Sara Afshar
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Filmmaker & journalist. Director of BAFTA nominated ‘Syria's Disappeared’. Pls watch:
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I'm currently watching
#C4Dispatches
#KillZoneInsideGaza
. I'm watching it bit by bit & having breaks. I can't describe what I'm seeing, it's beyond words, & I've been following the
#Gaza
conflict closely. I beg everyone to watch it. The very least we can do is to bear witness.
“All I see is destruction.”
@Hind_Gaza
is a Palestinian journalist reporting from Gaza. Over 200 days, Hind and other Palestinian journalists filmed Israel’s military assault on the Gaza strip for a
@C4Dispatches
special - made by
@Basement_Films
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I haven’t seen footage like this in previous Iran protests. But I wish the world, the international community, all women, anyone who says they’re progressive, everyone, would show Iranians solidarity. We need it more than ever. Please. This struggle matters.
#IranProtests2022
Iranians are so frustrated, their anger is exploding in the streets. The international community needs to support them in determining their own future.
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I'm so sick of this crap. The history of Iran is far more complex than a photo of a woman 'showing her legs'. (I'm Iranian, I lived there until late '78, I went back often after the war, once staying for almost a yr, I wrote MSc dissertation on causes of the revolution & outcome)
1/ With Iran in the news, I'm going to do a brief educational thread on their history since the 1979 "Revolution" where they moved from a flawed monarchy with democratic principles to a theocracy under Ayatollah Khomeini.
Here's a picture of life in Iran before the revolution.
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It's 4 yrs today - 4 years - since our friend Mazen Alhummada was detained on returning to
#Syria
& disappeared by the Assad regime. We wish for his release & the release of thousands others every day. Syria is not a safe country. Free the detainees.
#FreeMazen
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Tonight is Shabeh Yalda (Yalda Night) an ancient Persian festival celebrated by Iranians & Afghans. We celebrate the triumph of light over darkness on the longest night of the year by staying up to welcome the sun. May the light come this year. Happy Yalda to all around the world
Flavour of
#Yalda
Happy🍉Yalda /
#WinterSolstice
Photo credit: IGotItFromMyMaman
Yalda Night:
#IranianWomen
#IranianWIN
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I’m travelling on an ICE train right now from Paris to Saarbrucken & I have just been abused, humiliated & maltreated by the customs officer on board. I’m shocked & still shaking & want to complain. I was having a nice time before then, I’m on holiday with my aunt.
Deutsche Bahn's ICE trains are its crowning glory. They can run at speeds of up to 300 km/h and up to 230 km/h on upgraded lines. Best of all, they run on 100% renewable energy sourced from wind, solar and hydro. Where did you last travel on an ICE train?
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It’s one year since Mazen was disappeared. We think about him every day. We wish for his release. Free Mazen Alhummada. Free all the detainees.
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Big news: French judges have issued arrest warrant for
#Assad
for
#ChemicalWeapons
attack in
#Ghouta
#Syria
in Aug 2013. 1st time sitting head of state has been subject of arrest warrant in another country for war crimes & crimes against humanity. Historic
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The youngest, Layan, was only 2 yrs old when she was abducted by the Assad regime in 2013. She & her whole family have been disappeared for more than a decade. And yet Arab countries are normalising relations with Assad. Do they ask him what he’s done with these children?
#Syria
Do you see this picture?
I will tell you their story briefly.
This is a Syrian family that was arrested by the Assad regime, supported by Russia and Iran, more than 10 years ago.
Even today their fate is unknown. Can you imagine the atrocities that Syrians are being subjected
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@thebatman2000
One of my many tweets over the years about Iran, where I no longer go to coz of my work as a journalist. My feed is about Gaza at the moment because children are being starved there - a crisis I think more urgent than any other. It amazes me how much ppl assume from one tweet.
I haven’t seen footage like this in previous Iran protests. But I wish the world, the international community, all women, anyone who says they’re progressive, everyone, would show Iranians solidarity. We need it more than ever. Please. This struggle matters.
#IranProtests2022
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It's 10 years today - a whole decade - since Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hamada, Samira Khalil & Nazem Hamadi, were kidnapped in Douma,
#Syria
by jihadists for documenting atrocities. They are disappeared to this day. 10 years of agony for their families & friends. Free the
#Douma4
Human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh fought passionately for democracy and justice in Syria. She was abducted in 2013 — and her fate remains a mystery until this day.
