Naveed Gazdar

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.

https://t.co/KvwjbIsMDX

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️⭕️🚨 A historic kiss from the Brazilian president on the head of the Colombian president after his statement at the United Nations..
" The President of Colombia described Israelis as Nazis and called for the formation of an international army from Asian countries to liberate Palestine, and ordered that no ship carrying weapons to Israel be allowed to pass".

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Are you…and I mean this nicely…on crack?

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Nazi Germany 2.0

This is how women are treated in Germany for speaking out against Israel.

[☠️EMA إيما @ghost_girl2023]

💔💔

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️🇬🇷BREAKING:

The Greek navy has arrived to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla in Greek waters.

[North @northcooker]

From GAZA

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

🚨 BREAKING: Israeli Cycling Team Banned
from the Italian Race in Bologna

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨Harrowing scenes from Gaza today as the Israeli military continues its relentless attacks, demolishing Palestinian homes to force residents to flee south.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Israel brought their own crowd to the UN to clap for their war criminal 🤣 everything about them is fake

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

THIS IS GENOClDE

THIS IS TERRORlSM

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

SHOW ME ONE STARVING ISRAELI BABY.

YOU CANT. YOU CANT EVEN LOOK AT THIS STARVING PALESTINIAN BABY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT EVEN HUMAN.

MAKE THIS VIDEO VIRAL. EVERYONE REPOST IT.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

As I say Humanity Flotilla is literally the biggest threat Israel encountered in last 75 years

Here why, excellently made video

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

ARREST NETANYAHU OR SHUT DOWN THE UN‼️

Thank you guys❤️‍🔥
Solidarity is our strength✊🏼🇵🇸
Your voice is being heard across the Globe.

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

Amercan activists in Washington get arrested for protesting against Israel's war crimes and Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations.

[Sam Husseini 4 MD-04 - Peace means affordability @samhusseini]

Israel is committing genocide and has a nuclear weapons arsenal.

So the UN just put sanctions on…Iran, which isn’t committing genocide and has no nuclear weapons.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Love or hate Israel, as an American you should find this deeply insulting

You're sending billions of dollars a year to a foreign leader who openly brags about his plan to influence politics in your country

You are paying him to violate American sovereignty

[Isabella Moody @IsabellaIsMoody]

Your wife is a genocidal whore.