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Our mission as a global Human Rights charity is to give free and independent legal representation to those who cannot fight for themselves. ⚖️ 🌏 www.JusticeUpheld.org.uk

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IBA's Human Rights Institute @ibahri.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#HongKong: IBAHRI and partners express grave concern for #HumanRights barrister #ChowHangtung, who has been arbitrarily detained and subjected to solitary confinement under HK's National Security Law for her role in organising the peaceful Tiananmen vigil in 2020-21. Read: tinyurl.com/2888pb6n
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
War crimes are no longer shameful, and that should terrify us all.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
War crime after war crime.
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026
"The school bombing has been described by Unesco as a “grave violation” of international law, and Human Rights Watch has called for it to be investigated as a war crime" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Video shows US Tomahawk missile hit base next to bombed Iranian school
Footage of attack on Minab compound adds to evidence indicating it was a US strike that killed scores of children
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Lawyers for Lawyers @lawyersforlawyers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🚨 #HongKong: together with partners, we express our grave concern regarding the arbitrary detention, solitary confinement and ongoing prosecution of renowned human rights barrister #ChowHangtung. We call for her immediate and unconditional release. 🔗Read the full statement tinyurl.com/kn7ausxw
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Arbitrary detention, solitary confinement and ongoing prosecution of barrister Chow Hang-tung in Hong Kong - Lawyers for Lawyers
Lawyers for Lawyers joins the undersigned legal and human rights organisations in expressing grave concern regarding the arbitrary detention, solitary confinement and ongoing prosecution of renowned h...
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
International Women’s Day has been CANCELLED! #IWD26 #WomensRights
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
International Women’s Day has been CANCELLED! #IWD26 #WomensRights
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
NEW: The ‘Lead Case’ On March 3rd, the first group of Lift The Ban campaigners attended westminster magistrates court for a case management hearing. They’re charged under the UK Terrorism act for holding a paper sign. Here’s how it went - short🧵
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It’s always the innocent civilians that pay the price for the failures of politicians. #HumanRights
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you don’t know your human rights, you can’t defend them. ⚖️✊
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you don’t know your human rights, you can’t defend them. ⚖️✊
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Please learn the signs of child exploitation. 🙏🏽
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
At Justice Upheld we see the human cost of child exploitation behind the headlines.
This orange and black image is from the human rights charity Justice Upheld describing child exploitation.

At the human rights charity Justice Upheld, we see the human cost of child exploitation behind the headlines. 

Children coerced into carrying drugs across county borders.

Children manipulated into sexual exploitation through emotional control.

Children criminalised for crimes they were groomed into committing.

