Avner Gidron
@AvnerGidron
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Senior Policy Adviser at Amnesty International. Tweets are my own; retweets not endorsements.
Joined November 2011
9 December = International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime #ICC joins global efforts to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of grave crimes. #MoreJustWorld
“Genocide is an abomination.” On Tuesday’s #PreventGenocide Day, @antonioguterres says by standing united against this heinous crime, we honour its victims and survivors, and uphold the right of all people to live in safety, dignity and peace. https://t.co/qh5sk60z3N
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The voice of Palestinian civil society @pchrgaza @AlMezanCenter @AlHaq must continue to be heard at ICC-ASP sessions, despite US coercive measures and threats. These NGOs, as well as UNSR @FranceskAlbs & @IntlCrimCourt officials, all sanctioned by Trump, deserve our full support.
Despite the unlawful and unprecedented US sanctions imposed on our organizations, a delegation from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, @alhaq_org , and @AlMezanCenter participated in the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
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4 Russian Soldiers Sentenced to Prison for Killing Texan Who Fought for Moscow
nytimes.com
Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to death after he was suspected of being an American saboteur, investigators said.
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#ICC Trial Chamber I sentences Mr #AbdAlRahman to 20 years of imprisonment, following the trial judgment in which he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in #Darfur #Sudan. 📖 More info in press release to come
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Larry Ellison, the world’s 2nd-richest man, predicts an AI surveillance state where “we’re constantly recording & reporting everything.” Are we headed toward a future where every call, text, email & search is tracked by billionaires? That's not democracy. It's authoritarianism.
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ICC judge sanctioned by Russia and the United States: "But none of these have deterred us as judges, because those sanctions are designed to attack our independence as judges, and we are not giving up our independence. As judges, we are more united than ever"
Prominent jurist Luz Ibanez tells MEE how her life has been impacted by US sanctions, and why she is not deterred from carrying out her work in The Hague ⤵️ https://t.co/16CRudhmQK
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“Whatever you’re reading, the reality is worse. That’s my intuition based on years of reporting on the West Bank and Gaza. What you’re reading, what you’re seeing, what manages to get out — the actual reality is worse.” @yuval_abraham on The +972 Podcast. https://t.co/8hJ41STB0J
972mag.com
+972's Yuval Abraham takes us inside his investigations into the Gaza war and the legal and moral challenges he faces when reporting.
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ICC sentences #darfur Janjaweed militia leader to 20 years for #WarCrimes and #CrimesAgainstHumanity
reuters.com
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced a Janjaweed militia leader to 20 years in prison for atrocities committed in Sudan’s Darfur region, including beating detainees to...
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Women running a marathon without veils should never lead to arrests. Yet Iranian authorities have detained organisers and continue punishing women and girls resisting compulsory veiling. Anyone arbitrarily detained in relation to compulsory veiling must be released.
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.@amnesty : EU Ministers propose unprecedented detention, sanctions, and stripping of rights based on migration status
amnesty.org
The EU’s insistence on ramping up deportations, raids, surveillance, and detention at any cost is dogged and misguided.
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.@amnesty : #Syria - A year after Assad’s fall, the rights of survivors and families must guide transition https://t.co/LE79ea2qmP
#WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity
amnesty.org
Syria’s new authorities must break with the past and commit to delivering justice, truth and reparations while securing human rights for all.
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"The bottom line: there is no legal basis for targeting the drugs, the boats carrying them, or the people on board. That is true under the law that applies (international human rights law) and under the law that does not apply (the law of armed conflict)."
For policymakers, lawmakers, commentators and the public: We provide a detailed review of the international law relevant to lethal operations against suspected drug boats I teamed up with top experts Mike Schmitt and Tess Bridgeman 1/2
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Elon Musk’s ten-year $1 trillion pay package is worth more than the combined pay of: Every elementary school teacher in America. Every cashier in America. Every restaurant cook in America. Every farmworker in America. Every bartender in America. Insanity. Billionaire tax now.
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The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”
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Despite viral videos of its repainted maternity ward, Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital remains "far from fully operational," with core medical buildings destroyed, humanitarian groups say @ztnagham
https://t.co/nKtw4ckjrK
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Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus
theintercept.com
Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America.
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Couldn’t attend the #ASP24? this is what you need to know ⤵️ And thank you Mark for kind shout out to my book on the Assembly, and for the time together in The Hague 🍻
Signs of resilience in the midst of troubling times in The Hague: Some thoughts on the good and the bad from this year’s Assembly of States Parties https://t.co/WYoqYZzIqA
#ICC #ASP24
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There is no legal basis for these strikes. The right of individual self-defense is not engaged as there is no armed attack against the United States. No other State requested that we use force in collective self-defense. LOAC doesn't apply, but even if it did 👇🏽
The existence of armed conflict is a factual matter and the justification for using force needs a separate basis – in NIAC, it is the threat that “terrorists” or members of armed groups pose to innocent life or the security of the state. 5/7
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🚨 #Tunisia: On 2 & 4 Dec authorities arrested human rights lawyer #AyachiHammami and opposition figure #AhmedNejibChebbi for their peaceful political opposition. Their detention is arbitrary & politically-motivated. We call on the authorities to release them NOW! 🚨 On 29 Nov,
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The IDF Is Building A Fence Through the Jordan Valley, Cutting Off Palestinians From 11k Acres of Their Land
haaretz.com
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