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It’s difficult to comprehend but it’s now 2 years today since Mazen was disappeared. We miss him, we think about him, we just want him back. Free Mazen Alhummada. Free all the detainees.
#Syria
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.
@Number10gov
I'm one of many British citizens who's now banned from travelling to the US because of ethnicity. Why are u not supporting us?
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I really urge you to watch this piece. An Israeli soldier bravely speaking out about the conduct of the IDF in
#Gaza
. Things he witnessed with his own eyes. Vital testimony. Another incredibly important piece of journalism by
@SecKermani
& the team at
#C4News
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Yesterday I was with these amazing women, the families of the detainees disappeared in
#Syria
by Assad in front of the UAE Embassy to call for the cancellation of Assad's invitation to attend
#COP28
and to stop normalization with him.
@FamiliesSyria
@AminaKhoulani
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I support the campus protests but I've seen 2 instances on here of ppl with Hezbollah's flag. I'm not going to share coz I don't want to see that flag on my timeline. If you believe in human rights, int law & want to work towards peace, you don't promote a terrorist organisation.
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It’s 3 years today that our friend, Mazen Alhummada, was arrested by the Syrian regime & forcibly disappeared. We wish for his release every day, along with the tens of thousands of people who have been disappeared, some for over a decade.
#FreeMazen
Free the detainees.
#Syria
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For those saying why no
#ICC
arrest warrant for Assad? Russia & China vetoed UNSC resolution to refer
#Syria
to ICC. But Syrian human rights activists have done amazing work filing war crimes cases in European courts, & last yr French judges issued an arrest warrant for Assad 1/
Big news: French judges have issued arrest warrant for
#Assad
for
#ChemicalWeapons
attack in
#Ghouta
#Syria
in Aug 2013. 1st time sitting head of state has been subject of arrest warrant in another country for war crimes & crimes against humanity. Historic
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This post hit me. Hamza Al-Khateeb, forever a 13 year old boy. How many futures indeed were stolen by Assad? Where are Rania Al-Abassi & her 6 children, the youngest, Layan, was just 2 years old in 2013 when the whole family was arrested & disappeared by the Assad regime.
#Syria
Never forget little Hamza and the thousands of Syrian children like him whose future was stolen from them by the Assad regime.
Hamza would have turned 26 this October.
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Incredible piece by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Her pride in the younger generation of Iranians taking on the struggle for us all moved me to tears, especially these words: “Stop a generation of women from running, & they give birth to girls with wings”.
#IranProtests
#Mahsa_Amini
From that breathtaking piece by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in tomorrow’s Sunday Times, on Iran’s headscarf revolt and the women she met in prison.
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@MeirionTweets
@BBCNewsnight
So sad to read this. Dave was such a lovely, kind man. It was Dave who came to my flat & brought me flowers from the Newsnight team when I had a personal tragedy. It was so comforting to see his face. He was always so thoughtful and had a lot of empathy.
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Today, the
#InternationalDayoftheDisappeared
I’m thinking of Razan Zaitouneh, her husband & her colleagues, the
#Douma4
, as well as the over 100,000 men, women & children disappeared in
#Syria
, mainly by the Assad regime, including my friend Mazen Alhummada. Free the detainees.
Where is Razan Zaitouneh? Where are Wael Hamada, Samira Khalil & Nazem Hamadi? Kidnapped on this day 8 yrs ago from their VDC offices in Douma where they documented atrocities in
#Syria
. The suspects: Jaish al Islam. 8 agonising yrs for their families & friends. Free the Douma 4.
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Dear
@nytimes
Wordle was fun before you took it over. Now it’s silly - some of the word choices are silly, eg
#Wordle242
. Maybe I’m being harsh but you’re ruining it. It’s not as enjoyable. Please can it go back to the way it was? Btw I solved it in 5 but it wasn’t satisfying.
