Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

Lawyer focused on international criminal & human rights law. Founder & director of @SLPJustice. @IHRDC board member. Sign the letter to end gender apartheid👇🏼

[Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا @GissouNia]

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[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Alvin Hellerstein, a senior federal judge in Manhattan overseeing the prosecution of the captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, has died at 92. https://t.co/9RFYI0l6Rj

[NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security @ngowgwps]

Powerful last words from @TamanaParyaniP to the #UNSC: “We are the resistance to repression...and we will not stop until we win justice and equality for all women.”

Read her statement here: https://t.co/5HwlmIJYUj

[OIC at UN @OICatUN]

Amb. Hameed Opeloyeru, PO received members of the Afghanistan Accountability Collective in his office yesterday, 27 October 2026 within the context of OIC engagement with civil society organisations on women empowerment, peace and security.

[Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik @akravik79]

Norway is deeply concerned about the human rights situation in Iran. We call on Iran to cease the use of & impose a moratoriumon on executions. Najmeh Amini’s death sentence should be overturned. Amirsalar Davoudi must be released. https://t.co/GHG1nNpJbg
https://t.co/GHG1nNpJbg

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate, returned to Venezuela on Sunday after more than 10 months abroad — a homecoming that could test the Trump administration’s control over the country.

Read more: https://t.co/CAXi6YUAcc

[Joyce Karam @Joyce_Karam]

- World: it’s time for a woman, preferably from Latin America, to be next UNSG
- Trump administration: How about Victor Orbán?

[CNN @CNN]

After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned home.

"I am here. With you," Machado announced on X Sunday morning shortly before other members of the opposition confirmed her arrival without providing details. https://t.co/vKUcy5uiRo

[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

EN VENEZUELA!
JUNTOS!
POR LA LIBERTAD!

[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

Aquí…

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[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

¡Viva Venezuela!

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[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

Estoy aquí. Con ustedes

[Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا @GissouNia]

Not to mention all the statements straight from the mouths of Islamic Republic authorities themselves. They’re not exactly pretending… they’ve been fine to admit they committed a massacre.

[Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا @GissouNia]

This is a wild piece of disinfo given all the video and first hand witness accounts we have of Islamic Republic controlled forces gunning protesters down…

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Up to 40% of the Iranians killed in the crackdown may have died at the hands of foreign agents, using the same playbook the CIA ran in Iran in 1953.

Death toll estimates have swung from 75,000 to 42,000, and Larry Wilkerson puts the real number closer to 10,000 to 12,000, pointing to Mossadegh’s overthrow and Chile under Allende as proof of how these operations work:

“At least 40% of the people who were killed were killed by our agents in Iran trying to do the same thing.”

If any of that holds up, the case for regime change gets a lot harder to sell.

[Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا @GissouNia]

To have one man exert this much influence over our elections simply cause he is the richest man in the world is… well…

Not really the stuff of a flourishing democracy given how online influence campaigns work these days.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history.

Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. https://t.co/8vEBOJHTKR

[Abigail Hauslohner @ahauslohner]

Amb. Waltz is very upset by this headline. He claims that I "fabricated" it. I appreciate that the ambassador took the time to talk to me, but it's unclear what he thinks was fabricated, given that his team also has a copy of the recording...
Me: "How long do you think it'll take to get Iran to capitulate under this status quo pressure?"
Waltz: “Well, we'll see. The president and the U.S. Navy can maintain this blockade for the foreseeable future, the maximum pressure campaign is only tightening. The regime, which controls 40 to 50% of the Iranian economy, continues to, to, to suffer under the pressure. So again, our pursuit, our, you know, our pursuit of a diplomatic solution is bolstered and backed by both economic and military, if necessary–that’s the president’s decision–pressure."
Me: “Do you think it could–this could still be largely the status quo a year from now?”
Waltz: “Uh, I’m not going to put out hypotheticals. One would hope that they'll come to the table in a, in a meaningful way before that.”
Me: “But if they don’t, we will be?”
Waltz: “Well, again, that’s, these are decisions for the president: how long he wants to sustain the blockade, how long he wants to pursue a diplomatic track with a mix of economic, diplomatic, and military pressure. Those are, those are the decisions and the tough decisions and the hard truths that the American people elected him to follow and to do.”

[Article18 @articleeighteen]

The 5th episode of the #Article18Podcast is here, featuring the @UN's Special Rapporteur on the Situation of #HumanRights in the #IslamicRepublic of #Iran, @drmaisato.

📽️ https://t.co/vfV0zUbjut

#Article18 #FoRBForAll #Place2Worship #StPeters #JosephShahbazian #MohammadNikbakht #LidaAlexani #Tehran

[Int'l Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt]

🎥The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas visited the #ICC. #BuildingSupport @kajakallas @EU_Commission

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

If Jared Kushner sues Matthew Cole and his publisher for defamation over the new book about him, the discovery process would get very interesting. Kushner's bank statements, money transfers, correspondence would all be subject to disclosure and he'd have to sit for a deposition

[Diaryofadreamywriter @Briellefine]

Please do not ask a bookworm if they are going to finish the books they have before buying more. It is very offensive in our culture.

[Harun Najafizada 🇦🇫 @HNajafizada]

Afghanistan International’s @maryam_rahmati wins the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize at the prestigious 2026 UNCA Awards for her extensive coverage of the situation of AFG women. Maryam has reported on the UN, Iran, international affairs, and AFG for over 4 years from New York.