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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Stop gas revenue reaching the Burmese military - tell Kurt Waldeland, the Chief Executive of SED Energy Holdings, to stop drilling for gas which funds the Burmese military. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar action.burmacampaign.org.uk/stop-gas-rev...
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Stop gas revenue reaching the Burmese military
SED Energy Holdings is a Cyprus based company using a loophole in EU sanctions to work on a gas project in Burma/Myanmar. The Burmese military earn tens of millions of dollars a month from gas revenue...
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Amnesty International Zimbabwe @amnestyinterzim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Notice a pattern? The world’s most powerful are repeatedly undermining international law and silencing people who oppose them. Everyone deserves a world where leaders put human rights first – every time. We all deserve better. A world where human rights come first, not last. #HumanityMustWin
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Political prisoners in Burma need your help! #blueshirt4burma On 21st April. Wear blue, post pictures on social media, call for the release of all political prisoners. Use the hashtag #blueshirt4burma. On Instagram: @blueshirt4burma #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The rivers, mountains and forests she defended continue to speak. Ten years after she was murdered, the people and the Earth demand #JusticeForBerta. Berta Cáceres didn't die, she is a seed and she multiplied🌱. #10YearsWithoutJustice #Honduras @COPINHHONDURAS @BerthaZuniga1
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Indian authorities have allegedly thrown 43 Rohingya refugees detained from New Delhi into international waters near the maritime border with Myanmar, forcing children, women, and the elderly to swim to safety with life jackets provided to them." #India #Rohingya maktoobmedia.com/features/ind...
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Indian authorities allegedly threw 43 Rohingya refugees, including children, into international waters near Myanmar
AI-generated image Indian authorities have allegedly thrown 43 Rohingya refugees detained from New Delhi into international waters near the maritime Indian authorities have thrown 43 Rohingya refugees...
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Rohingya Refugee News (RRN) @rohingyarefugee.news · 09/05/2025
The judges said India isn’t bound by the 1951 Refugee Convention - but the ban on forced return is now part of customary international law. You don’t need to sign a treaty to respect a life‑and‑death principle the whole world recognises!
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Rohingya Refugee News (RRN) @rohingyarefugee.news · 09/05/2025
India's Supreme Court green light for deporting Rohingya refugees tramples the basic rule of nonrefoulement: never send people back where they face persecution. India once prided itself on sheltering the vulnerable. This betrays that history. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/right-...
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Right to reside in India only for citizens, Rohingya must go: Supreme Court | India News - The Times of India
India News: The Supreme Court declined to halt the deportation of illegal Rohingya Muslim migrants from Delhi, emphasizing that the right to reside in India is ex
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 09/05/2025
The escalation of hostilities between India and Pakistan has already taken a toll on civilians. Amnesty is concerned by reports of loss of civilian lives in both India and Pakistan. In every armed conflict, protecting civilians is paramount. Read more 👇
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India/Pakistan: Urgent need to protect civilians amidst escalating hostilities
The escalation of conflict between India and Pakistan is taking a toll on civilians
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Amnesty UK Feminists @amnestyfeminist.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Concerning reports from Afghanistan. * Unaccompanied women refused hospital care * Unaccompanied woman not allowed in markets or shops * A woman lost her baby after cycling three hours in labour to access healthcare * A girl set herself on fire to escape a forced marriage to a Taliban fighter.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Three years ago today, Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces while reporting in Jenin. Her family, friends and colleagues are still waiting for justice and accountability 3 years later. Since then, the targeting of journalists and attacks on the press have only increased.
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Sophisticated Chinese weaponry, re-exported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been captured in Khartoum, as well as used in Darfur in a blatant breach of the existing UN arms embargo" - Amnesty #Sudan #UAE www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Sudan: Advanced Chinese weaponry provided by UAE identified in breach of arms embargo – new investigation
Sophisticated Chinese weaponry, re-exported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been captured in Khartoum, as well as used in Darfur in a blatant breach of the existing UN arms embargo, Amnesty Int...