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Huge news: former senior intelligence official in
#Assad
regime, Anwar R, has been arrested in Germany accused of torturing detainees in
#Syrian
detention. This is first arrest of its kind made possible by the brave testimony of torture survivors & incredible work of
@ECCHRBerlin
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'Syria's Disappeared' won Investigation of the Year tonight at the
#britishjournalismawards
. Thanks to all who worked on the film, to
@C4Dispatches
, but mostly thanks to the brave Syrian torture survivors & families who spoke to us - please listen to them &
#savetherest
#BJA2017
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23,022 children have been killed by the Syrian regime to date since protests first began in March 2011 in Syria. New figures from
@snhr
On World Children’s Day, the shocking new numbers below should horrify us all into action & should teach us that impunity is a global pandemic that cuts across international boundaries. Today, it is more urgent than ever to develop a global strategy (including appointing a UN
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I have a British passport & my aunt lives in Paris & is elderly. We were singled out, questioned, deep bag search including my aunt’s medication & then body search without our consent. I’ve travelled all our Europe on trains, including ICE. Never happened to me. I want answers.
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So pleased that Mansour Omari who bravely smuggled out the names of fellow detainees, written in their own blood on pieces of cloth, & told his story in 'Syria's Disappeared,' has loaned the cloths to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for a special exhibition from 5 Dec, pls visit
New
#USHMM
special exhibition "Syria: Please Don't Forget Us" press unveiling. Will open to the public on 12/5
#SaveSyria
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Good news. I wish this would happen in Syria, Egypt & elsewhere. Free all political prisoners.
BIG NEWS in Bahrain. For the first time since the 2011 Arab spring uprising, a royal pardon was issued yesterday for over 1000 political prisoners released ALL IN ONE GO. It’s also just over 15 yrs since the Saudi ‘incursion’ in March 2011 which marked start of mass incarceration
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I’ve never seen a film as beautifully personal & intimate as
#ForSama
, but also universal & of historic importance.
@waadalkateab
filmed 5 yrs of her life in
#Syria
. Thankfully she got out alive & made this incredible film with
@watts_edward
. Pls see it & ask your politicians to.
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How can anyone have faith in UNICEF or any UN body when you can’t bring yourself to say that it was the horrific bombing campaigns - war crimes - by the Assad regime & Russia that destroyed Aleppo?
#Syria
In
#Aleppo
#Syria
, the impact of the earthquake was huge as many buildings were already damaged by the long years of crisis. Visiting one day ago with our
@unicefchief
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Amazing to see cloths with
#detainees
' names that Mansour Omari smuggled out of
#Syrian
detention now
@HolocaustMuseum
in DC, opens 5 Dec.
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Never thought I’d see protests like this in Dezful. Conservative town, where my family originally came from before moving to Tehran. It’s a world away from Tehran. Just shows how widespread
#IranProtests
are that one of biggest protests last night was in Dezful.
#IranRevoIution
Saturday night saw anti-regime protests in dozens of cities across Iran.
One of the biggest was in Dezful, Khuzestan province. Here, protesters run for safety as security forces fire at a peaceful crowd marching in the street.
#مهسا_امینی
#MahsaAmini
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This is huge. Congratulations to all the Syrian human rights activists, the torture survivors & the families of the disappeared who fought so hard for this & made it happen.
#UnitedNations
#Syria
Just Now! Huge victory for victims, survivors, & their families of Syria.
Yes: 83, No: 11, Abstention: 62.
Historic & promising for millions of Syrians. UNGA adopts resolution A/77/L.79 to establish an Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria. The resolution requests
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It upsets me that some ppl are using my post about Syria to try to minimise the killing of children by Israeli forces. Everyone should be able to agree that the killing of children is wrong in all circumstances anywhere. Never justified. Children are civilians & must be protected
23,022 children have been killed by the Syrian regime to date since protests first began in March 2011 in Syria. New figures from
@snhr
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Sama says: “watch
#ForSama
!” ❤️You can watch this incredible multi-award-winning & now
#BAFTA
award-winning film on All4, PBS & YouTube. Huge congrats to Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts, the
@forsamafilm
team & everyone in the film, especially Sama!
#BAFTA2020
#BAFTAAwards
#BAFTAs
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Important, vital reporting by
@RohitKachrooITV
for
@itvnews
on
#Assad
’s torture machine which involves military hospitals, in this case Tishreen. Hospital 601 is another: the site where thousands of dead, tortured & numbered detainees were photographed by a Syrian regime defector
How a Damascus hospital became a secret “slaughterhouse” for anti-Assad Syrians. Doctors and nurses use medical equipment to taunt, torture and kill during check-ups. Images of a nearby mass grave taken two days ago show an open pit ready to take bodies.
