Congratulations @MichaelPolakLaw on this important result. Judgment: https://t.co/Q6jH2TTzVl

Draft New IMO Guidelines on the Fair Treatment of Seafarers – an international human rights law perspective | by Alex Tinsley (@AlexLouisT) https://t.co/w2PvYNg2TX

Left this bag, containing these two jackets, in Clissold Park yesterday. If anyone has it, or seen it, please let me know by reply! Thanks! @clissoldpeople

#JulianAssange released from prison and returns to Australia. Edward Fitzgerald KC acted for Mr Assange in the UK #extradition proceedings, together with Mark Summers KC and Florence Iveson of Matrix Chambers; Jennifer Robinson (@suigenerisjen) worked on the plea deal

We did it. 14 years of legal battles and we are finally taking him home to Australia to be reunited with @Stella_Assange and his kids - and giving him his life back. So many thank yous to make - and will come. Can’t wait to touch down in 🇦🇺

Note - expulsion is different from the mechanisms by which INTERPOL / the Commission for the Control of Files can stop sates using the system, in individual cases or more generally. See this helpful explainer:

Interested to hear from @SaharZand, @Billbrowder and others if anyone knows the latest on this.

The General Assembly is two weeks away and it is hard to guess where this may go. A constitutional amend requires a 2/3rds majority. I suspect there is active lobbying going on to build coalitions etc. but very little of that makes it into the public domain.

The resolutions give little away. The outputs of the Working Group are not public. Opacity rules. But Russia did disclose in Sept 2023 that 'unfriendly countries' were trying to have it expelled: https://t.co/g9S0fxnW9U. So, it looks like the issue is still live.

Russia advanced some other resolutions, which are impossible to understand without the underlying reports which are not public. It looks like a "noyer le poisson" strategy to obstruct the other initiative.

So, at the last General Assembly (Nov 2022), the General Assembly adopted a resolution instructing a Working Group to look at (i) amends to legal texts to set criteria for expulsion and (ii) proposals for immediate action. See: https://t.co/vZVU5Z8l8e

There were calls for Russia to be expelled / cut off from INTERPOL. INTERPOL's General Secretariat took some measures but said (a) there is no constitutional basis for expulsion ( https://t.co/OVwi9FVqxB) and (b) membership issues were for the General Assembly (widely reported)

Background - After the invasion, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe (March 2022) and suspended from the UN Human Rights Council (April 2022) (which it then quit). It also ceased to be a party to the ECHR with effect from September 2022.

Later this month @INTERPOL_HQ its General Assembly in Vienna - what will happen to the initiatives for expulsion of a member? An explainer.

Well done to @AllSeafarers (All India Seafarers Union) and others for their work on this case.

Please can I direct you to the IMO email inbox where you will find my letter, detailed memorandum and evidence bundle (36 pages total). A letter of reply with an explanation of what the IMO can do to ensure Fair Treatment and a proposed course of action would be welcome.

So @IMOHQ I fear your response referring me to a generic FAQ page with a welfare contact rather underlines the observation made by the UN Special Rapporteur in his report of Jul 23 (A/HRC/54/25/ADD.2) about the lack of credible human rights mechanisms within the IMO:

Dear @IMOHQ please see my communication on behalf of @SalamSiyaab, a seafarer held in Indonesia amid a dispute with the ship owner. We say the current restriction on his movement is contrary to the Fair Treatment Guidelines, Abandonment Guidelines and the ICCPR.

Dear @UNSR_Migration please see my communication to you (ref yi6ebokq) about this seafarer - a migrant worker - caught in the middle of a financial dispute between gov and ship owner. Real concern that the spirit of the @IMOHQ Fair Treatment Guidelines is not being honoured.

Congratulations @keztob who will continue the amazing work of @Pipermigration @the3million as their new Head of Policy & Advocacy. We are also glad that Kezia will continue with us part-time @GoldsmithIMM_PL - Find out more about @the3million here👉 https://t.co/Gw9uZST6EZ 🎉🇪🇺🇬🇧