#Detainees

The Secret Barrister

BarristerSecret

The Home Office has responded to my earlier tweet by claiming that I have said something “completely untrue”.I take defamatory attacks on my character seriously.So let’s break down what has

UN Watch

UNWatch

The Top 10 Human Rights Abusers of 2020 10: RussiaPoisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, held 362 political prisoners, tortured detainees, persecuted 300 Jehovah’s Witnesses, bombed schools, hospitals and markets in

Rewire News Group

RewireNewsGroup

Them: Why aren’t Black/brown folks getting vaccinated as quickly as white people?Us: Uhhh...medical racism?THREAD: You’ve probably heard that a new COVID-19 vaccine has been released for the public health care

Matt Katz

mattkatz00

Dems in NJ feuding over whether 3 Dem counties should continue to jail immigrants for ICE thru big $ contracts. THREAD: Last month Dem Hudson County exec @TomDeGise & freeholders

*CLANG CLANG* I LIKE TO HAVE EVIL VƎX

vexwerewolf

The way liberals and conservatives act about cops makes more sense when you realise that both groups look upon criminals as an existential class rather than a label assigned to

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

Brace yourself for weirdness from the office responsible for fighting Hatch Act violations. I won't attribute a cause, I'll just describe it. I leave it to you to interpret what's

Bad China Takes

BadChinaTake

1/ BBC's publication of allegations of rape and torture in Xinjiang reeducation camps have predictably triggered angry responses from denialists, many drawing parallels to the Nayirah affair. This argument relies

Ruben Pater 🔻

unlisted_roots

State institutions that engage in terror, torture and assassination should be tried for war crimes and abolished.Instead of platforming I am going to promote work that scrutinizes/reveals these practices, like

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gabydvj

taking a lil break from finals (i’m in grad school now remember) to do a thread of my favorite stories from this year. first up, obviously, is my @verge feature

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kategmarie

It bothers me seeing people casually praise China as if they aren’t major violators of human rights. Don’t believe me? A quick google search will help. I’ll start it for

Aaron Walker

sturgidson

In light of @realdonaldtrump's extremely stupid mandate on architectural taste, let's review some hilights of Trump's more architecturally profound moments as a way to remind ourselves what it means to

Tim Soret

timsoret

13 tons.... The Uyghur situation is, let's call it, a fucking holocaust, and nobody gives a shit somehow.After all, what's a few millions victims in a country of 1.4 billion

Holly Cooper #LiyahIsFree

abogadatejana

Lawyer burnout: A ThreadIn 1999, I received a fellowship to work at the Florence Project to develop their first children’s detention project. I moved from Oakland, CA to Florence, AZ

Olaudah Equiano®

RealOlaudah

1995 ‘coup’: How Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Gwadabe were maltreated — Ex-EFCC chairman.A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri has given a fresh insight into

Katherine Miller

katherinemiller

Friends, the time has come for the annual thread of links. Around the holidays, I like to share stuff from the year (culture, politics, news, whatever) that I found compelling

It's Going Down

IGD_News

In 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring, thousands of union members occupied the Wisconsin state capitol - shutting down the legislature in an effort to stop anti-union legislation. Months later,

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