Maryam Alkhawaja
@MARYAMALKHAWAJA
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Award winning Bahraini/Danish Human Rights Defender; consultant, trainer and public speaker. 2013 Nobel Prize nominee. #FreeAlKhawaja @freealkhawaja
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Thread, thoughts on human rights advocacy:
It’s interesting to me that when human rights violations occur - people are always like “well we need to shed light on it!”.. and in so many cases it gets documented, talked about, shared; and yet not much changes
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You can stand in
#solidarity
with the ppl of
#Ukraine
and the ppl protesting in
#Russia
and against the Russian government while also knowing the infuriating and lethal double standards of the West.
Always stand with the oppressed.
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“Maybe you’re not used to women talking”
The gall, the audacity, the racism. You don’t need to know Dr.
@MustafaBarghoti
to know how messed up this is.
Not only are Palestinians being subjected to a genocide, they also have to put up with being dehumanized and insulted…
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This is how one person can make a difference, and how you can use your white privilege to do something good:
Swedish student's dramatic plane protest stops man's deportation 'to hell'
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Don’t mention me about
#Palestine
if you’re pro Assad or if you’re being anti-Semitic ..
you’re either with justice everywhere or not at all, it’s not a buffet where you can pick and choose..
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Protest in Sitra,
#Bahrain
in
#solidarity
with
#Palestine
تضامن شعب #البحرين مع #فلسطين وضد تطبيع النظام
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My father, a prisoner of conscience in
#Bahrain
for 3690 days and sentenced to life for being a human rights defender, told me he’s trying to follow what’s happening in
#Palestine
from his prison cell. He & mum taught us from when we were children that Palestine is our cause too
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#Saudi
Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for participating in protests when he was 17. His family weren’t informed - they found out that their son was executed by reading the news online..
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I remember meeting an expert on ethnic cleansing a couple of years back about the genocide against the
#Rohingya
in
#Myanmar
, and being told that they are extremely concerned the same will happen in
#India
in the years to come - I worry he was right
Hindu nationalists dancing with swords outside mosques, singing genocidal songs, publicly asking for ethnic cleansing are dealt with cops turned mute spectators. Protests over Prophet Muhammad remarks dealt with bullets and murder. Listen in
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I see a lot of tweeps in
#Bahrain
writing they’re ashamed to be Bahraini today. I’ll never be ashamed to be Bahraini, I’m proud of the people who fight injustice locally and have always stood with justice
#Palestine
. Bahrain is it’s people, the regimes only represent themselves
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Today marks one month since the beginning of the largest mass
#hungerstrike
by political prisoners in
#Bahrain
, - and I am announcing that I will be traveling there next week to try and save my imprisoned father's life.
#FreeAlKhawaja
#DKPol
#Solidarity
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My father just called, he stood in the prison yard today and chanted slogans against the Israeli occupation and in solidarity with freedom for
#Palestine
. He said this may be symbolic but it’s the least he could do for the Palestinian cause, especially bcz of the visit
#Bahrain
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كل التضامن مع شعب #السودان المنتفض ضد الانقلاب العسكري
#Solidarity
with the people of
#Sudan
revolting against the military coup
#EyesOnSudan
#SudanCoup
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Protests happened in different areas in
#Bahrain
, this is from the one in Manama
#Palestine
عاجل
السلطات البحرينية تحاصر المتظاهرين في المنامة المنددين بفتح سفارة لكيان الاحتلال الاسرائيلي
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How? How can it be even worse? The horrors of the past weeks wasn’t the worst? They’re determined to prove that they can outdo themselves in their atrocities? How much more can people take?
قطاع غزة يشهد الآن القصف الأعنف برًا وبحرًا وجوًا منذ بداية الحرب، تزمنًا مع انقطاع الاتصالات بالكامل عن معظم مناطق القطاع.
The Gaza Strip is now witnessing the heaviest bombardment on land, sea and air since the beginning of the war, coinciding with a complete cut off of
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"from the airport now, Maryam denied boarding a flight to Bahrain by British Airways on behalf of Bahraini regime"
@British_Airways
#FreeAlKhawaja
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اتصل والدي للتو وأخبرنا أنه وقف في وسط الساحة الخارجية في سجن جو وهتف شعارات منددة بالاستعمار الصهويني وشعارات متضامنة مع الشعب الفلسطيني قال بأنه يعرف أن هذا فعل رمزي ولكنه أقل الواجب في حق القضية الفلسطينية خصوصا مع الزيارة الصهيونية للبحرين
#فلسطين #البحرين
#Bahrain
#Palestine
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We're shutting down the weapons company Terma in
#Denmark
near
#Copenhagen
right now demanding they stop all deals supporting genocide in
#Palestine
. Join us
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لن انسى ابدا التضامن المتبادل بين أبي المعتقل ومعتقلين فلسطينيين عندما كان مضرب عن الطعام.
