Ironic Facts

#Justice & #FreedomofSpeech but based on facts. Low tolerance for #hypocrisy.

[Forbidden Stories @FbdnStories]

At Forbidden Stories, we ensure that investigations in the public interest don’t die with those who report them. If a journalist is threatened, imprisoned, or assassinated, our network of 300 reporters and 110 news organizations steps in to continue their work.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The lavish 4-month-long wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani, son of Asia's richest man, and his bride Radhika Merchant, daughter of billionaire business tycoons, fuelled criticism from campaigners.

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@TheTimesofMalta Always two sides to the story.

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@bugdavem Why publish photos of the magistrate when you claim that the judiciary is being targeted?

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The UK government has revoked the student visa of Dana Abuqamar, a Palestinian law student and leader of the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, following her speech in a university demonstration. Abuqamar said that her visa was revoked on the grounds of 'national security', with authorities citing her as a risk to public safety.

Abuqamar revealed that she had lost at least 15 relatives in Gaza when the Israeli army bombed a three-storey building in the besieged enclave.

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@maltatoday Admirable employer! Kudos for bailing out trusted employee ❤️

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@TheTimesofMalta Free or paid advertising for Henley?

[Christoph Schwaiger @cschwaigermt]

The story that's doing the rounds on social media this morning - a brief look at Michelle's Muscat's expenses at the Marigold Foundation

https://t.co/FI75IC8eyn

[Times of Malta @TheTimesofMalta]

Migrants should be given the welcome and dignity they deserve https://t.co/yEyg8f5RHT

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

When mainstream media and #investigativejournalists betray their vocation like this, they undermine the good work of #ethicaljournalists globally #fakenews #ethicsinjournalism

[Legal-Malta.com @maltalaw]

French Media Watchdog slams National TV M6 & Enquete Exclusif for unethical journalism having fabricated #Citizenship claims viz #Maltese #lawyers #ChetcutiCauchi. Appeal Court convicted M6 LdF for criminal #defamation, awarded fines, moral damages https://t.co/XjNmpvuKUa

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

Editors often tell journalists not to become part of the story they’re covering.

But the Palestinian reporters in Gaza have no choice.

And if death is their fate, there’s only one desire: for it to be swift, instantaneous.

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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

We asked 10 people in Gaza to record moments of their day. What they sent us was inspiring and heartbreaking. The most mundane of tasks has become impossibly hard and the fear of being killed is constant and palpable.

Watch our latest #AJCloseUp episode, 'One Day in Gaza' ⤵️

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Watch the moment Palestinian woman Israa Jaabis returns home and embraces her son after being imprisoned in Israel for eight years ⤵️

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@IMCouncil Two years on, investigation into IMC member still ongoing? Way too much evidence to go through right? #ironicfacts

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@OCCRP published documentation showing #HenleyPartners advised against #IMDB #Low applying for a #MaltaPassport - if anything, because he wouldn't have passed Malta's due diligence.

[Justin Borg-Barthet @JustinBBarthet]

Henley & Partners and their apologists argue that citizenship by investment is characterised by the utmost due diligence.

One scholar/consultant goes so far as to say that CBI emancipates States from the evils of "blood and soil nationalism".

The reality is quite different:

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

#OCCRP-published invoices by #HenleyandPartners Cyprus and #HP Hong Kong for quote "Services Provided to Jack Jho Low" shows #Henley and Partners handled #Low's #CyprusCitizenship application through a Cypriot subcontractor and charged €60,000 for it. @IMCouncil

[Paul Caruana Galizia @pcaruanagalizia]

“Caruana Galizia’s style is articulate, well-turned and, at times, somewhat poetic. His message is direct and makes us face the truth about our country. A book seriously worth reading” - ⁦@TheTimesofMalta⁩ Vicki Ann Cremona review of A Death in Malta https://t.co/B44UELDcco

[The Shift News @TheShiftNews]

Meanwhile, in Malta, there remains little discourse at the national level about how the law and its amendments impact Malta’s media landscape or how its obligations would be implemented.

https://t.co/RdOl5IK1qD

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@AlxMalta When you mentioned flashy cars and villas, I kind of smelt another kind of grudge. Any unfulfilled goals in life maybe?

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@BertRidesAgain @Chetcuti_Cauchi I am no less against the sale of passports but morally I draw a line when, failing to get at law-makers who created this, people with their own vested interests and agendas pillory just one of many private lawyers.

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@BertRidesAgain @Chetcuti_Cauchi If you don’t see it, you need help. You’ve lost your objectivity and moral high ground.

[Ironic Facts @FactsIronic]

@AlxMalta Even when a foreign court rules he actually didn’t “flout his connections”? Why single out a private lawyer when even politically active lawyers across the political divide also act as agents for Maltese citizenship? What’s your agenda?