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
HD Hyundai's machinery is used to demolish Palestinian homes in the OPT under Israel's apartheid system. The company must halt supplies to prevent complicity in human rights abuses. #GazaGenocide #Hyundai Take Action: www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...
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No Machinery for Apartheid
Act now and call on HD Hyundai to suspend the supply of its heavy machinery to Israel.
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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 10/05/2025
India Must Halt the Forced Deportation of Rohingya Genocide Survivors #Refugees
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India Must Halt the Forced Deportation of Rohingya Genocide Survivors
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Right now, the UK is deciding which countries will suffer from the huge cut in the UK international aid budget. UK aid to Burma saves lives. Email the UK government now calling on them not to cut aid to Burma. action.burmacampaign.org.uk/stop-uk-aid-... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Stop UK Aid Cuts to Burma!
Right now, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and International Development Minister Baroness Chapman are making decisions about which countries will suffer from the huge cut in the UK international aid bu...
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In the camps ARSA "recruits from among the refugees and engages in drug smuggling and other illegal rackets, while imposing a reign of terror where camp residents were killed for speaking out against the group". #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/they-dont...
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‘They don’t represent us’: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine
The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org · 07/05/2025
The latest U.S. sanctions should send a strong message to Thai authorities who must act against Saw Chit Thu and his family members. #JusticeForMyanmar👇🏽
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US Sanctions Myanmar Militia Tied to Cyber-Scams, Human Trafficking
The Treasury Department said Americans have lost $5.5 billion to scam operations run from Southeast Asia since 2022.
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Cyber Scam Monitor @cyberscammonitor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
MYANMAR: Sanctions against Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) and the family of its leader Chit Thu have been criticised for sparing his wife and daughter, according to media reports. 1/2 www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Over 108,000 Myanmar refugees in Thai border camps face worsening hardship due to aid cuts, leaving many without stable food supplies and struggling to meet basic needs. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.rfa.org/english/myan...
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Myanmar’s ethnic Karen face food shortages amid aid cuts to camps on Thai border
Children under five are living on just 5 US cents a day, aid groups said.
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Myanmar military has just continued its attacks on civilians during its "ceasefire" #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar ktnews.org/13-civilians...
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13 Civilians Killed and Over 20 Injured in Karenni State During Military-Declared Ceasefire, Reports Say -
By Kantarawaddy Times Despite the Myanmar military council’s declaration of a nationwide ceasefire, airstrikes and artillery attacks in Karenni State—including along the Shan-Karenni border—have resul...
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Special Advisory Council for Myanmar @special-council.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Breaking: War criminals announce extension of ceasefire that doesn't exist* *The junta has killed nearly 300 people in airstrikes since it announced its "ceasefire", according to NUG figures #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MyanmarEarthquake www.rfa.org/english/myan...
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Myanmar junta extends post-quake ceasefire despite repeatedly violating it
Junta airstrikes have killed nearly 300 people since the ceasefire began, the exiled civilian government said.
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"India has intensified its crackdown on Rohingya refugees recently, putting the persecuted community in Myanmar in agony." #Rohingya #NewDelhi maktoobmedia.com/india/dozens...
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Dozens of Rohingya refugees detained in Delhi, Activist says some taken to airport amid deportation fear
Dozens of Rohingya refugees living in New Delhi's Uttam Nagar have been detained in several raids since Tuesday night despite having refugee cards issued New Delhi, Rohingya refugees
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DVB English News @dvbenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The Independent Press Council Myanmar stated on World Press Freedom Day that a total of 40 media workers, including 7 women, are being held in prison. Another seven journalists have been killed since the 2021 military coup english.dvb.no/myanmar-medi... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Myanmar media faces severe restrictions and funding challenges on World Press Freedom Day - DVB
The Independent Press Council Myanmar (IPCM) stated on May 3 – World Press Freedom Day – that a total of 40 media workers, including seven women, are being held in prison nationwide. Another seven jou...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 03/05/2025
A threat to the press is a threat to accountability. This #WorldPressFreedomDay, join us in exposing the truth, and defending the right to report it.