What is sometimes dismissed as naughty kids or teens going off the rails, is sometimes structured, strategic, often invisible exploitation.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
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🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
14 years?!?! WTAF!! State abuse!
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⛧ Rev.Underskor ⛧ @goodgryphrev.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The dangerous anti-LGBT+ bill is back in Ghana, with stronger political support. We stopped it once. Let’s stop it again. Sign to defend equality and human rights. a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/ We need to make this world worth living in.
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Ghana: Reject The Anti-Lgbt+ Bill!
The anti-LGBT+ bill is back in Ghana, and this time, it has stronger political backing. We stopped it before, and together we can stop it again. Sign now to protect LGBT+ rights.
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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“There has been case after case of Palestinians, including hundreds of children, swept up in the Israeli military justice system, where they are not only denied basic rights of due process but subjected to systematic physical and psychological abuse,” the lawmakers wrote in the 16 February letter.🔥🇵🇸
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US lawmakers demand accountability for Palestinian-American teen detained in Israel
Exclusive: 15 Congress members write to Marco Rubio about nine-month detention of Mohammed Ibrahim
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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 18/02/2026
Bodies believed to be migrants wash ashore in Italy after storms #Refugees
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Bodies believed to be migrants wash ashore in Italy after storms
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Police spent ‘astonishing’ £10m tackling Palestine Action Huda Ammori, who brought the judicial review against the group’s proscription, condemns the decision to spend taxpayers’ money ‘to pursue an unlawful ban’ observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
Police spent ‘astonishing’ £10m tackling Palestine Action
Huda Ammori, who brought the judicial review against the group’s proscription, condemns the decision to spend taxpayers’ money ‘to pursue an unlawful ban’
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Blasphemy laws in Pakistan which often result in a death sentence, are being weaponised to settle personal disputes. Sometimes against Muslims, but more often than not, against religious minorities in the country.
This image from the human rights charity Justice Upheld, describes the blasphemy laws in Pakistan which often really in a death sentence, are being weaponised to settle personal disputes. Sometimes against Muslims, but more often than not, against religious minorities in the country.
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SM @charmedneedle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
When society tells vulnerable people that it’s not their time for human rights quite yet, they have to wait just a little longer to be recognized as human beings… That is justice delayed, right? Everyone between now & when society finally gets around to dealing with it is being denied justice.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"If the numbers in Kent reflect the national picture, it could mean as many as 900 victims of domestic abuse are taking their own lives every year – up to 10 times as many as previously thought." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core
Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Strong piece from Ben Saul on the serious violations of right to protest in NSW (freedom of assembly & speech). #humanRights www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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NSW anti-protest laws were rushed through to keep the peace. They’ve failed
NSW is now one of the most draconian anti-protest jurisdictions in the democratic world, with anti-protest rules that violate international law.
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Jim Cox @bisasquatch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"An Irish man has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record... #Irish #Immigrant #HumanRights #ICEDetention #ICE
theguardian.com
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Dinosaur Convention out here with higher moral standards than the Cabinet.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 09/02/2026
Why is the human rights left still not really talking about Darfur? “More than 300 people have died over the last two months in a Sudanese prison run by the RSF” “Bodies of dead prisoners…left in their cells with remaining detainees…part of a broad range of severe human rights violations reported”
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Hundreds dead in RSF-run prison in Sudan's North Darfur
At least 9,000 civilians said to be in Shala prison, southwest of el-Fasher, where cholera has broken out
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Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The intellectual blind spot for many anti-imperialists is their inability to grasp that two realities can coexist at once. The horror revealed in the Epstein files does not absolve Russia of the plethora of human rights violations committed against children in Syria, Ukraine, and Mali. (1)
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The U.S. Journalist Assistance Network invites you to join us for a roundtable discussion on best practices for protecting data and devices for journalists in the U.S. 🗓️ 2/10 | 12-1 p.m. ET Register: cpj.org/USJANPaneldata
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Hundreds of Venezuelan political prisoners are being released.
Image from the human rights charity Justice Upheld. Showing that hundreds of Venezuelan political prisoners have been released, many of them from detention centres that have become infamous among human-rights advocates for their abuse of inmates.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Heartbreaking yet again. Another minor Hindu girl has become the victim of #forcedconversion in Pakistan. Sunita was abducted from Karachi and taken to Bhurchundi Dargah in Daharki, where she was forcibly converted to Islam.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The 6th of February is the annual International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
This image shows a Maasai woman wearing a breaded head dress that she made. In order to highlight the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM). Shared by Justice Upheld the global human rights charity which provides legal representation and advice, to people facing abuse of their human rights.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Today marks Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s 6th year behind bars. CPJ and more than 90 media groups around the world have called on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to “right the wrong” and reverse Cumpio’s unjust conviction. cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-... #FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio