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Our film
#SyriasDisappeared
pick of the day in Guardian, Times & Telegraph, Thurs 23 March 10pm
@Channel4
@NicolaCutcher
@Callum_Macrae
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This is disgusting by
@jeremycorbyn
. Absolutely disgusting. It’s been bad enough watching him ignore the plight of
#Syrians
for the last 9 yrs, but to spread this nonsense..shameful. He talks about wanting peace & human rights. He has no idea what they mean. I wish he’d be quiet
“We were asked to join in alongside Al-Nusra”
Corbyn (unwittingly?) spreading racist conspiracy theories about Syrians. Shameful.
There are huge criticisms of UK / US-led coalition ops in Syria (see our reports) but this is some sub-Press TV foolishness
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What Denmark is doing is shameful & they should stop immediately. There are many cases of Syrians who’ve returned to regime areas being arrested & disappeared, so how the Danish government can claim it’s safe, I don’t know.
#Syria
Denmark claims areas like Damascus or regime-held territories in Syria are safe and therefore Syrians in Denmark who come from these areas have to go back. Syrians have been reporting for months about similar decisions from Danish authorities.
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I don’t usually share this stuff publicly. But as a woman who’s worked in TV now for over 2 decades, it’s just tiring. But I’m heartened & grateful to see male colleagues acknowledging the sexism that exists in our industry. 3/3
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Alistair Burt has resigned. Huge respect to him for voting for the
#Letwinamendment
, but he was also a Minister who met & listened to
#Syrian
civil society activists, torture survivors & families of the disappeared, & so I’m sad he had to resign.
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Pls share this. It explains what’s happening in
#Iran
& contains important footage of the
#IranProtests
& the brutal response by the regime. The internet has been restricted in Iran. Pls help get the message of brave Iranians out.
#BeTheirVoice
#MahsaAmini
#IranProtests2022
Protests in Iran have spread to 80 cities and left at least 30 people dead, including a 16-year-old boy.
@KianSharifi
looks at how the authorities are responding
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I wonder
@WHO
if you asked Assad’s Health Minister about Hospital 601, walking distance from Assad’s palace, where the corpses of thousands of protesters, including children, tortured & killed in regime detention, were photographed? Survivors call that hospital a slaughterhouse.
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The customs officer was a French woman. Her colleague (male) told her to stop but she wouldn’t. She is on the Paris to Saarbrucken (final destination Frankfurt) ICE train 9553, departed Paris 13:10.
@AClaireLegendre
@francediplo_EN
I’m travelling on an ICE train right now from Paris to Saarbrucken & I have just been abused, humiliated & maltreated by the customs officer on board. I’m shocked & still shaking & want to complain. I was having a nice time before then, I’m on holiday with my aunt.
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@hugorifkind
I like your work & respect you, but your characterisation of the Libya intervention is not correct. Here’s an article from 2020 about what’s happened in Libya & why it’s in the situation it’s in:
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I can't believe it's been one year. Free Elizabeth Tsurkov.
It’s been a year since our friend
@Elizrael
was kidnapped in Iraq while doing her phd research for
#Princeton
. Elizabeth is an amazing empathetic human and one of the best researchers I’ve met. That feeling of helplessness we her friends have is just painful on so many levels.
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This is a case of historic importance happening in Paris, bringing justice to the families of
#Syria
's disappeared. 3 Syrian intelligence officials will be tried for crimes against humanity. Huge respect to the Dabbagh family,
@fidh_en
,
@SyrianCenter
& all who made this happen.
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The TV exec told me I wouldn’t know how to structure my 1hr doc. He then named a white male director who he cited as an eg of someone who’d do a great job. I laughed it off & went to a rival broadcaster who commissioned our film. It won 2 awards & was nominated for a BAFTA. 2/3
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This is a brilliant documentary. Needed now, more than ever. I hope everyone watches it. Shocking, deeply moving, but also funny, dare I say it, in the hands of
@Baddiel
. I’ve just finished watching it & it’s difficult to find the words. Please watch it.
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Really worth listening to this. Goes into the history of the British tanks deal with Iran - the scale of the corruption by both the Shah & a British operative is eye watering. Looking forward to the rest of the series every day this week 13:45
#FreeNazanin
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Unbelievable. Shameful. Ireland absolutely doing the right thing, UK is not. So UK complains. For goodness’ sake, Poland has welcomed over 1 million Ukrainians over its border. UK has taken 50 or so. What a terrible country we’ve become.