Finger print with 'journalism is not a crime' written over.
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
"Testimonies From Beyond" Exhibition about the Myanmar military airstrikes targetting civilians. Familes have provided artefects from their loved ones as a memorial to those killed by the airstrikes. Currently showing in London till 6th May. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar More info:
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Feed: "Myanmar Now" By: kaung on Friday, May 2, 2025
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Magway sees deadly airstrike and resistance ambush
Civilian deaths mount as junta launches air raids while resistance fighters target military columns
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Feed: "Myanmar Now" By: kaung on Friday, May 2, 2025
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Myanmar regime bombs Kachin ‘jungle hospital’ three times in one week
The attacks have forced the hospital, run by the renowned CDM surgeon Dr. Soe Min, to temporarily suspend operations
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SDHAB 🟥🟪🟦 Midterms Motivated @sdhab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study | Global development | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/global-devel... THIS is UNACCEPTABLE
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Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study
Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“The authorities must act decisively in the face of the increasing threats against those defending the human rights of Haitian migrants, Dominicans of Haitian descent affected by statelessness and Afro-descendants." #DominicanRepublic www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Dominican Republic: The fight against racism must be respected and protected by the authorities
We call on the Dominican authorities to respect and guarantee the human rights of those who fight against structural racism in the country.
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Ecuador's Constitutional Court dismissed a protection action by the Warriors for the Amazon, failing to enforce a 2021 ruling on eliminating gas flares and reparations. The Ecuadorian Amazon is burning with toxic flares. #Ecuador www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Ecuador: Justice has failed the Warriors for the Amazon, but their fight continues
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador dismissed an extraordinary action for protection and does not guarantee justice and effective reparation for the Warriors for the Amanzon and their communities.
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 26/03/2025
The Pakistani govt plans to arbitrarily and forcibly expel Afghan nationals, including refugees and asylum seekers, as part of the ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’, scapegoating a community that has long been disenfranchised and fled persecution.
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Pakistan's opaque ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’ targeting Afghan refugees must be withdrawn immediately
The opaque ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’ targeting Afghan refugees must be immediately withdrawn in Pakistan
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 26/03/2025
Last month, President Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions on the ICC and its Chief Prosecutor. The US sanctions pose a dire threat to the ICC, as well as to the broader international rule of law and its multilateral system. Here's what you need to know 👇
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What do the Trump administration’s sanctions on the ICC mean for justice and human rights?
On 6 February 2025, United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This Executive Order is intended to stop the ICC from undertaking its independent mandate. It also poses a significant threat to the ICC and its staff.  UN experts […]
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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨Four years after attempted coup, junta continues to target health workers in #Myanmar. At least 135 have been killed, over 860 jailed, and hospitals bombed. Myanmar is now one of the most dangerous places in the world for medical professionals. www.rfa.org/english/myan...
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The victims included patients, clinic staff, and the doctor and his pregnant wife and child Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/11-c... Follow us on Bluesky for more news updates! bsky.app/profile/myan...
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Insight Myanmar Podcast @insightmyanmar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Meet Don Tajaroensuk, a Thai human rights advocate for Burmese migrants. From childhood lessons in empathy to frontline activism, he’s changing perceptions and policies. Don’t miss this conversation:
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Episode #320: Running on Empty — Insight Myanmar
A Lost Highway: How Mae Sot Became the Last Stop for Myanmar's Displace
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 26/03/2025
Hosted by @ire-nicar.bsky.social, the recent NICAR 2025 data journalism summit unpacked a treasure trove of investigative tools and techniques for the 950 attendees and data experts gathered in the US city of Minneapolis. twp.ai/1VmYnN
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From NICAR25, Four Free Cutting Edge and Time-Saving Investigative Data Tools
GIJN shares some of the no-cost, easy-to-use data tools that NICAR25 conference panelists described as surprisingly useful but unknown by investigative reporters.
