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Have still never seen a better protest sign that this by nuns in India demonstrating against sexual violence
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Thousands rally in central
#HongKong
tonight for event organized by local teachers' unions who say members are targeted by the govt for supporting the ongoing protests
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Protest today at
#hongkong
International Finance Centre a mix of office workers, schoolkids & shoppers
#HongKongProtesters
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But Xmas was tough for Boris, says
@annietrev
.
A few miles from Downing St, with my mum dying from Covid in hospital, I was looking after my dad who has advanced Alzheimer’s. We both had Covid. No-one could come in, no extra help. We respected the rules
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My guest piece for
@amnesty
on international lessons for
#HongKong
police inquiry
@WilsonLeungWS
@maryhui
@MandyLeeDUBHKG
@RobertJonGodden
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#Hongkong
lunchtime protest among the fancy brands of the Central shopping district.
Chants include usual favourites of "5 Demands, Not One Less" & "Carrie Lam, Go To Hell"
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#HongKong
is about to put on trial 15 veteran pro-democracy activists. We at
@humanrights1st
call on the authorities to drop the charges & cancel the trial. “International reaction should be strong & unequivocal in its condemnation.”
@stegersaurus
@KASKB
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Francine Chan of
@chrlcg
& myself in
@HongKongFP
on the need to protect human rights lawyers in mainland China &
#HongKong
@mizrdg
@CraigChoy
@jeromeacohen
@MFlaherty17
@WilsonLeungWS
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor writes in
@HongKongFP
about tomorrow’s trial of 15 veteran
#HongKong
activists
@WilsonLeungWS
@SophieMak1
@ShibaniMahtani
@creery_j
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At the Prince Edward metro station in
#HongKong
tonight for
@humanrights1st
to witness protestors marking 6 months since the incident here
@WilsonLeungWS
@maryhui
@SophieHRW
@stegersaurus
@KASKB
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#HongKong
10.20pm
Just filmed police cross the street at Nathan Rd & pepper spray peaceful protestors. At least two women injured
@MandyLeeDUBHKG
@WilsonLeungWS
@M_Breen
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#Poland
’s double standards:
I’m at the
#Belarus
border forests for
@humanrights1st
, where Polish authorities are attacking refugees from the Middle East & Africa & those defending them. So different from Poland’s great welcome of refugees at the
#Ukraine
border
@GrupaGranica
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Just up: UN Makes Public Independent Experts’ Fears Over Attacks On
#HongKong
Medics
@WilsonLeungWS
@SophieHRW
@MandyLeeDUBHKG
@templedoc1
@Hongkon84458416
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I was in
#HongKong
last week for
@humanrights1st
; here’s our report out today on what US Congress should do
@NickKristof
@CECCgov
@RepMcGovern
@bethanypoulos
@HongKongPLG
@WilsonLeungWS
@MFlaherty17
@SophieHRW
@selina_cheng
@homgkongfp
@SCMPNews
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Meet Alan the Pastor, who offers first aid & spiritual support at
#HongKong
protests
@WilsonLeungWS
@SophieMak1
@SophieHRW
@maryhui
@MadelineRoache
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If anyone in
#HongKong
wants help on deleting their internet history, we at
@humanrights1st
have issued this short guide in English & Chinese on erasing your digital footprint (we also issued a guide last week on avoiding online surveillance)
@SophieHRW
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50 years ago today October 21, 1970: Bernadette Devlin MP leaves prison after serving four months of a six months sentence for “riotous behaviour” in Derry
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如果
#HongKong
的任何人想要有關如何刪除其互聯網歷史記錄的建議，我們在
@humanrights1st
剛發佈以英文和中文發布此簡短指南，以消除您的數字足跡（上週我們還發布了避免數字監視的指南）
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That night of the
#DowningStreetParty
, May 20, 2020, was my mum’s 89th birthday.
We didn’t have a party because they weren’t allowed.
I thought then the rules applied to everyone.
