Kai Akram

Press team @AmnestyUK - crisis response lead for Middle East and Russia/Ukraine
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Amnesty International UK has condemned the event as “apartheid and annexation with a sales pitch”

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

An event is planned to be hosted in London proudly promoting the sale of land on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

This is obscene. I've called on @MayorofLondon and @YvetteCooperMP to stop the event and for this govt to take real action on illegal settlements.

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Erasing anything Palestinian: Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank demands global action – new report

https://t.co/1rBQ1gjget

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"The scenes witnessed in Belfast last night were a disgrace" - @PatrickCorrigan, Director of @AmnestyNI on last night's racist violence in Belfast. Full statement here: https://t.co/umlFtXAwd8

[Alex Kane @alexbkane]

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. https://t.co/YoR5WY3bWn

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Dear @ShabanaMahmood,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

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Amnesty urges international action to stop Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

‘Plans to escalate the military operations in Gaza City indicate that indeed the worst is yet to come’ - Agnès Callamard

https://t.co/Ij4QzvjAy5

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Amnesty submitted an FOI request to obtain the FCDO’s 2024 assessment of risk of genocide in Gaza

Officials failed to respond within the statutory one-month deadline

‘The government’s refusal to engage with us on this raises suspicion’ - @KreaseChan

https://t.co/OEiCs6Fkzg

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'Every second matters for Palestinians. As leaders stall with statements about what they might do in a month, children are being slaughtered and entire families erased' - @KreaseChan

https://t.co/Tsq6O6hFcK

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The documentary that the BBC refused to air showing the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities was broadcast by Channel 4 last night.

Amnesty International researcher, Budour Hassan, explains the use of secret sites by the Israeli authorities.

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Amnesty International's global report, Death Sentences and Executions 2024 out tomorrow (8 April)

For info and advance copy of the report: [email protected]

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📢Amnesty Media Awards 2025 finalists and host announced 🎙️

‘It’s an honour to host the Awards... Especially in what will be the final year before journalists are officially designated as enemies of the state - what a send-off!’ – @JolyonRubs

https://t.co/vFEwfOHcvO

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"The UK must immediately suspend all arms transfers to Israel in compliance with its own arms export rules and international obligations.

"No-one should be allowed to commit or facilitate genocide and remain unpunished." - @KreaseChan

https://t.co/NNaCvxOFka

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NEW REPORT out today on Ukrainian POWs

‘They beat me with stun guns, these special sticks, it was very painful. I saw how the guys started to die after that. Their hearts just couldn't take it anymore’ - Volodymyr Shevchenko, former prisoner of war

https://t.co/10hMhWpQef

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NEW REPORT out tomorrow: Ukrainian prisoners of war 'entirely at the mercy' of Russian captors

Family members of POWs available for interviews. For info and advance copy of the report: [email protected]

Photo (c) Patrick Thompson/Amnesty International

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'Any company doing business in Israel’s illegal settlements is enabling a war crime and helping to prop up Israel’s system of apartheid' - @KreaseChan

https://t.co/xFExWCVltI

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UK: Police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with crime predicting tech – new report

‘These systems have been built with discriminatory data and serve only to supercharge racism’ – Sacha Deshmukh

https://t.co/zv3BA3WTfj

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NEW REPORT: Predictive policing tools used by most police forces in the UK are discriminatory

'The evidence that this technology keeps us safe just isn’t there; the evidence that it violates our fundamental rights is clear as day' - Sacha Deshmukh

https://t.co/MHNDwhjvFU

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🏆AMNESTY MEDIA AWARDS 2025 🏆

📢Calling all journalists and members of the Wokerati! 😉
📢ONLY 1 DAY TO GO!

Hurry! Closing date is MIDNIGHT TOMORROW 5 February 2025

Enter here 👉👉 https://t.co/tfjTyLsvL3

Last year’s host was the inimitable comedian and political commentator @MrNishKumar

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🏆AMNESTY MEDIA AWARDS 2025 🏆

📢 2 DAYS left to submit your entries!

Media has the power to shine light on injustice around the world and bring about lasting change.

Enter here 👉👉 https://t.co/RjZtb8F0Zy before 5 February 2025
#AmnestyMediaAwards

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‘Israel must dismantle the brutal system of apartheid it imposes to dominate and oppress Palestinians and end its unlawful occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory once and for all’ - Agnès Callamard

https://t.co/QYKaG2KGCM