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CPJ and 91 global media groups press Philippine leader to free Frenchie Mae Cumpio - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, February 6, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists and more than 90 media groups around the world have called on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to “right the wrong” and…
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This is what hypocrisy and political convenience looks like. #HumanRights #JusticeDenied
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Paula Gaviria Betancur @paulagaviriab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📢 CALL FOR INPUT My next report will examine the erosion of respect for international humanitarian law & the implications for internally displaced persons: 🔸 Recurring challenges 🔹 Protection gaps 🔸 Emerging trends You are invited to contribute! 📆 Deadline: 9 March 2026 🔗: bit.ly/idps_ihl
The image contains a summary in English of the call for inputs issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, to inform her thematic report on the challenges posed by the erosion of international humanitarian law for internally displaced persons. The image contains a summary in Spanish of the call for inputs issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, to inform her thematic report on the challenges posed by the erosion of international humanitarian law for internally displaced persons. The image contains a summary in French of the call for inputs issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, to inform her thematic report on the challenges posed by the erosion of international humanitarian law for internally displaced persons.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Defending people can be dangerous, and requires bravery:
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Vietnamese government issuing an arrest warrant U.S. based human rights defender Dr. Nguyen Dinh Thang.
Dr Thang & his human rights organisation have been labelled as terrorists for their vital human rights work in Vietnam.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Forensic evidence & human rights org’s reveal, beyond doubt, organ theft from Palestinians detained in the Israeli occupation’s prisons & torture camps. Many bodies have been returned from Israeli custody with signs of surgical cuts & chemical burns, missing organs, hearts, corneas, lungs & kidneys.
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Israel just 'broke' a world record for kidney donors - but where did all
the organs come from?
Forensic evidence and human rights organisations reveal, beyond
doubt, organ theft from Palestinians detained in Israel's prisons. Yet
this?
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
In a shocking regression of LGBT rights in Uganda…
Image from the human rights charity Justice Upheld, explaining that Uganda is debating imposing life sentences for anyone caught engaging in homosexual acts.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in August 2024, the Hindu minority in Bangladesh has faced a significant increase in violence.
Image from the human rights charity Justice Upheld, warning that Bangladesh's Hindu Minority is In Fear As Attacks Rise And A National Election
Nears.
Bangladesh has described India's criticism on attacking Bangladesh's Hindu as
"systematic attempts" to stoke anti-Bangladesh sentiments.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Following escalating threats to the safety of journalists nationwide, CPJ and the International Women’s Media Foundation announced the launch of the U.S. Journalist Rapid Response Fund. The fund will debut in Minnesota with an initial contribution of $25,000 from CPJ and the IWMF. cpj.org?p=559776
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New emergency fund supports US journalists at risk - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, February 5, 2026—Following escalating threats to the safety of journalists nationwide, two international press freedom organizations – the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Inte...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Almost 43,000 people have signed a petition calling for UK officials to end their prosecution of peaceful protestors. Police have made over 2700 arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000 for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action in the UK. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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End the prosecution of peaceful protestors in the UK
Police have made 2700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This cannot go unchallenged. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide...
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
#HumanRights
Slashing global aid, particularly by the US and European countries, will reverse decades of progress in fighting diseases, and lead to 22.6 million additional deaths in people of all age groups, including children under five years of age, by 2030, warned a new study published in The Lancet Global Health on Tuesday.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
How well do you know your human rights?!
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
How well do you know your human rights?!
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join us in defending people you may never meet, and help us defend human rights.
Lady wearing a T-shirt which says “it shouldn’t have to happen to you to matter to you.” For the human rights charity Justice Upheld.
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Hanna Liubakova @hannaliubakova.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#Belarus Prominent journalist, poet and political prisoner Andrei Aliaksandrau marks his 6th birthday behind bars. Outrageously unfair - he was sentenced to 14 years just for being a journalist. Free press and free speech are what Lukashenka truly fears.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
CPJ’s #2025PrisonCensus found China, Myanmar + Israel are the world’s top jailers of journalists in connection to their work. At least 330 journalists were behind bars globally on Dec. 1, 2025, reflecting growing authoritarianism and escalating numbers of armed conflicts worldwide. cpj.org?p=553128
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Justice Upheld is calling on Pakistani authorities to end judicial harassment of human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha in what has been described as a “bogus case” relating to “anti-state” tweets. #HumanRights
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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 13/01/2026
Sudan: Massive displacement after more than 1,000 days of war #Refugees
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Sudan: Massive displacement after more than 1,000 days of war
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Over 860 political prisoners remain behind bars in Venezuela, according to the pro-bono legal group Foro Penal.
Graphic warning that the human rights of Venezuelans need to be protected after President Trump authorised military action in the country last week.
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Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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