It was her last birthday because she died from Covid months later.
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The UK all-party parliamentary report into violations by the
#HongKong
police against humanitarian workers is now out
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In January
@humanrights1st
published my piece about social media attacks on leading
@QUBHRC
human rights academic
@cjhumanrights
.
The attacks have now intensified. Here’s the piece again.
Please show your support for Colin’s right to academic freedom
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In 10 mins on Bloody Sunday, 30 Jan 1972, 21 British paratroopers fired 108 times at unarmed protestors in Derry. 26 civilians were shot. 14 died, 12 injured & 2 more run down by army vehicles. Tomorrow families are to learn if anyone more than Soldier F is to face prosecution.
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New piece in
@HongKongFP
from
@WilsonLeungWS
of
@HongKongPLG
& myself on urgent need for independent commission of inquiry in
#HongKong
@maryhui
@selina_cheng
@SophieHRW
@ShibaniMahtani
@sbanjo
@cliffordstott
@nathanlawkc
@LErnst_HKU
@RobertJonGodden
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As a journalist in my 20s I reported on the vilification & murder of Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane 33 years ago today.
Today smears continue against Belfast human rights lawyers, including
@cjhumanrights
Colin Harvey
@FinucaneCentre
@humanrights1st
@PatrickCorrigan
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Just out: New piece for
@humanrights1st
on importance of solidarity with Human Rights Defender Colin Harvey
@cjhumanrights
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We at
@humanrights1st
stand with families struggling for justice.
#hisnamewasjohnpatcunningham
@FinucaneCentre
@10DowningStreet
@DefenceHQ
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Hey
@BorisJohnson
@DominicRaab
, where’s the detail on the
#HongKong
BNO visa proposals?
@WilsonLeungWS
@creery_j
@IoWBobSeely
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Cancel Monday’s trial & drop the charges against the 15 veteran
#HongKong
activists
@ShibaniMahtani
@maryhui
@creery_j
@WilsonLeungWS
@SophieMak1
@Hongkon84458416
@MandyLeeDUBHKG
@decminhk
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My father died peacefully on Monday. He was many things, including one of
#Ireland
’s best marathon runners (2:38 & second place in the 1962 Irish national marathon). RIP Dad.
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We at
@humanrights1st
stand with those families looking for justice
STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY OF JOHN-PAT CUNNINGHAM AFTER THE UNVEILING OF A MEMORIAL TO DENNIS HUTCHINGS AT PALACE BARRACKS, HOLYWOOD, COUNTY DOWN
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At Tseung Kwan O where
#HongKong
schoolchildren are giving out info on best masks & organizing a petition to close the border with mainland China to prevent the spread of
#Coronavid19
@WilsonLeungWS
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For decades we at
@humanrights1st
have campaigned against the vilification of human rights lawyers & others in Northern Ireland. Now Prof. Colin Harvey
@cjhumanrights
is being attacked & it’s time to stand up for him
@MFlaherty17
@LawSociety_NI
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Impressive turnout for
#Armenia
protest in Vienna this afternoon
@KarenaAv
@aniboghoss
@AvetissianAn
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At tonight's event in Tseung Kwan O to commemorate the death of
#HongKong
student Alex Chow
#HongKongProtests
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#WhyImVotingUkip
is because I saw people on a train doing sign language & when I shouted "Go Back To Signland" they pretended not to hear
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For
#BlackHistoryMonth
in Ireland: In 1943 there were around 37,000 Black American soldiers stationed in the Six Counties. A Unionist MP complained that local women dating Black GIs “were mostly of the lowest type & belong to our [Catholic] minority”
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Powerful exhibition from the
@FinucaneCentre
includes testimonies from teenagers saying they were waterboarded by British soldiers in Belfast in the 1970s
@MFlaherty17
@danmahanty
@PradhanAlka
@AoifeDuffy2021
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Great piece by
@maryhui
for
@qz
on
#HongKong
’s failure to establish independent inquiry into police behaviour
@WilsonLeungWS
@scicluna_nb
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Mum’s in hospital with Covid. Am isolating with dad - we both have the virus too. He’s 92 & one thing that breaks through his Alzheimer’s is old music. Here he is reminding Elvis of the lyrics to Danny Boy.
