Amnesty Ely City

Ely City branch of Amnesty International. Active, imaginative, friendly, #SeriouslyAnnoying campaigners for #HumanRights. Come & join us! #IStandWithUkraine

[Amnesty Ely City @amnestyelycity]

From today's Irish Times - 'The Lie' by Mary O'Malley, courtesy of Irish Centre for Poetry Studies
https://t.co/zoeXVsSa4x

[Amnesty Ely City @amnestyelycity]

PETITION: Palantir, a US company whose technology is being used by the Israeli military to commit genocide in Gaza & by ICE to surveil migrants in the US, has a £330 million contract to deliver a new data platform to our NHS. We want them out of the NHS https://t.co/bjPAm5jeJa

[Amnesty Ely City @amnestyelycity]

About 2.4 million Afghan girls remain barred from secondary education five years into Taliban rule, a grave violation of their fundamental rights.
https://t.co/nSJDyBdbvf

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

i cannot believe the gratitude palestinians show for the smallest amount of solidarity. we all have failed them.

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

Footballers during the World Cup had hydration breaks every 25 minutes. Meanwhile, firefighters are working in scorching temperatures for hours at a time.

We need 5,000 more firefighters, backed up by access to proper welfare and PPE.

[Amnesty Ely City @amnestyelycity]

Measles cases in the US reached a 35-year high in 2026 as vaccination rates dropped. Well done, Trump and Kennedy https://t.co/k7p33n8pY7
Image: https://t.co/QklpXZ43ew

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Before her execution, she recorded a message for her mother:

"I want the world to know what is being done to me."

Reyhaneh Jabbari was 19 when a former intelligence officer tried to sexually assault her. She fought back. He died. She spent seven years in Evin Prison. The world signed petitions. Iran sharpened the rope. She was 26. Iran hanged her anyway.
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Under Sharia law in Iran, to prove rape, a woman must produce four male witnesses to the act itself.

Four. Male. Witnesses.

If she cannot, her accusation becomes a confession. She is no longer the victim. She is the criminal and faces flogging. Or prison. Or death.

This is not ancient history. This is the law that is still on the books today. The law that Abdul El-Sayed is asking Americans not to fear.

Women in Iran don't have a #MeToo movement. They have a noose.

[The Costs of War Project @CostsOfWar]

The U.S. post-9/11 wars have forcibly displaced at least 38 million people. This exceeds those displaced by every war since the start of the 20th century, except for World War II. [1/3]

[ZZ Santa Chevy Cruze™️ #SmokeFleet🟦 @Danphillipsresi]

How can billionaires be so clueless?

[Amnesty Ely City @amnestyelycity]

Rumi by Joseph Fasano. Be a witness...
https://t.co/uNm1FihW1K

[Roger Ward rogward.bsky.social🌹🔄 @RogWard]

No-one who understands what has happened at the BBC over the last few years will be in the slightest bit surprised that they did not air the award of this BAFTA. The BBC has completely lost all credibility as an unbiased news resource. It's an owned political mouthpiece.

[Karima Bennoune @karimabennoune]

A thread of events to mark the 5th anniversary of the #Taliban takeover of #Afghanistan, and of Afghan women's heroic resistance, on Aug 15

Let's all attend as many of these events as possible to show our solidarity

Please add events in the replies.

[Amnesty Ely City @amnestyelycity]

One of life's truly beautiful people, Sunny Jacobs - and what a privilege to have had her and Peter Pringle as our Lecturers in 2013
https://t.co/oPQt7ljXLz

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

It is very simple: do not behave like Nazis if you don't want to be called Nazis.

[David Williams @MrDaveyWilliams]

A British citizen in their 20s heads over to #Israel, takes part in killing children and other civilians. Comes back and nothing is done.

An elderly lady says that she is opposed to this activity and the police arrest her as a terrorist.

Is this some sort of Kafka novel?

[Together @Togetherdec]

ONE LOGIN: "This will be worse than Horizon scandal"
@DavidDavisMP

"The entire population's data will be open to malevolent actors, foreign nations, ransomware criminals, hackers, their enemies... (One Login is) scandalously insecure"

One Login is steadily bringing more personal information into one place and has expanded across 200+ government services already - while grave security concerns persist @NAOorguk

[Amnesty Ely City @amnestyelycity]

Modern-day body snatchers https://t.co/hpmKJHDkRB

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

When ICE murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, they stripped him of all his IDs and personal possessions before shipping him to the hospital. When they murdered a man in front of his 3 year old daughter this morning, they dragged his lifeless body out of the car and handcuffed him.

Every candidate should be running on a platform of arresting and prosecuting this roving gang of murderers masquerading as a federal agency, and tearing the entire rotten enterprise down to the studs.

Fuck ICE.

[John Perkins @jperkinsauthor]

Trump wants to make Venezuela the 51st state.

Now, Venezuela is sending much of its oil income, its petrodollars, through U.S. Treasury-run accounts. Shades of the deal I struck with Saudi Arabia in the 70s.

Another horrific example of "Make America Corrupt Again":

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Where is your condemnation of this, @giles_fraser? Where is your solidarity with your brothers and sisters in Christ enduring daily violence from people who want to drive them from the land they have lived in for 2,000 years?

[AmnestyCanada @AmnestyNow]

It’s well known that Canadian companies violate the rights or abuse the rights of Indigenous peoples in their overseas operations. Yet we still don’t have the political will to put in place accountability mechanisms or human rights due diligence.
https://t.co/Aln9e0zaub