Johanne Rannoojee

Political Literacy advocate from 🇲🇺| Chagossian | Human Rights | TheAfrindian |

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Do you support Israel's 'right to exist'?"

It's a 'gotcha' queston and I debunk all the BS surrounding the 'right to exist' propaganda right here:

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

The Freedom flotilla was attacked during the night. The ship was rammed, boarded and the 12 volunteers kidnapped. This is more reprehensible behaviour from the genocidal regime in Tel Aviv.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

The BBC is literally using the exact same photo that @Israel has used to denigrate and infantilize the courageous @GazaFFlotilla #Madleen crew, who engaged in direct action to break—and draw international attention to—Israel's inhuman siege of Gaza.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

By forcibly intercepting and blocking the Madleen, Israel has once again ignored its legal obligations towards civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip. The crew were unarmed activists and human rights defenders on a humanitarian mission.

They must be released immediately and unconditionally. They must also be protected from torture and other ill-treatment.

As the occupying power Israel has an international obligation to ensure civilians in Gaza have sufficient and safe access to food, medicine, and other supplies indispensable to their survival. Instead, and as part of its calculated effort to inflict on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life designed to bring about their physical destruction, it has consistently and deliberately impeded the provision of impartial humanitarian assistance for civilians in desperate need.

During its voyage over the past few days the Madleen’s mission emerged as a powerful symbol of solidarity with besieged, starved and suffering Palestinians amid persistent international inaction. However, this very mission is also an indictment of the international community’s failure to put an end to Israel’s inhumane blockade. Activists would not have needed to risk their lives had Israel’s allies translated their rhetoric into forceful action to allow aid into Gaza.

States must act now or risk complicity in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinians’ rights.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel has killed at least 17,400 children in its war on Gaza. Here are the most common names of Gaza’s lost children, listed alphabetically from A to Z.

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

Can someone please explain to me how a country bound by the UN Charter is allowed to do this without any repercussions?!

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

This is the moment an Israeli air attack hit suburbs in Beirut, Lebanon, just as a civilian plane was preparing to take off from the capital's airport.

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

There's nothing more left to say.

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

Are you able to apply the same principles to Netanyahu's war machine too?

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Today I am announcing the largest package of UK sanctions against Putin's war machine in over a year.

This government will confront the Kremlin's corrosive foreign policy and smash the illicit networks it relies on.

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

Will we see a remake of the historical protest of Aug 2020? We do not know yet. What we do know, though, is that the Mauritian people are angry and that this unprecedented shutdown on democracy likely will have an impact on the outcome of the upcoming elections.

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

Updates from an eventful day in #Mauritius following the unprecedented social media shutdown imposed by Govt. 🚫

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

Opposition supporters are calling the general public to join a legal opp political gathering in protest of the ban on 3 Nov, but some have expressed concerns that govt supporters will attempt to disrupt the event, to trigger a state of emergency.

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

Questions are now being raised not only as to the constitutionality of this govt decision, but also as to how free and fair the 10 November Elections will be.

@AJEnglish @BBCWorld @timesofindia @hrw @TransparencyMa1 @anticorruption

[Johanne Rannoojee @JRannoojee]

🚨 Many young (and not so young) Mauritians are outraged by the social media ban imposed by the Mauritian govt. People have turned to VPNs to regain access to social media but our voices are still being shut down and our access to information limited drastically.

[Guillaume Gouges @guillaumegouges]

Didier Sam-Fat, the president of the National Cybersecurity Committee, has resigned from his position this morning, November 1st. His decision comes amid rising tensions surrounding cybersecurity and public safety. #Mauritius #CyberSecurity

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

There is no social unrest in #Mauritius, no riot, no fights among people due to the general elections. Despite this, the government through the ICT Authority instructed all ISPs to block all social media platforms in the country until the general elections are over. @accessnow