Happy Christmas
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#Egypt
President Sisi arrives in Washington next week. My new
@DefenseOne
piece on why he’s a terrible ally for the US
@soltanlife
@declanwalsh
@BaheyHassan
@MicheleDDunne
@sarahmargon
@lalarian
@awhawth
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Prof Phil Scraton of
@QUBelfast
has issued a public statement in support of his colleague Colin Harvey
@cjhumanrights
which references the support Harvey has also had from
@FordhamLawNYC
Dean Matthew Diller, following social media attacks on Harvey
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Today is
#HumanRightsDay
Join me for an event to celebrate the work of
#HongKong
Human Rights Defender Albert Ho
12 Noon EST
This Thursday, celebrate International Human Rights Day with a special event honoring our 2020 Roger N. Baldwin Award Winner: Hong Kong-based human rights activist Albert Ho.
To register, visit . The virtual event kicks off at 12 PM ET.
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When Abdelrahman’s al-Shweikh’s mum Hoda heard her son was tortured in Minya prison she made a public call for help
Last night she was arrested & is charged with spreading fake news
Meanwhile
@USEmbassyCairo
is busy tweeting about supporting
#Egypt
’s military
@sarahleah1
@soltan
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China has passed the new security law aims at crushing dissent in
#HongKong
. The US govt should sanction Chinese & Hong Kong govt officials involved in human rights violations, & provide safe haven to Hong Kongers fleeing the regime
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Don’t take your eye off what’s happening in
#HongKong
as human rights lawyers & other veteran activists are arrested. More roundups likely, especially after UK govt’s feeble response.
@SophieMak1
@Hongkon84458416
@WilsonLeungWS
@SophieHRW
@MFlaherty17
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As President Sisi visits the White House, an
@AmyWoodyatt
piece just out in
@ForeignPolicy
on how ISIS recruits in
#Egypt
’s prisons
@margarettalev
@soltanlife
@kekyaxe
@kalnaga
@BaheyHassan
@seth_binder
@bethanypoulos
@amrwaked
@MicheleDDunne
@KASKB
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A year ago today I was at this
#HongKong
protest in Mong Kok when police attacked with tear gas. The repression has intensified since - elections scheduled for today have been postponed in a further assault on democracy
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2019 at the
#Iran
embassy, 2021 at the British Foreign Office, Richard Ratcliffe continues his protest to have Nazanin released from prison so she can come home
#FreeNazanin
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I’m continuing my work for
@humanrights1st
& from today I’ll also be Senior Advisor to the new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders,
@marylawlorhrds
, as she starts her three-year term. Please follow her for latest HRD news
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For
#BlackHistoryMonth
in Ireland: In 1971 civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey visited Black feminist icon Angela Davis in prison in the US. Davis told me of 1960s debates on whether the Six Counties “belonged politically to the Third World because of colonisation”
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Thanks
@RepMcGovern
for speaking out during the US Congressional
@TLHumanRights
hearings on the online attacks against Colin Harvey
@cjhumanrights
& raising
@humanrights1st
’s work on the vilification of lawyers
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The neverending saga for the
#bahrain
medics continues in court tomorrow morning. Justice delayed is justice denied.
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Time to free dissident
#bahrain
policeman Ali Al Ghanmi and all others detained after conviction by a sham military trial
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And some more pics for
#InternationalWomensDay
of women & girls protesting in recent weeks in
#HongKong
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Great seeing
@QUBelfast
Law Professor Colin Harvey
@cjhumanrights
. We at
@humanrights1st
have documented the smears against him for his human rights work
@MFlaherty17
@ecmassimino
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لسنوات عديدة ونحن في هيومن رايتس فيرست نطالب بالإفراج عن المدافع عن حقوق الإنسان في #البحرين، الدكتور عبد الجليل السنكيس.