بداية رسالتهم لأبي كانت:
«حريتك هي من حريتنا وحريتنا هي من حريتك»
وأردد هذه الكلمات للشعب الفلسطيني اليوم: حريتكم هي من حريتنا، وحريتنا هي من حريتكم
#بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع #البحرين #فلسطين
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The progressive, social democracy of
#Denmark
has decided it can tell women what they can and cannot wear - reminds me of some other countries, guess where?
#RightToChoice
Denmark bans niqab and burqa, becoming the fifth European country to pass such a law. Headscarves, Sikh turbans and Jewish skull caps are not banned. Anyone forcing a person to wear garments covering the face using violence or threats can be fined or face two years in prison.
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This is amazing. Danish Muslims have an outdoors iftar planned at city hall today, and Paludan, who has called for the ethnic cleansing of Muslims, said he would go there and burn the Quran - so a group of volunteers showed up to make a protection ring around the Muslims
#DKPol
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Before
@TomasZdechovsky
dares open his mouth & speak at my father's debate, he must pre-empt it with acknowledgement of his relationship and paid trips to
#Bahrain
with the Bahraini gov -so it's clear where his loyalties lie (details in video)
#FreeAlkhawaja
#EU
#DKPol
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Let me fix that title for you:
#Bahrain
executes three torture survivors over alleged 2014 police killing after unfair trial
Bahrain executes three Shia men over 2014 police killing
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They call it a peace deal, peace for whom? Not the Palestinians living under occupation, not the Bahraini’s living under oppression.. the only supposed peace is between two parties who weren’t at war to begin with and who should both be on trial..
#بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع
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It’s literally insane that
#Iran
is on the UN Commission on the Status of Women to begin with, let alone be allowed to stay on now. Countries should do the right thing and vote them off, at the very least in respect for the memory of
#MahsaAmini
and so many others killed
Narges Mohammadi, one of Iran’s bravest human rights defenders, just posted the names of women’s rights activists who want the Islamic Republic off the CSW. These are women who have been jailed for seeking the freedoms the Islamic Republic is denying them.
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Follow these ppl on
#Palestine
:
@m7mdkurd
@MariamBarghouti
@Omar_Gaza
@LinahAlsaafin
@malsaafin
@marwasf
@4noura
@MahaAbdallah
@theIMEU
And I’m sure I’ve missed many, feel free to add in tweets below!
And you can follow all of them, you don’t have to pick and choose :)
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It takes a special kind of perseverance to face the amount of attacks and defamation that
@RanaAyyub
does and to continue going strong.
#Solidarity
,
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#India
A full page in the Washington Post today about the witch-hunt against me. Cannot thank my colleagues and publication for having my back at such a crucial time for me. I promise to keep fighting the truth
@elopezgross
@washingtonpost
@wppressfreedom
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Mustafa was placed in solitary confinement and beaten so badly that he lost consciousness several times. To make the
#torture
stop, he confessed to the charges against him. He recanted the confession in court and said he was tortured.
He was executed anyway bcz there’s no justice
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Some personal news: I'm happy to announce that I've joined Physicians for Human Rights
@P4HR
as their Europe Director and interim Advocacy Director.
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The people of
#Bahrain
are not free, nor do they have any say in what the regime does or decides, locally or internationally.
The fight for justice and freedom continues.
صمود
#فلسطين #بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع
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Three years ago today
@NABEELRAJAB
was calling for my release; today I call for his. This is how it is in
#Bahrain
#FreeNabeel
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Hi
@Twitter
- why has the account dedicated to my father’s release been locked for “violating twitter rules”? It doesn’t even say what rule was broken! This is ridiculous
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Also want to know which technology did
#Saudi
use to break into Mustafa’s phone? Which company/country sold it to them?
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Disgusting that
@davidguetta
is not only performing in
#Saudi
, but playing songs praising the king - while leading human rights defenders are in prison, and we have reports that the women human rights defenders have been subjected to
#torture
.
#Shame
WATCH: In first,
#DavidGuetta
amazes
#Saudi
audience at
#FormulaE
concert by remixing some of the kingdom’s most famous songs, including a salute to Saudi King Salman, which received an excited reaction and mass singalong from concertgoers.
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Urgent thread:
We’re very worried about my father who called this morning and said he won’t be allowed to make anymore calls, and was chanting Free
#Bahrain
, Free
#Palestine
, and down with israels collaborators - they kept cutting the call and he kept trying to call back.