#RefugeesWelcome
#StandWithUkraine
Exc: Ministers have raised concerns about Ireland’s open-door policy to Ukrainian refugees, arguing it creates UK security risk.
Dublin joined EU-wide scheme welcoming refugees for 3 years, via which Ukrainians can travel to UK (Common Travel Area) without biometric checks
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@MansourOmari
I’m shaking and crying. This was meant to be a fun trip for my aunt. First time we’re seeing my cousins for years. I don’t think I will ever travel on ICE again
@DB_Presse
. I want to know why we were treated like this.
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@hugorifkind
Gaddafi was overtly threatening a horrific massacre. It was a limited intervention to stop that massacre happening. Libyans overthrew Gaddafi. We didn’t ‘bomb the country to pieces’. It wasn’t just UK/US. A UNSC resolution was passed before action was taken. V different to Iraq.
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Where is Razan Zaitouneh? Where are Wael Hamada, Samira Khalil & Nazem Hamadi? Kidnapped on this day 8 yrs ago from their VDC offices in Douma where they documented atrocities in
#Syria
. The suspects: Jaish al Islam. 8 agonising yrs for their families & friends. Free the Douma 4.
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Even though the choices don't inspire me
#IVoted
coz I'm grateful every day to be living in a democracy as opposed to where I came from Iran
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This piece is deeply upsetting & horrifying but must be watched by everyone please. We must stop this now! Why does this child, these babies & others have to suffer horrifically like this? Shame on us all. Will we ever learn anything? Unbearable.
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#Gaza
#C4News
"We're dealing with cases daily of children dying of hunger."
Despite new efforts to ramp up delivery aid into Gaza, the north of the strip is seeing a widespread hunger rampant amongst children.
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After 19 yrs’ work in TV including directing several docs, a BBC2 1hr doc, a Panorama, when I pitched a doc to a white male TV exec that a female colleague & I had already been working on for 1 yr & already filmed half of, so pitching actual material not talking theoretically 1/3
I’m a presenter and doc host. I have worked with dozens of directors. This is important for all the women I’ve worked with. Who have doubted themselves to oblivion. You were right.
#whitemaleprivilege
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Terrible news. This is what the Assad regime does - forcibly disappears people and puts their families through hell for years. Thinking of Majd Kamalmaz's family & all the families of
#Syria
's disappeared. Free the detainees.
Maryam Kamalmaz says she met with 8 US officials in Washington this month who presented her with credible information that her father, Majd, had died early in his captivity in Syria.
“What more do I need?” she told me.
A sad outcome.
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It’s over a year since Mazen was disappeared in Syria. I hope for his release every day. Please read this devastating piece by
@LizSly
. Survivors need help & hope. Detainees & their families need the world to act. Free Mazen Alhummada. Free the detainees.
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@patrickwintour
We need to see FCO legal advice. I find it hard to believe that after ICJ Genocide case & Dutch ruling that advice is "it is impossible...to tell if humanitarian law is being breached". But wouldn't even this require caution & halt in arms sales in case IHL is being breached?
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Where is this family, these children? I think about them, their faces, these photos ever since we made ‘Syria’s Disappeared’. I think about their relatives waiting 7 yrs now for any news. 7 years. We have to hold on to hope & show solidarity to families of
#Syria
’s
#Disappeared
.
2770 days since Dr. Rania Abbasi and her family were forcibly disappeared by
#assad
regime.
Dima, Intisar, Najah, Alaa, Laian are supposed to turn 21, 19, 17, 15, 10 years old but they've been in prison for 7 years!
We won't forget or forgive!
#DayOfTheGirl
@FamiliesSyria
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Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish was tortured, almost left for dead in regime detention for 3 yrs. Since his release he’s pursued justice with a group of survivors & lawyers & filed cases.Yesterday he attended the 1st day of the 1st trial in the world of
#Syria
’s torture machine. Hero
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Fascinating Ep 2 of Nazanin today. Damning indictment of British Labour government in 2000s deciding to not abide by the ruling of international courts re the tanks deal. Would like to hear answers from the people in charge at the time.
