Hannah Somerville

Editor @IranWireEnglish | Formerly @Archant investigations unit and @OxfordMail | Klawchi-in-chief @BanipalMagazine

[Noa Hoffman @hoffman_noa]

The UK Lobby work so hard every single day to make sure you the public get the information you deserve to know. It is the honour of a life time to be part of the British press. They are the best of the best

[Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks]

It's great that the British are discovering how difficult it is to get rid of British rule

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Breaking: European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg grants rule 39 request to stop the flight to Rwanda from leaving. Basis: real risk of inhuman and degrading treatment (Art. 3 ECHR). Please share - government must comply.

[IranWire @IranWireEnglish]

Not one but two ex-officers who refused to shoot civilians during #Iran's November 2019 protests are understood to be placed on a #UK Home Office-planned deportation flight to #Rwanda next week.

https://t.co/ibNl5PiljP #truth @MovementforJustice @ShadiSadr @FreedomfromTorture

[Hannah Somerville @hlsomerville]

This ex-police officer testified at huge personal risk to @AbanTribunal in London about state-ordered killing of civilians in Iran. Now on the #Rwanda offshoring list. @pritipatel @FCDOHumanRights who are the others then? @Justice4IranEn @Freefromtorture https://t.co/OLYUn53NDY

[Hannah Somerville @hlsomerville]

@davidmacdougall I've told everyone I know

[Hannah Somerville @hlsomerville]

"As you raised up your hands on that red carpet, you knew that you had won. Others saw that you had won as well. Nobody could see this picture and fail to notice that you had won. You changed the finish line and won." By the great @shimashahrabi

[IranWire @IranWireEnglish]

Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi @Zar_Amir wins the best actress award at Cannes Film Festival for her role in “Holy Spider.”

Read our tribute to an actress who made her own luck: https://t.co/h3lKSzG7pA

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Oh, those devoted Western anti-imperialists on Twitter that openly root for an authoritarian regime very literally waging a brutal colonial war of conquest in the year 2022.
All life is a mystery, indeed.

[Francis Scarr @francis_scarr]

In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV today, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and his country's international isolation. It's fairly long but worth your time so I've added subtitles.

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Worth a thousand words.

[Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز @kshahrooz]

This @IranWireEnglish piece by @hlsomerville & @masoudkazemi81 about kleptocrats hiding in plain sight in Canada is important.

I'm quoted: "...Canada has become the playground of kleptocrats from Iran and other dictatorial countries."
cc: @MLInstitute
https://t.co/3yfW2HPoHo

[Hannah Somerville @hlsomerville]

Aah, another day, another upper ceiling for revulsion breached. I don't tweet a lot but for anyone in London who might see this the demo is tonight at the Home Office.

[Media Diversified 🇸🇩 🇵🇸 @WritersofColour]

The UK is to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, Boris Johnson has announced.

Offshoring has already failed miserably with Australia, reports of abuses are rife.

Join the demo outside @UKHOMEOFFICE
Thursday from 6pm.
Do not let this stand.
https://t.co/kYgOvOJRuw

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

Left behind by a fleeing Russian convoy in a Ukrainian village: 50 Syrian Pounds

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

When you join the British Museum staff and receive your new uniform:

[Hannah Somerville @hlsomerville]

@lilika49 Good morning Elika, hope you and family are doing well! Aware you might well be on a media break at the moment; I have a couple of (light-hearted) questions about your recent posts if you're up for a quick chat? If so please do add back, thanks and best wishes

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Holding back tears, this Afghan girl begs the Taliban to let her get an education "We want to study, please let us study." Heartbroken Afghan girls have been denied access to their schools. A broken promise by the Taliban who said they could return today #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147]

Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy - we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead

[Hannah Somerville @hlsomerville]

Former @VOANews journalist Kianoosh Sanjari @Sanjaribaf boarded a plane out of his still-beloved Iran on Monday after six years of hell. He sent us this detailed account of what happened: "The Islamic Republic ruined my youth, as it did to millions" https://t.co/eKnSVhDbFC

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

The increasing stupidification of London. Debord was right.