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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC

@caoilfhionn.bsky.social
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Human rights lawyer.

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BringRamiHome @bringramihome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On @lbc.co.uk watch international human rights lawyer @caoilfhionn.bsky.social expressing horror at the UK govt offering military assistance to #SaudiArabia, without seeking the release of Rami Naimi from his unlawful, inhumane treatment in Saudi Arabia #BringRamiHome youtu.be/7U_74scztB0?...
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Rami's case discussed on LBC with James O'Brien 22/09/2026
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The fantastic @caoilfhionn.bsky.social is interviewing former President of Ireland Mary McAleese on stage at ICCL’s 50th anniversary conference right now.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Usually I write about human rights, children's rights, cases, campaigns. Today, I've written about something far more personal. www.thejournal.ie/readme/grief... @thejournal.ie
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Loss of a parent: I spent 50 years preparing for my father's death, but it still came as a shock
For decades, Caoilfhionn Gallagher’s dad, Colm, defied every medical prediction. When he died recently at 80, the grief still arrived like a shockwave.
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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 Journalism is not a Crime When lawfare is used to harass, intimidate, or even lock up journalists. 🗣️ @caoilfhionn.bsky.social @mariaressa.bsky.social Moderator: Alessandra Galloni 🔴 Livestream on 6th May at sirharrysummit.org #sirharrysummit
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“Another institutional abuse”: survivor of Irish mother and baby institutions, who lives in London, can’t afford to accept compensation. Read more about my client Rosemary Adaser & the c. 13,000 survivors still waiting for action by the UK Government: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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International Journalism Festival @journalismfestival.com · 07/04/2026
📌 From Trump vs BBC to legal battles involving The New York Times, journalists are increasingly targeted by those in power. This session examines the growing use of legal intimidation to silence scrutiny and what it means for press freedom globally.
Promotional card for the International Journalism Festival 2026 (XX Edition, Free Entry), Perugia, Italy, 15–18 April. Session: "Journalism and the Law: Standing Together Against Rising Intimidation." Speakers: Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, Charlie Holt, David McCraw, Nevşin Mengü, Rebecca Vincent. Saturday 18 April. #ijf26. Website: journalismfestival.com.
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Helena Keleher @helenakeleher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Quite the breathtaking array of harms women and girls are at risk of really. Sometimes lately I can feel a bit cynical about rule of law but a read like this jolts you back into being glad to live somewhere that believes in it. 🙏⚖️
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Lonely Alphabet of Brave, Anonymous Women I’ve written in @irishtimes.com about women to whom we owe a great debt, but their names are never known. They fought for legal change, often at great personal cost, in anonymised cases - X, C, A, B, MZ, & many more. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher: X, C, A, B, MZ: I’m thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls
No one knows who they are, what they went through or the landmark legal change they secured, but we owe them a debt
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🔊 My latest piece for @thejournal.ie: ‘Dubai influencers - The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city'’ Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC writes about how some are responding to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East. www.thejournal.ie/readme/influ... #UAE #Dubai #Iran
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Dubai influencers: The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city'
As the death toll climbs, some Western expats in Dubai fret about golf courses, bottled water and weight-loss injections, writes Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🔊 My latest piece for @thejournal.ie: ‘Dubai influencers - The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city'’ Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC writes about how some are responding to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East. www.thejournal.ie/readme/influ... #UAE #Dubai #Iran
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Dubai influencers: The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city'
As the death toll climbs, some Western expats in Dubai fret about golf courses, bottled water and weight-loss injections, writes Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC.
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Foreign Policy Centre @fpcthinktank.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Further to the original letter sent 2 weeks ago to the PM, coordinated by the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, almost 40 more people have added their name; incl. Tony Gallagher, Editor @thetimes.com, John Battle KC (Hon.) Head of Legal and Compliance at ITN & human rights lawyer @caoilfhionn.bsky.social ⬇️
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Sebastien Lai spoke to Morning Ireland @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning. 🎧 Listen back: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #FreeJimmyLai
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Jimmy Lai's son: "We expected a very heavy sentence but it makes it no less devastating"
Sebastien Lai, son of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, discusses his father's 20 year sentencing in Hong Kong on Monday for "colluding with foreign forces" under the city's controversial national...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This week our incredible clients Jenni & Trevor Hicks launched a new campaign for ‘Hicks’ Rule,’ to rewrite historic legal wrongs. In 1992 the House of Lords (highest UK court at the time) ruled their two daughters died “swift & sudden deaths” at Hillsborough. They want to get the record corrected.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years for publishing a newspaper. www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/c...
