RT @LaurieHanna: “For Uyghurs, every day without action means more families are torn apart…”. New testimony gathered by @Amnesty reveals st….

Jimmy Lai is a prisoner of conscience. His prosecution is motivated solely by him exercising his right to freedom of expression and his commitment to press freedom. The Hong Kong authorities must release Lai immediately and unconditionally and drop all charges against him. 4/4.

The “evidence” cited included Lai’s proposal that human rights issues be made conditions in international trade negotiations, and that by calling the CCP the “enemy of the world,” Lai was implying it should be punished, thereby indirectly seeking foreign sanctions. 3/4.

Despite admitting that Lai never directly requested foreign governments to impose sanctions on Hong Kong or China after the implementation of the National Security Law, the prosecution maintained that his overall statements and conduct could still constitute a “request.” 2/4.

Prosecutors continued to rely on vague and political language to accuse Jimmy Lai of endangering national security during his closing arguments hearing in Hong Kong, media reports show. 1/4

States must investigate Big Tech for human rights harms linked to anti-competitive practices, break up companies whose monopoly power harm human rights & investigate the emerging generative AI sector to establish human rights risks and impacts from anti-competitive practices.

Addressing their dominance is critical, not only as a matter of market fairness but as a pressing human rights issue. Breaking them up will help create an online environment that is fair & just.

Five companies - Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon & Apple act as digital landlords who determine the shape & form of our online interaction & their largely unchecked power poses serious risks to our right to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of opinion & access to information.

🚨 Today we have launched the ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing which calls on governments to rein in the power of big technology companies in order to protect human rights.

By undermining the work of human rights defenders and civil society actors, Georgian authorities are themselves sabotaging the human rights of their population. This crackdown on human rights must end 3/3.

By branding independent NGOs as “saboteurs,” the authorities are hampering their work and sending a chilling message to others who defend human rights in the country 2/3.

The space is shrinking in Georgia for civil society. Authorities have frozen the accounts of 7 NGOs and opened a criminal case for “sabotage,” alleging they funded protective gear for protesters. Unlike previous cases, this could lead to the arrest of the NGO's leaders 1/3

Daria Kozyreva has already spent nearly a year in pre-trial detention and was subjected to forced psychiatric evaluation. She is prisoner of conscience and must be freed immediately and unconditionally 3/3.

On the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Daria affixed the poet’s defiant words to his monument in St. Petersburg. Coupled with a blog post and an interview opposing the war, this act became the basis for her prosecution 2/3.

In Russia, even quoting a 19th-century poem can land you in prison. The St. Petersburg court today upheld Daria Kozyreva’s 2-year, 8-month sentence for “discrediting” the army — because she honoured the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko's call to “break the chains” of tyranny 1/3

RT @ErikaGuevaraR: 🚨The Israeli military’s extensive and deliberate destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern….

RT @LaurieHanna: "Israel blew it up. All of it. And they filmed the explosion. ". The Israeli military’s deliberate destruction of civilia….

RT @AJEnglish: Amnesty International is leading calls for a probe into Israel’s widescale destruction of civilian property in southern Leba….

RT @AlArabiya_Eng: Amnesty International says that the #Israeli army’s extensive destruction of civilian property in south #Lebanon, includ….

Today’s caning of two men in the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia for having consensual same-sex sexual relations is "a disturbing act of state-sanctioned discrimination and cruelty."