اليوم أرسلت له مطارة ماء ساخن لأنه على الرغم من آلام ظهره الشديدة إلا أن السلطات ترفض إعطائه واحدة.
#الحرية_للسنكيس
@humanrights1st
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Amnesty International calls on British authorities to protect Colin Harvey
@cjhumanrights
who’s being subjected to a campaign of vilification
@MFlaherty17
@ecmassimino
@KASKB
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I wear this because when my parents’ generation emigrated from Ireland to England & looked for accommodation, they sometimes saw signs on places for rent like the one on the left
@cliosceptic
@barry_shep
@Luiseach
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نحن في هيومن رايتس فيرست نواصل دعوتنا للإفراج عن المدافع البحريني عن حقوق الإنسان عبد الجليل السنكيس، المسجون مدى الحياة بسبب نشاطه السلمي.
ترفض السلطات إعطائه مطارة ماء ساخن للتخفيف من آلام ظهره الشديدة ، لذلك سأرسل له واحدة.
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At London’s embassy of
#Iran
tonight with Richard Ratcliffe, who’s on hunger strike because his wife Nazanin is still in prison in Iran more than 3 years after being wrongly arrested
#freenazaninratcliffe
#freenazanin
@freenazanin
@GulfCentre4HR
@IvahannaLarrosa
@Amandalavan1
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Am hearing Abdelrahman Gamal Metwally Ibrahim Elshwekh has been beaten so severely by guards in
#Egypt
’s Al Minya prison over last 5 days he’s been hospitalised. His family want to know his medical state
@ECRF_ORG
@BaheyHassan
@declanwalsh
@josteinhk
@soltan
@seth_binder
@KASKB
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UN Independent Experts today voiced alarm at the online smear campaign against
@QUBelfast
Professor Colin Harvey
@cjhumanrights
& warned the vilification threatens academic freedom
@MFlaherty17
@ecmassimino
@MallinderLouise
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The Taliban now likely has biometric databases & tech in
#Afghanistan
, including some left by foreign military. Fooling facial recognition & fingerprint tech is hard & risky, but we at
@humanrights1st
have now issued these tips for activists & others
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As
@AMushaima
enters his 3rd week of hunger strike to protest the mistreatment of his father & other political prisoners in
#Bahrain
I will spend the night tonight in solidarity with him on the pavement outside Bahrain's London embassy
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Irish America, time to wise up & shape up to help stop Britain’s terrible legacy legislation.
My latest for
@humanrights1st
@cjhumanrights
@CAJNi
@FinucaneCentre
@90ButlerNatasha
@clancynewyork
@TheNewAmerLeft
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US Senators and Representatives oppose latest US military sales to
#Bahrain
; their letter to Hillary Clinton here
http://t.co/4mPAl8kT
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#Bahrain
HRD Abdulhadi Al Khawaja was arrested 10 years ago today. For a decade we at
@humanrights1st
have campaigned for his release. I’m doing an overnight prayer vigil outside the Bahrain embassy in London tonight for his release & the release of all HRDs
@AMushaima
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@sonyaphotoart
I’m so sorry you went through this. That date was my mum’s 89th & last birthday. Ofc we didn’t have a party, we stuck to the rules.
That day was the “Bring Your Own Booze” party in Downing St.
My mum died from Covid months later, no family allowed to visit her in hospital.