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Like I said, not a coincidence that the news of the executions came one day after the
#US
announced they were bringing back federal executions, regime’s statement starts with:
“Just as capital punishment is permitted in the United States”...
#Bahrain
Statement from the Embassy of the Kingdom of
#Bahrain
on the cases of Mr. Ali Al Arab and Mr. Ahmed Al Malali
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
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موضوع عاجل:
نحن قلقون جدًا بشأن والدي الذي اتصل للتو وقال إنه لن يُسمح له بإجراء مكالمات بعد الآن ، وكان يردد #البحرين حرة #فلسطين حرة، ويسقط عملاء إسرائيل - لقد استمروا في قطع المكالمة وهو يحاول الاتصال مرة أخرى. هذا تسجيل لإحدى المكالمات التي تم قطعها
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Marzieh Hashemi is a black Muslim journalist, who has been arrested by the FBI as a “material witness”- during which she was forced to take off her headscarf, take a pic without it, and not provided with food she can eat as a Muslim. No charges have been brought against her
#US
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Today marks 11 years since my father and other human rights and political leaders were sentenced to life in prison in
#Bahrain
. This picture is from the trial after they had tortured him, fractured his jaw and held him incommunicado. You can still see his strength
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هنا فلسطين 🇵🇸
#بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع
#خليجيون_ضد_التطبيع
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Today marks 12 years since my father was brutally arrested in front of my family, his face fractured in 4 places; 12 years since he was dragged away leaving a bloody trail after saying “I can’t breathe” as he was beaten unconscious.
#FreeAlKhawaja
#Bahrain
#dkpol
#dkmedier
.
@MARYAMALKHAWAJA
reflects on cherished memories with her father, Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja, on the solemn anniversary of his unjust arrest.
#FreeAlKhawaja
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Some of you may have noticed that I have been somewhat absent in the past couple of weeks.. I explain why here and hope you will join me in my action
#FreeAlKhawaja
#FreePalestine
#DKPol
#cancer
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My father was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance again this morning due to heart palpitations. 13 years in prison serving a life sentence for being a human rights defender.
Enough is enough,
#FreeAlKhawaja
#dkpol
#Denmark
#Bahrain
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There are no words. Thoughts and prayers for their families
#IranPlaneCrash
Heartbreaking photo from the Ukrainian plane crash in Iran. All 176 people on board killed.
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As I prepare to go to
#Bahrain
, I am yet again calling on the Danish government to do more to save my father’s life
#FreeAlKhawaja
#DKPol
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من #الدنمارك إلى #البحرين، هنا #السودان
#العصيان_المدني_الشامل
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One of the most important lessons my father taught me was: “you either stand for justice everywhere, or not at all”.
In our polarized world that’s not an easy value to follow, but we must always strive to live up to it as human rights defenders, otherwise, what are we doing?
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I was 13, a year older than Mohammed AlDurra, when I watched him get shot on tv. I remember it like it was yesterday, and how I sobbed watching the injustice of what was happening. 18 years later, and justice has yet to be served. Rest in power Mohammed AlDurra
#Palestine
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So
#Erdogan
cracked down on ppl when they took to the streets, and is now calling on ppl to take to the streets? .....
#JustSayin
#Turkey
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Let me reiterate, they passed a special law to apply only to
#Ukraine
instead of changing the current messed up laws (which include sending refugees from
#Syria
and
#Afghanistan
back) just to make sure no brown or black person benefits from it.
This is what
#racism
looks like
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Update: My father ended his hunger strike, we continue our efforts to get him released
#FreeAlKhawaja
#Bahrain
#DKPol
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Happy birthday baba. Next year you'll turn 60 and will have been in prison for a decade. We all miss you so much. This past period so many people have been writing about how difficult it's been too self isolate and stay within their homes.
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Only sad thing about Rumsfeld dying is that he wasn’t held accountable for his crimes.. there’s still time for Bush tho and others
#DonaldRumsfeld
#US
#Iraq
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Khalifa Salman Alkhalifa died today, he was the worlds longest unelected Prime Minister, having been for 50 years and would have continued being PM for as long as he’s alive. So who was he?