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Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison after landmark national security trial | CNN
Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I spoke to Cian McCormack @news.rte.ie about Jimmy Lai’s disgraceful 20 year sentence. I thanked An Taoiseach for raising the case in China last month, & called on Ireland to now go further & call for Jimmy Lai’s immediate release. #FreeJimmyLai #JournalismIsNotACrime www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Pro democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been jailed for 20 years
For the latest Head of Jimmy Lei’s legal team, Caoilfhionn Gallagher.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Jimmy Lai: Response from his children, Sebastien & Claire, & from the international legal team to this predictable but nonetheless disgraceful sentence. Press queries: see contact details here & please direct queries through them. Thank you.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A reminder, following the conviction of Jimmy Lai, that two senior British lawyers—a former Law Lord and a former Supreme Court President—continue to lend respectability to the Hong Kong legal system by sitting as non-permanent judges on its highest court. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Jimmy Lai: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom
Rights groups dismiss ‘sham conviction’ of media tycoon on national security offences in city’s most closely watched rulings in decades
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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"In the vast majority of cases in which a journalist is killed, whether in peacetime, or in a democracy, or in a dictatorship, in the middle of conflict, wherever in the world — in nine out of ten cases they’re killed with total impunity.” @caoilfhionn.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
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Violent threats, ‘soft sexism’ at the Bar — and defending Jimmy Lai
A career representing journalists who are facing persecution has put a target on Caoilfhionn Gallagher’s back. It makes life complicated
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Doughty Street International (DSI) @doughtystintl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Jennifer Robinson and Associate Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social, act for the BBC World Service in this urgent appeal and in all UN engagement on the harassment and targeting of BBC News Persian staff and their families in Iran.
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Doughty Street International (DSI) @doughtystintl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
BBC World Service urges the UN to condemn Iran’s allegations of ‘media terrorism’ and ‘media warfare’
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BBC World Service urges the UN to condemn Iran’s allegations of ‘media terrorism’ and ‘media warfare’
The BBC World Service has today submitted a formal response to UN experts expressing deep concern over Iran’s new and extreme language used in relation to BBC News Persian.
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RSF @rsf.org · 04/12/2025
#HongKong: Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has been held for 1,800 days in solitary confinement — and his health has seriously deteriorated. RSF once again urges democracies to mobilise to secure his release, before the publisher - a British citizen - dies in jail.
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1,800 days behind bars: democracies cannot let Jimmy Lai die in prison
Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has been held for 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong — and his health has dangerously deteriorated. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) once...
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RSF @rsf.org · 04/12/2025
#Georgia: RSF condemns the authorities' smear campaign against the BBC after an investigation into the alleged use of a World War One-era chemical weapon against protesters. The pressure on sources and legal threats are unacceptable tactics from a government that claims to respect the rule of law.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is good to hear: @theglobeandmail.com reports that Jimmy Lai's plight raised by @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social at the G7 Foreign Ministers' Summit, and all agreed to work together to secure his release. An important show of solidarity by the G7 at a critical time in Mr Lai's case. #FreeJimmyLai
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today, my co-counsel in @mariaressa.bsky.social's case, Amal Clooney, met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Amal & George Clooney are in the Philippines for @rappler.bsky.social's Social Good Summit this weekend. Background: www.rappler.com/philippines/...
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Amal, George Clooney raise press freedom in meeting with Philippines’ Marcos
'I am hopeful that cases against journalists in the Philippines will be resolved in line with the right to free speech enshrined in the constitution and treaties that it has ratified,' says Amal Cloon...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Writing in @thenation.com December issue, @liamjscott.bsky.social writes about our work to #FreeJimmyLai. A renowned publisher, pro-democracy advocate, a husband, a father, a grandfather. As he turns 78, the race is on to free him and save his life. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai
How a globe-trotting attorney is trying to win the release of the famed Hong Kong publisher.
