'As she walked onto the tarmac, a man walked toward her. She recognized him as Viktor Bout...he reached for a handshake...His hands were soft compared with her roughened ones; later she heard that he spent his time in prison painting pictures of cats.'
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“I can’t understand what’s happening in England…but I leave everything in the hands of God.”

For Prospect I’ve been following the case of Ibrahima Bah, a young asylum seeker convicted of manslaughter following a tragedy in the English Channel

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We speak to a Syrian man, at an immigration enforcement reporting centre in Loughborough, who tells Darshna Soni he was detained today and has been told he will be deported to Rwanda.

it's just extraordinary to me that the right has spent the past half a decade insisting free speech on college campuses was one of the most important issues of our time, and now they're all in favor of club-wielding thugs tackling protesters

Fantastic investigative piece by Will Coldwell in Prospect on the horrific manslaughter conviction of Ibrahima Bah

As people forced into deadly routes are increasingly the ones held accountable and punished for those deadly routes, super important we keep talking about & fighting for people like Ibrahima Bah.

This is really worth reading on how a young person from Senegal - an unaccompanied minor - ended up with a nine year prison sentence after he piloted a dinghy across the English Channel

This is an exceptional piece about Ibrahima Bah, a lad, a refugee, criminalised by the British government for trying to claim asylum here. That’s all he wanted to do.

And now two more Sudanese kids have been arrested.

One of the biggest human rights abuses gov is perpetrating.

The absolute state of this country

Anyone out there with some experience negotiating media access to prisoners? Got a couple of qs...

IK-7 prison camp in Siberia is similar to the one Navalny died in. Arkady Ostrovsky has been exchanging letters with a political prisoner there & has written an extraordinary portrait of life in the modern-day gulag - its secret hierarchies & black markets economist.com/1843/2024/02/2…