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47 years ago tonight the late Richard McIlkenny was wrongly arrested for the Birmingham Pub bombs, where the IRA killed 21 people. He & 5 others spent 17 years in jail for a crime they didn’t do. This is a prison letter he wrote to me in 1987 when I was covering the case
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I’m near the Poland-Belarus border for
@humanrights1st
not far from Hajnowka, where a group of people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq & Yemen & elsewhere are trying to claim asylum. Many are children. See clips below from Marta of
@GrupaGranica
for what’s happening
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For years we at
@humanrights1st
have supported
@AMushaima
in highlighting the case of his father & other
#Bahrain
dissidents in jail, including Abduljalil Al Singace, Abdulhadi Al Khawaja & Naji Fateel. Ali is back outside London’s Bahrain embassy now
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Barrister
@WilsonLeungWS
& myself on how the official report into
#HongKong
policing is its Widgery moment; a whitewash that has further broken public trust
@barry_shep
@MuseumFreeDerry
@cliffordstott
@NiallKeenan5
@benedictrogers
@lukedepulford
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On a quick visit to Belfast for
@humanrights1st
managed to catch up with the great
@cjhumanrights
& hear his reflections on human rights developments since the
#GoodFridayAgreement
25 years go
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With
@AMushaima
outside
#Bahrain
’s London embassy today. He has finished his hunger strike but his pavement protest continues, to highlight the ill-treatment of his father & other political prisoners
@angryarabiya
@ettrick49
@SAlwadaei
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This just out from UN Special Rapporteurs on proposed impunity on north of Ireland
@FinucaneCentre
@OMuirighSols
@MuseumFreeDerry
@CAJNi
@MFlaherty17
@RelsForJustice
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Delighted with myself for getting pic with Irish civil rights legend Michael Farrell at Dublin release of Bitter Legacy, new report on State impunity in Northern Ireland conflict
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#Bahrain
airport officials finally return passports to
@lars_aslan
& me & we're on our way out 24 hours after being categorised too much of a "security risk" to enter the country. We just wanted to see jailed human rights defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja.
I'll be back.
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10 years ago today I was in the military court in
#Bahrain
for
@humanrights1st
to observe the sham trial of human rights defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, but I was thrown out before the defendants were brought in. He was given a life sentence; it’s time to release him
@FrontLineHRD
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My mum died in hospital from Covid a year ago today.
Restrictions meant no family could be with her in her last weeks.
She was cared for by fantastic
#NHS
staff at
@ChelwestFT
who were overworked, dedicated & kind. We’ll always be grateful. Protect the NHS
@90ButlerNatasha
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#البحرين: المدافع عن حقوق الانسان عبدالجليل السنكيس بدأ احتجاجه قبل عام من هذا اليوم من أجل استرجاع بحثه الاكاديمي.
لا يجوز حبسه من الأساس.
رسالتي له من هيومن رايتس فيرست.
@humanrights1st
#الحريه_للسنكيس
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And now I’m getting reports that
#Egypt
security offices have arrested Abdelrahman’s mother & other family members from their home in Helwan, Cairo, after she spoke out against the treatment of her son in prison
@BaheyHassan
@soltan
@declanwalsh
@ryanheadedsouth
@KASKB
Am hearing Abdelrahman Gamal Metwally Ibrahim Elshwekh has been beaten so severely by guards in
#Egypt
’s Al Minya prison over last 5 days he’s been hospitalised. His family want to know his medical state
@ECRF_ORG
@BaheyHassan
@declanwalsh
@josteinhk
@soltan
@seth_binder
@KASKB
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After the *Irish born* debate over Cillian Murphy & a hierarchy of identity, am reupping this St Patrick’s Day piece I wrote for
@IrishTimes
years ago about 2nd gen Irish fighting in GPO
#StPatrickDay
@LMcAtackney
@barry_shep
@malonebarry
@KCsixtyseven
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My mum died in January. She always said she had - but had lost - a school certificate showing classes she passed.
I just found it & it’s beautiful - from Dingle 1944. She was 13
@numoorepain
@MimiVonPeach
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My dad was 92 this week & is slowing down a bit. This is him at 89...
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In Derry for
@humanrights1st
for
#BloodySunday51
; speaking on panel about ongoing British govt lawlessness; with Niall Murphy of
@KRWLaw
,
@memorials123
& human rights icon Gareth Peirce. Thanks for organising,
@FinucaneCentre
&
@BloodySundayT
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