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National Child Protection and Welfare Social Work Conference @swconfucc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, human rights lawyer and Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, highlighting the need for greater investment in #childprotection services. Highlighting the understaffing of child protection services in Ireland with many more social workers required.
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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 22/10/2025
🟥 Georgia’s unlawfully imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been named laureate of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, shared with Andrzej Poczobut of #Belarus. 🔴“Imprisoned Journalists Fighting for Your Freedom and Ours" #RepressionInGeorgia
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Today the European Parliament announced the winners of the Sakharov Prize: two brave, brilliant journalists in jail for their work- my client, Mzia Amaglobeli (Georgia) & Andrzej Poczobut (Belarus). Congratulations to Mzia & Andrzej. Now to #FreeMzia #FreeAndrzej 🇬🇪 🇧🇾 @netgazeti.org My response:
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Today we are in the European Parliament to discuss the urgent case of my client, #MziaAmaglobeli, & the crackdown on media & the pro-democracy movement in #Georgia. Thank you to all the MEPs who are supporting Mzia, her colleagues, the Georgian people, & who are calling for action now to #FreeMzia.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 14/10/2025
Caollfhionn Gallagher KC remembers the superlative debating skill of the late Conor Gearty. He urged us to put ourselves in our opponents shoes and argue “‘That America needs Trump’; ‘Brexit is the right approach for Britain...’"
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The political prisoners club, and remembering Conor Gearty
My work takes me across the world, and I am always amazed at how those who have suffered such trauma spend time helping others
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 09/10/2025
Caollfhionn Gallagher KC reflects on the legacy of her friend Conor Gearty, who recently passed away... He “won every debating competition in sight... Debate breaks down certainty, forcing you to enter the mind of the holder of an opposing point of view.”
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The political prisoners club, and remembering Conor Gearty
My work takes me across the world, and I am always amazed at how those who have suffered such trauma spend time helping others
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 08/10/2025
Prospect’s latest issue hits newsstands today! Here’s a preview of what you’ll find inside... 🧵 Our cover story is by Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov, who argues that Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal—but Israelis refuse to see it: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I've written for the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk about some of the most inspiring people I know. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/hu...
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The political prisoners club, and remembering Conor Gearty
My work takes me across the world, and I am always amazed at how those who have suffered such trauma spend time helping others
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
USA, 2025.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
At the Clooney Foundation for Justice #Albies awards one of the winners, my client, #JoseRubenZamora, could not be there as he is unjustly imprisoned in Guatemala. His son @josecarloszamora.bsky.social brought an empty chair on stage for his dad, & he spoke so powerfully. #FreeZamora #ZamoraLibre 1/
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Press Freedom Center — National Press Club @pfc-npc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Today, the Press Freedom Center was proud to announce three new members of our Advisory Board: @caoilfhionn.bsky.social, Sam Feist, and Paul Beckett. Read the full advisory at the link: www.press.org/newsroom/pre...
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Press Freedom Center at National Press Club Announces New Additions to Advisory Board
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 – In a critical moment for press freedom around the world, the Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club today announced the addition of three new members to its Advisory Boar...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you to @rezaian.bsky.social & Bill McCarren for having faith in me, & appointing me to the Advisory Board of the Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, at this critical moment for press freedom globally. #JournalismIsNotACrime www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Press Freedom Center at National Press Club Announces New Additions to Advisory Board
/PRNewswire/ -- In a critical moment for press freedom around the world, the Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club today announced the addition of...