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As European and other leaders come together to affirm their determination to defend Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression, Amnesty calls on them to prioritize justice for Ukraine and center their proposals on human rights protection for all. #Ukraine www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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World leaders must resist all who undermine the international legal order
They must prioritize human rights and justice for Ukraine at the Paris summit
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The expulsion of 238 individuals to El Salvador, despite a court order, shows a disregard for human rights and signals a dangerous move toward authoritarianism in the USA, supporting President Bukele's harsh security agenda. #Venezuela #ElSalvador #USA www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Unlawful Expulsions to El Salvador Endanger Lives Amid Ongoing State of Emergency
The expulsion of 238 Venezuelans from the USA to El Salvador represents a step toward authoritarian practices in both the Trump administration and Bukele's security policies.
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Amnesty Business & Human Rights @amnestybhr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Major new report published today.
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 25/03/2025
Hamdan Ballal was forcibly disappeared by Israeli soldiers after having been assaulted by Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in Susyia, a village in the occupied West Bank. He has now been released, but those who carried out the attacks must be held accountable.
within 24 hours Israel forcibly disappeared a Palestinian filmmaker in the West Bank
and killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza
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Amnesty Ealing @amnestyealing.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The UK government have reversed their decision (temporarily) to withdraw funding from Islamaphobia monitoring group @tellmamauk.bsky.social. This is welcome news when anti-Islam prejudice and rhetoric is at a an all-time high in the UK. tellmamauk.org/tell-mama-is...
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Tell MAMA is a Key Partner With Government on Tackling Anti-Muslim Hatred
On 8th March 2025, The Observer published an article on the future of Tell MAMA’s work which had been supported for 11 years by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
AAPP has launched its new report, "highlighting the inherently repressive colonial legislation that has been amended, enacted and weaponized by the junta to systematically commit a campaign of terror against the people of Burma." #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar aappb.org?p=31836
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AAPP Launches its New Report on Justice, the Judiciary and the Weaponization of Law to Repress Civilians in Burma
Today, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners launches its new report, highlighting the inherently repressive colonial legislation that has been amended, enacted and weaponized by the junt...
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Amnesty International Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid told AFP on Saturday an investigation must be opened, saying there was a risk that being a journalist in #Indonesia would become "like a death sentence". #ProtectJournalists
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
'One of Yunseo Chung's attorneys said that the Trump administration's "efforts to punish and suppress speech it disagrees with smack of McCarthyism."' #USA #ProtectProtests #FreeSpeech
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Under the hostage justice system, criminal suspects are denied due process and a fair trial, and may be detained for months or years on vague grounds, especially if they do not confess." #Japan @hrw.org @hrw-jp.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
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Survivors Bring Case to End Japan’s ‘Hostage Justice’
Four survivors of Japan’s “hostage justice” filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, contending that the Code of Criminal Procedure provisions allowing prolonged pretrial detention and...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 24/03/2025
A dark time for democracy in Türkiye. The order to detain Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is the latest example of the justice system being weaponized to cancel the democratic process. His detention violates the rights of millions of Istanbul voters.
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Amnesty International urges Turkish authorities to stop using excessive force on peaceful protesters and investigate police violence amid growing protests over the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. #Turkey #Türkiye #ProtectTheProtest ✊ www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Türkiye: Unlawful and indiscriminate attacks on peaceful protesters must end and protest bans must be lifted immediately
Turkish authorities must end the use of unnecessary and indiscriminate force by security forces against peaceful demonstrators and investigate unlawful acts of violence committed by police against pro...
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Urge the European Union to act #WithHumanity and save lives at sea. @hrw.org Take action 👇
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AmnestyRedhill @amnestyredhill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Opposition Leader Dutton’s proposal to give Ministers discretionary power to extinguish the citizenship of dual nationals convicted of a crime, in order to deport them is an extreme and reactionary proposal that will have dire, far-reaching consequences." www.amnesty.org.au/duttons-depo...
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Dutton’s deportation referendum would see some Australians become second-class citizens and cruelly target former refugees
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to change the Australian constitution to give Ministers discretionary power to extinguish the citizenship of
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