And there comes a time when fundamental rights scholars need a lawyer to defend their right to defend the rights of others from disproportionate intervention. Never did I think this need would arise for me in Germany. In 2024.

⚠️Neu⚠️Human Rights Watch fordert eine öffentliche Erklärung der Bundesregierung, ob sie ein Schengen-weites Einreiseverbot für Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta verhängt hat, und falls ja, wie dies mit dem Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung & auf Versammlungsfreiheit vereinbar ist.
 
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The Observer view on Sudan’s civil war: a humanitarian disaster we choose to ignore theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In Georgia🇬🇪, last night saw largest protests in decades--against the ruling party’s “foreign Influence” bill. Ruling party claims it’s for transparency, but their statements & actions + recent developments show it’s about stigmatizing their critics. 🧵hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

This smearing campaign is so familiar to academics from Turkey who were labeled as terrorists for condemning human rights violations in Kurdish-majority towns & asking for peace in 2016. Ironically, Germany offered refuge to some of those exiled academics back then.

2016 Türkei's loading in Germany. German Präsident visited Ankara Üniversitesi recently. Uni expelled +100 peace acedemics. German acadmics can seek refuge there as we came 2 Germany after Erdogan targeted peace acdemics&our names published in Turkish papers in 2016. Irony is stone dead!

It’s been 2 years since my aunt #ShireenAbuAkleh was killed by an Israeli soldier and life has not been the same since. No one has been held accountable & the U.S. has failed our family in holding the killer responsible.
#JusticeforShireen .

Wie meine Kollegin Yasmine Ahmed sagt: Inwiefern ist es mit seinem Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung und friedliche Versammlung vereinbar, einen britischen Pal Doktor daran zu hindern, über das zu sprechen, was er in Gaza erlebt hat: 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇳🇱?

“None of the people who cancelled the event [in Frankfurt] had read the book”

Russia is setting an example for other countries with its foreign agent law - Georgia has been rocked with protests because of country’a ruling party re- introducing this law. Now Turkey’s ruling party is proposing “foreign influence agent law” ⬇️

A Jewish student at Cambridge University gives MEE a tour of the Cambridge Encampment for Gaza.

“There's many of us here in Cambridge. Jews who believe that it is our duty, to speak out against the genocide that is being, carried out in our name, by the Israeli state”

Georgia: 🇬🇪Among the possibly hundreds targeted with abusive, anonymous calls warning not to protest the 🇬🇪'foreign influence' bill is rights defender Ucha Nanuashvili, whose son, 19, got a call saying, 'If you attend the rallies about the law, we'll break your bones'

Report we released today on ethnic cleansing in West Darfur captures most shattering research I have been part of in my many yrs Human Rights Watch. UN and AU, in collaboration with IGAD, should urgently deploy to Sudan a mission with a mandate to protect civilians hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

These are sad parallels with Academics for Peace Petitioners in Turkey. Signatories were relentlessly targeted by the authorities. Their right to freedom of expression vindicated by the Constitutional Court 3 years after. I recommend the Minister read the #Rabat Plan of Action.

Germany’s assault on freedom of assembly & expression is relentless.

Instead of defending academic freedom & denouncing police violence, the education minister is defaming
University professors who are doing so.

🚨 #Darfur #Sudan : The RSF & allies carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Massalit &other non-Arab populations in El Geneina.

👉🏿We are calling for urgent deployment of civilian protection mission.

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Mali : Des groupes islamistes armés et des milices ethniques commettent des atrocités bit.ly/44A69Zx

NEW @HRW research on several cases shows Israeli forces have unlawfully used lethal force in shootings of Palestinians in the WB.

According to UN figures, killings in the WB are taking place at a level w/o recent precedent.

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The police forcefully interferes in student protests in Berlin universities on a day when nobody knows how many of the 600,000 children crammed into Rafah will have their next meal or a place to sleep. Germany needs
to stop making a mockery of the right to peaceful assembly.

#Russland 'Deren Spur zu verfolgen, einzelne Verantwortliche zu identifizieren – ist eine Mammutaufgabe.'

Wie aufwendig die Recherchen dazu sind, zeigten Human Rights Watch, Truth Hounds & SITU Research mit dem Bericht über die Besetzung & Zerstörung von #Mariupol .

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