Amanda Barnes

Consultant specialising in communicating about aid, international development and the Global South.

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

I've #justsponsored Simon Wels, who's fundraising for Refugee Action on @JustGiving. Donate now https://t.co/pWgnKktvWQ

[AIUK North Africa Team @AIUKCCNAT]

July 3rd marks ten years of President Al Sisi's @AlsisiOfficial rule over #Egypt and the country's human rights record remains dire.
British/Egyptian citizen #AlaaAbdelfattah is a human rights and pro-democracy activist who has been imprisoned for most of that time.
#FreeAlaa

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

@nbarrett100 Five years flies by, especially in the process of gaining an economics degree 😉

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

Is Government policy the only topic on which #GaryLineker isn't allowed to express an opinion? Or do the #BBC #impartiality rules apply to his opinions on football matches, musical performances, weather conditions or anything else he thinks is "beyond awful"?

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

@nbarrett100 I’m in

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

I just subscribed to Digressions https://t.co/4E0I6dULOs

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

@probreeze1 And it's truly well deserved! I received a ProBreeze milk frother as a gift. It soon broke down and six weeks after I complained I've yet to receive a replacement or refund.

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

The @RFU must not allow an arms fair at Twickenham Stadium.

#IAV2023 is due to be attended by companies whose weapons are used by Israel in attacks on Palestinians.

Write to the RFU below:

https://t.co/T1SS9vHjr6

#StopTwickenhamArmsFair

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

We're hosting this #FreeAlaa event in #Penge South London next week.

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

Alaa is a British citizen wrongfully imprisoned in Egypt who's been on hungerstrike for 200+days & water strike since 6th Nov. He is being held incommunicado & his life is in danger. Write to your MP to urge @RishiSunak to urgently intervene to #FreeAlaa: https://t.co/QUSLFx7UXo

[Sofian Philip Naceur @SofianNaceur]

Newly build prisons in #Egypt are now praised in disturbing promo videos and dubbed as "rehabilitation centers" by authorities

Yet dire detention conditions, medical neglect and systematic abuse practices remain, and surveillance turned into a panopticon #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

Happy Birthday Alaa. Your friends in London wish you could be with your family again. We want our government to tell us how they are fighting for your freedom instead of parroting the same old platitudes. #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

@Laura_Kramer I tip at least a fiver.

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

On Friday Alaa will spend another birthday in prison. A decade of birthdays behind bars simply for speaking out against injustice.

This year send him solidarity & wishes. Write a message for Alaa and post a picture online with #Wish4Alaa

We won't give up!
#FreeAlaa
#SaveAlaa

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

It’s deeply concerning that @Alaa’s lawyer was not allowed to visit him today despite a new visitation permit from the public prosecutor. What’s going on? We urgently need consular access for this British Citizen + Proof of Life.This is a nightmare for his family #SaveAlaa #COP27

[philip rizk @tabulagaza]

the world is watching the Egyptian authorities, but also the UK and other Western government complicit in the crime against #FreeAlaa.
His sister @sana2 speaking now @ #COP27

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

Britain is being fobbed off by Egypt. They can unlock the door to Alaa’s prison cell today. #FreeAlaa

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

We are very concerned to see UK Prime Minister @RishiSunak fleeing from a reporter who repeatedly asks about the status of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his hunger strike.
#SaveAlaa #FreeAlaa #COP27

[Amanda Barnes @AmandaCBarnes]

British government is being fobbed off by Egypt. @rishisunak CAN unlock the door to Alaa’s prison cell. #freealaa

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

according to the @ft, the uk now has the worst access to healthcare in europe
(and shocker: it’s worse than america’s too)