#FreeNazaninNow
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The kindness & generosity of Berliners welcoming
#Ukrainians
into their homes, & a
#Syrian
man who fled to Germany now helping
#Ukrainians
fleeing
#Russian
atrocities. Very moving piece. In all the heartbreaking news, there’s some hope for humanity.
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Life comes at you fast: pundits on Russian TV realize that their military is failing and their country is in trouble. They are starting to play the blame game. Some of them finally understand that their genocidal denial of the Ukrainian identity isn't working in Russia's favor.
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I'm daily seeing videos or hearing accounts of terrible attacks on
#Syrians
in
#Lebanon
. Why isn't anyone doing anything about this?! Why isn't it being discussed beyond here? It's criminal and heartbreaking.
In the village of Tabarja in Lebanon, a Syrian refugee is subjected to a brutal assault by criminals. The Syrian refugee had returned from his work as a daily laborer, eagerly awaited by his children to bring them some gifts for Eid al-Fitr. However, he returned with his body
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Pls show solidarity with these women holding photos of their disappeared loved ones. They’re some of the bravest, most inspirational people I know. They deserve to know what’s happened to their loved ones & the
#Syrian
regime must be held accountable. Pls follow
@FamiliesSyria
On the
#InternationalDayoftheDisappeared
, we were standing today outside the Russian embassy in Berlin to demand action & justice for the +100,000 people still missing in
#Syria
#FreeSyriasDisappeared
Photos: Mohammed Abdullah (Artino)
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Utterly devastating news about Raed Fares, a Syrian who campaigned for democracy & education, who stood up to Assad & to extremist groups & was targeted by both. Pls remember him & his words: “Revolutions are ideas and ideas cannot be killed by weapons.”
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This is a heartbreaking photograph. Free the detainees.
#Syria
It's very difficult to explain how it felt to carry portraits of 61
#detainee
among which is my own dad all the way to
#alkhatibtrial
in
#Koblenz
.
I received tens of messages from families of
#detainees
, asking if I can hold thier loved ones' photos.
This is
#Assad
's Syria..
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I can’t believe the horrific news about James Le Mesurier. He did so much to help save lives in
#Syria
as co-founder of
@SyriaCivilDef
. I’m lost for words. My thoughts are with his friends and family.
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Wow.
#Newsnight
. A
#Johnson
supporting MP (Adam Holloway) accuses the programme of making Johnson look like Hannibal Lecter. Apparently this is all the media’s fault. Especially the poor people doing graphics at Newsnight. He’s lost the plot.
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Today’s verdict in
#Koblenz
is a historic step on the long road to justice for
#Syrians
, made possible by the bravery of torture survivors & the families of the disappeared. My thoughts are with the tens of thousands still disappeared in Assad’s prisons.
#SaveTheSyrianDetainees
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Watch the brilliant
@MrJones_Film
written by
@AndreaChalupa
& starring
@jginorton
to see the horror Stalin inflicted on
#Ukrainians
, the journalist who tried to uncover it & the Western useful idiots who denied it. I will never forget this film & it couldn’t be more relevant now.
I just watched the brilliant & harrowing
@MrJones_Film
. Everyone should watch this film - it is so important historically, but so relevant now. Starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby & Peter Sarsgaard.
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If you want to know more about
#Syria
& President
#Assad
@DerbyChrisW
I urge you to watch our
@Channel4News
investigation broadcast this month
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@omid9
We watched the game on the BBC HD channel and we heard the chants of ‘beesharaf’ very clearly. The BBC also specifically mentioned it in their excellent TV news package by
@Shaimaakhalil
on the 6 & 10 o’clock news.
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It's plausible to wonder whether the reason why doctors who've worked in
#Gaza
are being targeted by Israel & its allies is because they can provide vital witness testimony in the many war crimes cases that will ensue. Just like the journalists & the aid workers. It's chilling.
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So sad watching this video. These smiling faces have been disappeared for so long. Rania Abbasi & her entire family: her 6 children, including her toddler, arrested & disappeared by the
#Syrian
regime in 2013. Over 6 years ago & still no news.
