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@davidjohna.bsky.social
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LLM student (Human Rights Law and Legal Practice) and socialist. Particular focus on UK immigration detention.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Israeli courts have extended the arbitrary detention of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. On 27.12.24 Israeli military arbitrarily detained him, a paediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. His name was initially on the release list as part of the ceasefire deal. He must be released immediately.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Motaz Azaiza shared this video of a street in Gaza before and after the Israeli genocide started www.instagram.com/reel/DOGfKA4...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Real "I saw Lord Hermes dancing with the devil at the crossroads" energy. The whole report is that a lawyer, then in private practice, gave free advice to a charity regarding the law. And if anyone avoided deportation as a result? That would be because they were legally entitled not to be deported.
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Some reflection and counterbalance from, of all places, The Telegraph. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e67d46a...
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I’m a tax expert, and even I didn’t know about the rule Rayner broke
The mess our Deputy Prime Minister is in proves Britain’s tangled tax system needs reform
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A excellent brief on the granting of interim relief to Epping Council. freemovement.org.uk/epping-counc...
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Epping Council succeeds in interim relief preventing use of hotel as asylum accommodation - Free Movement
Epping Council has succeeded in obtaining an interim injunction to prevent the use of the Bell Hotel as asylum accommodation pending the final outcome of the
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The antiwar president wants to change the Department of Defense’s name to the Department of War. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Trump hints he will change Pentagon’s name to Department of War
“I don't want to be defense only,” the president said. “We want offense too.”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The fact that an anti-migrant politician, who tells us every single day that he doesn't like immigration, is saying it once again, is not in any way news
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This may explain why the Zionist regime bans all foreign journalists from Gaza. But the truth is out. www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I'm now blocking anyone stating that people protesting vs the government's ban on Palestine Action deserve to be arrested. Yeah, sure, it's an opinion and you're welcome to it. But if you can't understand what's wrong with arresting peace campaigners under the Terrorism Act, I have no time for you.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
British politics in all its diversity on display this morning
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
www.unhcr.org/uk/news/spee... UNHCR approval for the UK/France deal.
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News Comment: UK–France pilot arrangement | UNHCR UK
UNHCR welcomes the pilot announced today between the United Kingdom (UK) and France, aimed at addressing irregular movements of refugees and migrants across the Channel as an important initiative. If ...
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/10/c... Fascinating essay on the intersection between the ICC and ICJ - and how the two courts could work together.
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Palestine Action on X: "Wow. Elbit Systems, Israel's biggest weapons producer, has a quote from Nelson Mandela on their wall. A quote of a man who was once called a terrorist for fighting apartheid, on the wall of those who built apartheid in Palestine. https://t.co/T9XdaGSMTb" / X
Wow. Elbit Systems, Israel's biggest weapons producer, has a quote from Nelson Mandela on their wall. A quote of a man who was once called a terrorist for fighting apartheid, on the wall of those who built apartheid in Palestine. https://t.co/T9XdaGSMTb
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Philp ignores the fact that his Tory party scrapped the Rwanda policy before the general election. He also appears to forget that the Supreme Court - a sovereign UK court - ruled the Rwanda policy unlawful.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Your regular reminder that the editors and senior management of the Times are entirely comfortable with Phillips' deranged racism.
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Lots of calls for her to be stripped of her British citizenship, just like Shamima Begum. I'd urge caution. Denaturalising horrible people because we don't like them and it is geopolitically convenient isn't sound in my view. www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
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Bashar al-Assad's wife files for divorce, seeks to move to UK - report
Asma al-Assad moved to Syria in 2000 and married Assad in the same year at the age of 25.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The scenes from Sednaya prison in Syria are shocking; people wandering into the light after decades in dark detention & torture. I interviewed Omar Alshogre, a former Sednaya child prisoner, about his reaction to history being made in Syria this weekend. Watch/share/subscribe:
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‘We Fought Alone, We Dreamed Alone’: Former Syrian Prisoner on the Historic Fall of Bashar Al Assad
Syrian activist Omar Alshogre, who was tortured at Sednaya prison as a child, talks to Mehdi about this weekend’s astonishing events in Damascus.
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I wonder how long it will be before Israel accuses Amnesty of being Antisemitic... I salute Amnesty for producing such a detailed - and damning - report into Israel's concerted efforts to exterminate the Gazan population.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/leak...
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The new Attorney General on the rule of law publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/10/17/t...
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Will an independent inquiry really help prevent a recurrence of what happened at Manston? A Brook House inspection, published last week, suggests that absolutely none of the recommendations made by the 2023 Brook House Inquiry have been implemented.
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This latest report is pretty scandalous, given the vast amount of time and money spent just a few years ago on the Brook House Inquiry, which looked at shocking conditions there, exposed by the BBC's Panorama programme. It begs the question: did the Brook House Inquiry achieve anything at all?
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is the man who was dropped by the BBC for assaulting a junior member of staff. But am sure it'll be no bar to him joining the ranks of the Tory Party.
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Successive governments have refused to introduce a statutory upper limit on time held in immigration detention. The effect is that all those who fall foul of the UK's impossibly complex and ever-changing immigration rules face indefinite and arbitrary detention.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
srael has put the entire population of Gaza on death row. Its genocidal rampage has exposed the West’s bizarre hypocrisy. The ICC’s indictment of genocidal maniacs Netanyahu and Gallant is a rare ray of light in a world getting darker by the minute. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes
Joe Biden describes as ‘outrageous’ the warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister, which put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries
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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin. Khomeini died in 1989. Robert Jenrick wanted to be Tory leader, but doesn't appear very well informed about current affairs.
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
From yesterday: Inspection report concludes that Brook House is less safe than two years ago | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/inspection-repo……
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Inspection report concludes that Brook House is less safe than two years ago - Free Movement
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a report of an unannounced inspection of Brook House immigration removal centre. The inspection took place between
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Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
ChatGPT could have done better -dark day for humanity -outrageous decision -universal laughing stock -vibrant democracy -Iranian empire of evil -human shield for Hamas Has 🇮🇱President heard of #Deif warrant, or does he even care? Israel 'acting under IHL', seriously? Clichés, manipulations, lies.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Once again everyone you either respect the rule of international law or you don’t. You’re either a state party to the ICC or you’re not. The UK doesn’t have discretion in the matter here, yet this is exactly what it claims to have www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-lega...
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UK refuses to say if Netanyahu would be arrested on British soil following ICC warrant
The UK's International Criminal Court Act, signed in 2001, enforces compliance with the court
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I salute the ICC for resisting the quite staggering levels of intimidation they faced over this issue. The court hasn't swerved from its legal duty, despite attempts by some to undermine its integrity.
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davidjohna.bsky.social @davidjohna.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Transcript of an excellent speech a few weeks ago by Conor Gearty to mark the publication of Homeland Security. conorgearty.co.uk/2024/10/home...
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Homeland Insecurity. Launch LSE 24 October 2024 | Conor Gearty
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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Absolute Who's Who of human rights in one photo: Caroline Cassin Jacqui Mckenzie Raza Husain KC Former ECtHR President Robert Spano Dominic Grieve KC Jessica Simor KC Schona Jolly KC Andrew Cutting Joe Middleton KC Sophie Kemp Baroness Chakrabarti Conor Gearty Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC (Hon)
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