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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“Many people in the US no longer feel that it is a place of sanctuary.” At Truth Tellers, Human Rights Lawyer @caoilfhionn.bsky.social spoke about the new uncertainty many journalists now face in the U.S., and the precautions they now take when entering the country: tinyurl.com/4m7rnexu
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
“It is unthinkable that any child can fall through the cracks in this way, and be missing for years with nobody appearing to notice or care. It beggars belief that the unthinkable has happened twice.“ My piece in today’s Sunday Independent @irishindy.bsky.social www.independent.ie/opinion/caoi...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher: It beggars belief that another child is missing presumed dead — this is how the system needs to change
There are many questions and few answers about the little boy who is missing and assumed dead in north Co Dublin. We do not know his whereabouts, his cause of death or what happened.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today's daily roundup on journalism is out, featuring a new project from our Fellow @karenrebelo.bsky.social, an important piece by @caoilfhionn.bsky.social and news from Gaza, Nepal and the US Click to read, share and subscribe www.linkedin.com/pulse/journa...
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Journalism Today. 5 Sep 2025
Research | Reporting | Fellowships | Leadership 🗞️ Our top story Holding algorithms accountable. Algorithms now sit between people in India and their most basic rights.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I previously posted about important research by @ucddublin.bsky.social academics on CCP propaganda & use of the term "so-called" to describe things they don't like (other governments, international bodies, concepts - and me). The authors are here! @alexdukalskis.bsky.social @linettelim.bsky.social
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Jemimah Steinfeld @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The UK must act fast to save Jimmy Lai's life. Since 2014, 12 older male diabetic prisoners like him have died in Hong Kong prisons, most after late transfers. For yrs @caoilfhionn.bsky.social & her team have asked to meet Keir Starmer. No reply. Time is running out www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Jimmy Lai’s life is in danger
Keir Starmer has ignored requests to meet Lai’s barrister and his son, first made when he was leader of the opposition
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Jimmy Lai's life is in danger: my piece in @thetimes.com today. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... #FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome
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Jimmy Lai’s life is in danger
Keir Starmer has ignored requests to meet Lai’s barrister and his son, first made when he was leader of the opposition
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’ve lost count of how often Chinese/Hong Kong authorities or CCP State media have called me a “so-called human rights lawyer” leading a “so-called legal team.” I often play ‘propaganda bingo’ to myself when I read aggressive HKSAR statements which slam me/my clients/NGOs/other States/newspapers. 1/
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The Use of ‘So-called’ as a Propaganda Device in China | Journal of East Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
The Use of ‘So-called’ as a Propaganda Device in China
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Doughty Street International (DSI) @doughtystintl.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The legal team for Iran International is led by Mark Stephens CBE and Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC (@caoilfhionn.bsky.social), working with solicitor Ayesha Salim, Howard Kennedy, and barristers Tatyana Eatwell and Jennifer Robinson, Doughty Street Chambers.
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Doughty Street International (DSI) @doughtystintl.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Iran: UN experts sound the alarm over risk to the lives of 45 Iran International journalists and 315 family members. www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/iran-un...
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Iran: UN experts sound the alarm over risk to the lives of 45 Iran International journalists and 315 family members
United Nations experts have condemned Iran’s intensifying repression of Iran International journalists worldwide and their family members, and have stated that they are “deeply concerned by cre
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Sebastien Lai & I spoke to Bianna Golodryga on the #Amanpour show @cnn.com about Jimmy Lai’s trial, fears for his life & what to expect next. #FreeJimmyLai #JournalismIsNotACrime www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/T...
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Amanpour | CNN
Grammy award-winning musician Jon Batiste speaks with Bianna Golodryga about repatriating the work of Black artists and his latest album “Big Money.”
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ICARS - International Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion @againstrestraint.com · 12/08/2025
The children have spoken. England's children are telling the world what happened to them. It’s time England's lawmakers started listening and acting. #AgainstRestraint
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
In @independent.ie, @jodieginsberg.bsky.social & I argue the deliberate, systematic targeting of #Gaza’s journalists is not only an assault on individuals; it is an attack on truth & human rights. Ireland must do more, urgently, to protect Gaza’s journalists. ⬇️ www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher and Jodie Ginsberg: Why Ireland must lead the way in protecting Gaza’s journalists
Three years ago, just weeks after an Israeli soldier shot and killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the Taoiseach made clear Ireland’s unequivocal commitment to upholding press freedom and t...
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