So, I come from the part of New York that Congressman Mike Lawler represents.

I've been writing to him since 2023, in the hopes that, I don't know, he would hear something.

This is how that went: 🧵

Amnesty International will host a press conference to present the findings of a new report, 'Aftermath: Injustice, Torture and Death in Detention in North-East Syria.'
📍 Beirut, Lebanon,
📆 Monday 15 April 2024
🕐 12.00 EEST

Register here 👇

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Among those NOT released from prison in Bahrain's royal pardon are Hassan Mushaima, the head of the opposition group Al-Haq, and Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a Danish-Bahraini human rights defender serving a life sentence in Bahrain for peaceful human rights work theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Aside from journalism, almost every day we cook meals to feed the displaced in schools in North Gaza. With our very limited supplies, we cook and distribute meals to hundreds every day. We appreciate all the aid workers who were killed while trying to help us in Gaza, but our…

New Amnesty International research shows a horrifying surge in executions in Iran. In 2023, at least 853 people were executed, including for acts that should never result in the death penalty. Those executed included protesters, dissidents and social media users for their online activities.

This was Zomi in Pakistan….like so many other missions….always a brave soul….an Angel….
Dear Zomi I have no words….but I promise you, your spirit will always be with us…we will always feed people, with love and kindness….you made all of us better…..You made invisible…

The Israeli military is using an AI targeting program called Lavender that tagged around 37,000 Gazans as suspected militants, has around a 10% error rate, and led to systematic targeting of suspects in their family homes, +972 Magazine reports: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

This is Saif Essam Abu Taha, the young Palestinian translator and driver who was killed today by Israeli strikes which targeted the car carrying aid workers affiliated with World Central Kitchen.

Remember his name. Remember his photo.

An “unintended strike” that struck the same clearly marked convoy that had coordinated with the IDF, three separate times.

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This is Zomi Frankcom (Zomi), an Australian national who was working with World Central Kitchen to deliver food to Palestinians experiencing starvation in Gaza.

Today, Israeli strikes targeted a car she & other aid workers were in, killing her.

Remember her name. Remember her smile.

After over 10 years of the infamous 'foreign funding' case against Egyptian human rights defenders, the case is finally closed.

Looking forward to seeing human rights defenders hossam bahgat حسام بهجت Mohamed Zare3 aidaseif Gamal Eid finally able to travel & accessing their assets.

Even more evidence indicating that #Israel 's attack on a group of 7 journos in south #Lebanon on 13 October, which killed Issam Abdallah, was likely a direct attack on civilians that must be investigated as a war crime.

Read Amnesty International's investigation here: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

#Iran : Authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting women drivers.
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While there is a desperate need for humanitarian aid amidst the catastrophic crisis we are witnessing across the occupied Gaza Strip – air drops are not the solution. Air drops are wasteful, woefully insufficient and potentially dangerous.
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One month after the ICJ ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in occupied Gaza from the risk of genocide by ensuring sufficient humanitarian assistance and enabling basic services, Israel has failed to take even the bare minimum steps to comply👇

Israel struck a civil defence centre in the village of Blida last night. Lebanon's General Directorate of Civil Defence has announced the death of 2 paramedics, Hussein Khalil and and Mohammed Ismail. Enraged and heartbroken at this targeting of rescue workers.

Every medical or humanitarian aid worker who entered and left Gaza and went public said it is hell on earth that Israel has created and actively maintains. For months. For months we've also had warnings that hunger and disease will kill more than the 30,000 killed by airstrikes.

Amal Al-Durr was killed in an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon today.

More than 40 civilians, including at least 7 children (all under the age of 15), have been killed in Lebanon since October 7.
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UN human rights experts report disturbing sexual abuse of Palestinian women in Israeli custody. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…