Alex Howlett

Author, journalist & investigator

[Fortify Rights @FortifyRights]

#Myanmar women political prisoners face torture, sexual violence, and other abuses at the hands of the military behind prison walls, reports @AlexHowlett2 @guardian.

"Sexual violence is being used as a tool of intimidation against women from arrest through interrogation and detention in Myanmar," says @sengchit, Senior Human Rights Specialist at @FortifyRights.

"When it comes to women, [the authorities] will use anything to control and punish, to ensure that people are compliant."

https://t.co/yrHTh0ag70

[Nwe @scarlletnn]

#Myanmar women political prisoners face torture, sexual violence, and other abuses at the hands of the Junta military behind prison walls, reports @AlexHowlett2 @guardian.

#2026Jun15Coup
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#WarCrimesOfJunta

https://t.co/XUhrw3V4WO…

[Alex Howlett @AlexHowlett2]

Latest story for the Guardian about the female activists, journalists and protestors who have endured years of torture and abuse in Myanmar's prisons

https://t.co/YYEa3UVYMw

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Derided and undermined but what I didn’t say in the moment is that our Palestinian colleagues have also been killed in their hundreds by Israel in Gaza https://t.co/OumxjHkXKO

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

“Gaza had been celebrating since the news broke, but grief was never far away.”

Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza, writes for @nybooks: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
https://t.co/gbfMjuF5vw

[SOS MEDITERRANEE @SOSMedIntl]

"In a sea of silence, abandonment and violence, they offer the rarest thing: someone is still looking for you. […] That your life matters."

Journalist @AlexHowlett2 was onboard the #OceanViking during 2 rescues and the shootings by Libyan Coast Guard.👇

https://t.co/MSpAupfkPY

[Alex Howlett @AlexHowlett2]

My story for @service95 on @SOSMedIntl's Ocean Viking. The Libyan 'coast guard' opened fire, risking the lives of 87 survivors and crew.

It was a privilege to see them in action. Truly incredible & resilient people.

#searchandrescue #Mediterranean

https://t.co/7VOlkSoNeu

[Bel Trew @Beltrew]

Mariam, killed by Israeli strike today, had the chance to leave Gaza to be with her son but she chose to stay to report and to look after her parents, her friends told us. She gave a kidney to her father. Her mother, unable to get proper treatment, died from cancer 4 months ago

[The TLS @TheTLS]

Alex Howlett (@AlexHowlett2): unmasking the architects of the grim world of human trafficking
https://t.co/apStFutJdy

[Alex Howlett @AlexHowlett2]

My review of Barbie Latza Nadeau's book 'Every Body Counts: Money, lies and the hidden trade in human lives' in the TLS: https://t.co/WTymlx7Cdn

As human trafficking becomes the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, Nadeau's book is nothing less than essential reading

[GhostofDurruti @DurrutiRiot]

You're watching armed French cops attacking a father and his small child yesterday as they try to board a boat bound for the UK. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. This is what fascism looks like.

[Alex Howlett @AlexHowlett2]

If you’re free on 18th June please come to this free event at Pimlico Library where we’re chairing a panel with the incredible @SOSMedIntl and @4refugeewomen 6:15 -7:15 ❤️

[Westminster Libraries and Archives @WCCLibraries]

📢 Join us to celebrate the contributions and resilience of refugees and people seeking asylum with a special panel talk lead by the authors of Wander Women: Tales of Transgression in a Bordered World!

📅 Wednesday 18 June
📍Pimlico Library
🔗 https://t.co/XMx2Y8sACc

[Nahed hajjaj @nahed_hajjaj99]

This is my journalistic colleague Motaz Rajab. Did you know he was murdered yesterday?

No one spoke of him because a journalist being killed in Gaza is a daily occurrence.

You only kill journalists when truth is your enemy.

[John Hendren @johnhendren]

https://t.co/pDcrs2sO6D

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Gaza’s Health Ministry urges the UN to declare a famine, saying 92% of children and pregnant women now suffer from severe malnutrition.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://t.co/wNsCbZM5x2

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) says nearly 3,000 aid trucks are piled up at Gaza’s border, unable to cross due to Israel’s now two-month blockade.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://t.co/bKecJbxpgc

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Foreign doctors returning from Gaza have reported that on a near-daily basis, they personally saw children in hospital for gunshot wounds to the head.

What Israel is doing to Palestinian children isn't some by-product of an indiscriminate assault. It's targeted.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At least six infants have died from hypothermia in Gaza during a two-week cold spell, as the UN calls on Israel to lift restrictions on shelters entering the besieged enclave.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://t.co/LL3mY5uTQM

[The Independent @Independent]

China's tuna vessels used North Korea crews in breach of UN bans, report says https://t.co/rqjH7myJ2E

[Alex Howlett @AlexHowlett2]

“Their families don’t have any idea whether they are still alive or not"

@nytimes coverage of @ejfoundation's new report revealing that Chinese fishing vessels used North Korean labour in breach of UN sanctions. The NK crew spent up to a decade at sea

https://t.co/PsFrVV1Oke