#Bahrain
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A 28 year old black man was murdered in
#Denmark
by two white brothers. They stabbed him, beat him, called him the N word, put a knee on his neck. The older brother had posted “whyte lives matter” on FB, and shared pictures of right wing extremist Paludan
#DKPol
#BlackLivesMatter
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Abdulhadi Alkhawaja collapsed last night due to
#HungerStrike
n contd detention, was given IV w/out his consent, stable now
#bahrain
#FEB14
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My father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, known internationally for his work as a human rights defender, has now spent over 7 years in a
#Bahrain
prison because he practiced his right to
#FreeSpeech
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The salt on the wound is having to be humiliated and go through the undignified process of getting asylum in the West after the West helped create the conditions that made you a
#refugee
to begin with; to then live as second/third class dealing with discrimination and racism
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In
#Bahrain
one of the things I learned in school was that when you love someone, you stay up til midnight to wish them happy birthday if their birthday was tomorrow. It just turned midnight in Bahrain, so Happy 60th Birthday baba. I love you
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Zainab Alkhawaja
@angryarabiya
just got arrested while attempting to reach pearl square
#bahrain
#Arabspring
#FEB14
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I was 23 years old when my father was violently arrested, beaten unconscious in front of my family and dragged away to be horrifically tortured and held incommunicado in solitary confinement
I'm 35 now still fighting for his and
#Bahrain
's freedom
#FreeAlKhawaja
#DKPol
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Hunger striker’s daughter: Formula 1 in
#Bahrain
is salt in our wounds
http://t.co/kf5USv1i
#f1
#feb14
#fia
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#Urgent
: Mosa Abdali is now on top of
#Bahrain
Embassy in
#London
to protest executions: "I am risking my life demanding that
@borisjohnson
call the King to stop execution of
#torture
victims Ali AlArab and Ahmed AlMalali. I will throw myself off the rooftop if they are executed"
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My father has been in prison for 3652 days in
#Bahrain
. He’s a human rights defender sentenced to life and tortured severely for demanding rights, democracy and freedom.
#UnitedStates
#US
CDA Maggie Nardi met today with HRH CP & PM
#Salman_bin_Hamad
to reaffirm the strong & enduring strategic partnership & friendly ties between the
#UnitedStates
& the
#KingdomofBahrain
.
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I mention that she is black and Muslim because while all Muslims are targeted with
#Islamophobia
, black Muslims are subjected to the worst of it, because it isn’t just religious targeting, but racial as well. She should be released immediately
#FreeMarziehHashemi
#US
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I’ll never forget the exchange of
#solidarity
between my imprisoned father and Palestinian prisoners while on
#hungerstrike
, the letter read:
“Your freedom is tied to our freedom and our freedom is tied to yours”
#بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع
#Bahrain
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“To be clear: A lot of the responsibility for the death and suffering in Iran has to lie with the Iranian government...
Nevertheless,
#US
sanctions on
#Iran
, which have had a devastating impact on the economy, have made things much worse.” -
@mehdirhasan
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Outside the Embassy of
#Bahrain
in London - looks like they don’t want to talk to us.
#FreeAlKhawaja
#DKPol
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On being denied travel to
#Bahrain
, and on how our fight to save my father' life continues.
Cc
@OliveMoore
@FrontLineHRD
@AgnesCallamard
@amnesty
@timothywhyte
@ActionAidDK
and
@ettrick49
#FreeAlKhawaja
#DKPol
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Protests continue for 8th day in a row, people chanting “from Ramallah to
#Bahrain
, one people not two”
#Palestine
#بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع
ايام الغضب الشعبي مستمرة ولليوم الثامن المسيرات لا تتوقف و العنوان #لا_للتطبيع اليوم السبت 19/9/2020 خرجت مسيرة صارخة من قرية شهركان ترفض الاعتراف بالكيان المحتل وتجدد العهد من رام الله للبحرين شعب واحد لا شعبين
#بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع #خليجيون_ضد_التطبيع
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Hello
@jack
. Why has one of
#Bahrain
's leading and imprisoned HRDs
@nabeelrajab
's
@Twitter
account been suspended?
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Typical.. First they complained not enuff Muslims in
#Denmark
vote - saying they weren’t “integrating” and such.. Now that many took part in the last elections, coverage in the media is “Muslim mobilization of voters creates concern of increased polarization”
#smh
#DKPol
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't - suk! Vi burde hylde hver enkelt borger, der har taget del i demokratiet og afgivet deres stemme. Tak til alle, der har været med til at få stemmeprocenten til at stige blandt minoritetsetniske borgere - I er for seje!!!
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From
#Myanmar
to the
#Philippines
, to
#Bahrain
,
#Palestine
and
#Syria
, to
#Columbia
and
#Mexico
and all around the world; our struggles are all connected. Oppressors and dictators learn from each other and support each other, and best thing they do is divide and conquer
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Opinion: As
#Bahrain
’s crown prince visits D.C., the country’s prisoners need Biden’s help
#US
#FreeAlKhawaja
#DKPol
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Day 16 of my father's
#hungerstrike
in
#Bahrain
, alongside the mass hunger strike which includes more than 700 political prisoners. Watch this update and make sure you check out the
@wsj
article that came out today
#FreeAlKhawaja
#DKPol
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