 Harvey Weinstein (72)- is an American film producer who was the subject of years’ worth of allegations of sexual misconduct. Eventually followed by his surrender to police being indicted on charges of rape & criminal sexual act in the midst of the #MeToo movement in 2018

🚨UPDATE🚨

From 2017- hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people have been forcibly displaced from Myanmar to Bangladesh due to ongoing ethnic cleansing.

Now, Bangladesh’s govt is refusing to take in more people. Let me explain what we know, we cannot be silent on this🧵

https://twitter.com/t_llulah/status/1725604906046742556

For context- the Rohingya people are a mostly Muslim ethnic group native to Myanmar (🇲🇲)

Despite this, they are denied citizenship under the 1982 🇲🇲nationality law. Often described as one of the most persecuted people in the world- their most recent mass displacement was in 2017

Vietnam’s former richest woman has been sentenced to death following one of the largest financial crimes in history

With evidence in 104 boxes, 200 defence lawyers involved, & a lot of sources in Vietnamese, let me explain what’s happening 🧵 Truong My Lan (pictured below), was chair of major developer Van Thinh Phat- which she & her family established in 1992 & was the most high profile arrest in a currently ongoing anticorruption drive in Vietnam

🚨SOUTH AFRICA MADE ITS CASE AGAINST ISRAEL IN THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE🚨

I’m seeing a lot of people talking about Israel & South Africa but not a dedicated explanation so I’ve created this this thread to hopefully make things easier to understand.

Let me explain 🧵





Thursday, January 11th, 2024- South Africa (🇿🇦) made its case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) where 🇿🇦's administrative capital Pretoria accuses Israel (🇮🇱) of breaching the Geneva Convention- the first legal instrument to codify genocide as a crime.

It’s been about a day & a half since Kissinger passed & the masses have celebrated.

His life & legacy will undoubtedly be used as a springboard for fascists who will follow in his footsteps.

Who was Kissinger? What did he do?

Let me explain 🧵

Henry Kissinger (formerly Heinz Kissinger) was a former American (🇺🇸) Secretary of State & National Security advisor under the Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford presidential administrations from September 22, 1973 – January 20, 1977.

~1 million Rohingya people are stuck in the biggest refugee camp in the world. Conditions are dire & the persecution of Rohingya is still ongoing. (sources at the end)

Let me explain 🧵





The Rohingya people are an ethnic group native to western Myanmar (🇲🇲) & despite being native- they are denied citizenship.

Prior to 2017- there were about 1.4 million of them living in 🇲🇲, they are predominantly Muslim, & have been facing apartheid since the 40s

Pakistan is in the process of expelling over one million Afghan people as of the first of this month many of whom have lived in Pakistan their entire lives & fear for their lives once they relocate.

Let me explain🧵:





As of October, an official deadline for all undocumented refugees & migrants to leave Pakistan (🇵🇰) was issued amid accusations by the govt that Afghan nationals had carried out 14/24 svicide bombings in 🇵🇰 in 2023, a claim denied by the Afghan Ministry of Refugees & Repatriation

🚨THE DEADLIEST EVENT ON EARTH HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS IN TIGRAY🚨

Right now, the same land where I used to play & laugh with family, is under attack by the Ethiopian government who are in active pursuits of wiping out the Tigrayan people!!

Let me explain 🧵





In 2018, Abiy Ahmed was appointed as the prime minister of Ethiopia (🇪🇹). During, he signed a “peace deal” with the Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki. In this deal, Abiy relinquished land to Eritrea (🇪🇷), including 1/3 of Tigray’s Irob region, with no regard to Tigray people