#InternationalDayoftheDisappeared
Today,
@amnesty
launches a new website that captures the stories of
#Syria
’s disappeared and missing. We will not stop until the families of the
#disappeared
know the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones. Join us in taking action:
#SyriaDisappeared
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Iain Duncan Smith on
#PoliticsLive
admiring how France sending ppl back to
#Syria
. Syria is not a safe country. Ppl have been arrested & disappeared on arrival. Regime & Russians still bombing some areas. Nobody challenges IDS. Just coz Syria is not in news doesn't mean it's safe
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Read this thread. Don't tell me Biden couldn't stop this now. He could, he can, he doesn't want to. And his words about minimising civilian casualties don't match his actions (see below). How many more civilians must die & for what? What numerical milestone will be too much? Any?
New: Blinken has approved the sale of 155 mm artillery shells and related gear to Israel by invoking an emergency authority that bypasses the standard congressional review for arms sales, the Biden administration said on Friday
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I don’t know about you, but I’m filled with awe every time I see images like this…
#Shahinshahr
, Nov 4th…
#Iran
#MahsaAmini
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He doesn’t want to commit to an interview with
@afneil
BEFORE the election; he didn’t want to release the
#RussiaReport
BEFORE the election; he won’t be investigated over Arcuri BEFORE the election. Vote tactically & ensure
#BorisJohnson
is no longer in power after the election.
Conservative leader Boris Johnson refuses to commit to an interview with Andrew Neil before the general election
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Huge congratulations
@waadalkateab
@watts_edward
everyone in
@forsamafilm
& who worked on the film. Incredibly powerful speech by Waad, please share. As she says, “Let the
#Syrian
people hear your voice.” Go to
@ActionForSama
to do more.
#Idlib
#IdlibUnderFire
#BAFTA
#BAFTA2020
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I’m utterly shocked
@FilippoGrandi
. Some
#Syrian
refugees who’ve returned have been arrested & disappeared by the regime, including one of my friends. And there are sadly many others. Did you raise their cases in your discussion with a regime accused of crimes against humanity?
The UN refugee agency chief met with Assad’s regime to discuss refugee returns. He said they discussed ways “to cooperate in removing obstacles to the return of refugees.”
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Thank you
@DMiliband
for focussing on civilians in
#Gaza
& the threat to the Geneva Conventions by Israel's actions in i/v on
#Newsnight
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Really looking forward to this. Congrats to
@NatashaMardikar
for securing this rare & exclusive interview with the incredible
#BridgetRiley
& producing it for Newsnight. Great to see it’s been made into a 1 hour doc for BBC 2. Nice work by Jonathan Callery who shot the interview.
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Michael Gove insufferable on
#radio4today
. This government doesn’t seem to understand what humility & respect mean. What a terrible example it sets.
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#SyriasDisappeared
doc about the tens of thousands of civilians tortured & disappeared by the
#Syrian
regime will be screened at the Human Nord Film Festival in
#Norway
on 7 April:
#SaveTheRest
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One of the saddest stories of so many sad stories of
#Syria
's disappeared. I think about those children, this family a lot. What's happened to them? It's been more than a decade. Free Rania Al Abbasi her husband & children & free all the political prisoners in Syria.
#SaveTheRest
Video of a BABY GIRL and her Brothers and Sisters who the
#Syria
Regime abducted with their Mother and Father ..little kids into his prisons, never to be seen again...what world doesn't CRY OUT TO HEAVEN against that EVIL
#SaveTheRest
#FreeRaniaAbbasi
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@monisha_rajesh
Exactly. It reminds me of the scenes in the Hunger Games movies where the ppl living in the Capitol are having lavish parties wearing silly clothes & wigs, all while the ppl in the districts are being murdered & oppressed.
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Also what
@maitlis
called out tonight in her
#MacTaggart
lecture is a story. Yet I saw no mention on
#BBCNewsTen
& nothing thus far
@BBCNewsnight
. It’s not parochial. It’s important to our democracy. At the v least didn’t the media correspondents want to cover it on the TV news?
The BBC website's report on
@maitlis
's speech completely omits any mention of Robbie Gibb. As if the Corporation is seeking to confirm her argument about its censorship
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If there is one TV series you watch this year, make it
#asmalllight
. I can’t recommend it enough & I can’t stop thinking about it.
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I just watched the brilliant & harrowing
@MrJones_Film
. Everyone should watch this film - it is so important historically, but so relevant now. Starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby & Peter Sarsgaard.
I wrote and produced a film set in 1933 directed by Agnieszka Holland called
@MrJones_Film
, about Russia's attack on Ukraine and propaganda warfare aided by Western corruption, including leading journalists. History is a mirror we're forced to look into:
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