Alison Battisson

Human Rights Lawyer
Director Principal @HumanRights4A
Director Principal Heretic Law
Advisor, incl things liberty

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

I just took action with @theactionnet: Not in our Name Women Australia. Take action here: https://t.co/Fd2IPnAobX

Let's protect transrights. Transrights are human rights.

I signed.

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

The catholic church has a long way to go on addressing historic and current issues but Pope Leo XIV is taking some good steps. Now to give some of that wealth back…

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

My client was groomed and abused in state care. His carer conducted a secret marriage ceremony when he was child. Now the very Minister that was his guardian at the time wants to remove him to Nauru for the rest of his life.

Australia failed this young man, who was placed in state care as a 16 year old orphan. The criminal justice system silenced him and failed him when evidence of the abuser's prior sexual history was deemed inadmissible, and in an incredible turn of events, he was convicted of her abuse.

Two independent Tribunal's have found that my client was abused in state care and he should be released into the Australian community. One recommended perjury charges be explored against the abuser.

If you care about justice and how Australia treats its most vulnerable, contact your local Federal Member or the Minister of Home Affairs and demand that my client not be sent to Nauru and is released from immigration detention to rebuild his life. Send this article with your correspondence.

https://t.co/qd3nseJG6h

#humanrights #refugee #Nauru #silenced

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

I have been raging all day about this. In 2022 Australia issued a tourist visa to Majid Khademi, then the Head of counter-espionage within the IRGC's Intelligence Organisation. Khademi went on to become the head of the entire organisation before he was killed in an airstrike just days ago. This shocking revelation only came to light because of an FOI request by the @australian
My head is still spinning. IRGC Intelligence arrested me in 2018 and subjected me to a sham trial, psychological torture, sexual harassment and gross violations of my human rights.
They extorted Australia to arrange the release of 3 convicted terrorists in exchange for my freedom. They arrested 3 other Australians at the same time as me to further pile on the pressure. Then, two years after my release, in the middle of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, we allow one of the top leaders of IRGC-Intel into Australia on a tourist visa.
We can assume Khademi wasn't here to check out the Opera House or dive the Great Barrier Reef.
What on earth are our security agencies doing to let this slip through? And what else have they missed? This negligence directly endangers myself and every Iranian-Australian who has found themselves a target of transnational repression coming out of Iran. How safe should we really be feeling here in our own country? And who else have they allowed to sneak in through the front door?
https://t.co/BXFas3Xg0J

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

Every female client I've had inside detention has been the victim of gendered violence. The @AusHumanRights recommendations must be followed immediately.

Women are being retraumatised inside Villawood and nothing is changing https://t.co/mcFrPFiNG1

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

@omid9

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

My client kicked away one of the guns during the Bondi massacre, potentially stopping more deaths. He faces removal to Nauru at any moment. Myself, his partner and children call on the Government to let him stay. His fate is in the hands of @Tony_Burke

https://t.co/qsEiOObjwd

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

@owenjonesjourno https://t.co/TQ54V7mwkr

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

@TraceyLeeHolmes @PahlaviComms While this is great news unless @PahlaviComms has permission to use their names and photos he really shouldn’t. It just increases risk.

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

The @nytimes has compiled an incredibly detailed and comprehensive account of the massacre committed in Iran, by direct order of Supreme Leader Khamenei. It was so graphic and so harrowing that I was unable to read to the end. If you know someone downplaying what happened or peddling conspiracies please show them this. @farnazfassihi
https://t.co/K7C09yPMOL

[Behrouz Boochani @BehrouzBoochani]

An Iranian-Persian nationalist claims that Reza Pahlavi is supported by Kurdish political parties. This is false. Kurdistan rejects any transition of power that would reproduce another Persian-supremacist system. #IranRevolution2026

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

Iraqi Shi'a 'popular mobilisation forces' and an Afghan division trained by Iran to fight in Syria, respectively. An overlooked aspect of the Islamic Republic's Axis of Resistance strategy thus far has been the role these proxies could play in securing the Iranian regime itself from domestic 'threats' inside the country (ie. training foreign proxies to defend the regime from the democratic aspirations of its own people)

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

@MichaelWestBiz @KMooreGilbert @MichaelWestBiz - @KMooreGilbert was wrongfully convicted on made up charges.

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

My interview yesterday with @abcnews The World Today
https://t.co/WlNlrbBqVj

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

Iranian regime officials have themselves acknowledged a death toll of 3000 protesters.
There are credible estimates based on high ranking sources within the regime and the photos, videos and testimony which has made it through the communications blockade that 12,000 are dead.
So why is the Australian media still reporting a figure of 500?
What has happened in Iran in the past few days has every hallmark of a massacre not seen since the 1979 revolution. It is crimes against humanity. When the regime allows its own media orgs to broadcast from morgues and tells the NYT 3000 are dead we should believe them (then multiple that many times over).
This is a critical time in Iran's history. The mainstream media has a responsibility to cover it. And they have a responsibility to get it right.

[Alison Battisson @AlisonBattisson]

If we silence voices we don’t agree with, we’re doing the work of extremists for them | Peter Greste https://t.co/kiVxziZZD9

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Shocked by reports of violence & excessive use of force by the Iranian authorities against protesters resulting in deaths & injuries in recent days.

The rights to freedom of expression, association & peaceful assembly must be fully respected & protected.

I urge the Iranian authorities to exercise maximum restraint & refrain from unnecessary or disproportionate use of force.

I also urge steps that enable access to information in the country, including restoring communications.

[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong]

Australia, Canada & the EU condemn the killing of protesters, the use of violence, arbitrary arrests and intimidation tactics by the Iranian regime. We commend the bravery of the Iranian people and call on Iran to end the use of excessive and lethal force. https://t.co/S2bQrTaxDc

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

The situation in Iran has now gone into unprecedented territory.

As a Bahá’í myself. the memories of parents of Bahá’í friends & family being taken away, shot and dumped into a ditch, are still vivid. Just for having beliefs that were different from the ruling radical Islamic clerics in charge. Regime officials charging families of the dead exorbitant amounts to release the bodies - with invoices that included money charged for the bullets used to kill their loved ones - was par for the course.

The regime is now doing the same to their own citizens - of all backgrounds and beliefs. They do this every time the people rise up. That’s how power is maintained.

When you hear “this time it’s different” you may ask what has happened to the people of Iran where they feel they have nothing to lose now? What has happened that they feel that it’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees?

The answer to that question is why I don’t see any let up in the people taking the streets in Iran for the 14th night in a row. Despite what the BBC article below is (we think correctly) reporting.

“BBC Persian has verified that 70 bodies were brought to Poursina Hospital in Rasht city on Friday night. The morgue there was at full capacity, so the bodies were taken away. The authorities asked the relatives of the dead for 7 billion rials (£5,222; $7,000) to release them for burial, a hospital source said.”
#IranianRevolution2026
https://t.co/FRZANF4u3a

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

More news direct from Soheila Hejab in prison:
The prosecutor of Karaj and the supervising judge of Kachui prison came to inspect the female prisoners. They told Soheila, someone who has been in and out of prison since 2018 for her anti-regime activism, that this time they will be sentencing her to death, and that they are waiting to see her corpse.