J Philip

[CNN International @cnni]

In the five years since the chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul and the Taliban's return to power, Afghanistan has become home to one of the world's worst human rights and humanitarian emergencies.

"To be very blunt, it's hell if you're a woman in Afghanistan," John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction told CNN. https://t.co/wwy82Wpmp9

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Zeinab went into the street to protest. To demand freedom. For that, the authority charged her with “Moharebeh”, which means; enmity against God, means execution.

If you ask me how you can help me and help Iranians save her life, to be honest, I don’t have an answer. 💔I don’t have power. All I have is my voice, and the ability to tell their stories.

Because I was once a prisoner myself. And what I feared most was being forgotten, being left alone behind those walls, while the government erased my name and killed me in silence.

That is why I keep telling their stories. So they cannot be erased. So they are not alone.

I'm writing this for everyone in the free world who has ever joined a protest in your country: this is what they do to people like Zeinab Mousavi. They don't just arrest you. They put a death sentence on the act of showing up, in order to create fear and to prevent people from protesting against oppression.

Zeinab Mousavi is in Vakilabad Prison in Madhhad right now, having seizures every night, being denied medical care, while her family waits in terror.

A freed prisoner named Sepideh Qolian tried to tell her story to every major newspaper inside Iran. But every single one refused.

Because Iran's system is built to make people disappear quietly, arrest them, break them, silence the witnesses, and wait for the world to move on.

Execution is no one's right. Not Zeinab's. Not anyone's who ever stepped into a street and said: this is wrong.

[J Philip @jvphilip]

Taliban wipes out decades of progress as 2.4M Afghan girls remain locked out of school, UN agency says https://t.co/O8oZZKdWdD #FoxNews

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Islamic Republic in Iran hangs 24-Year-old woman who defended herself from sexual assault

Yesterday the regime executed Marziyeh Neyri yesterday, a young woman who was forced into marriage at age 17 and hanged for fighting back against her attacker.

Marziyeh was 18 years old when her husband's associate attempted to sexually assault her in her own home, in front of her husband. She grabbed a kitchen knife to defend herself. Her husband died in the struggle.

She told the court she had been repeatedly assaulted by her husband's associates before that day. Iran's courts didn't care.

The regime rejected her self-defense claim. Her attacker, who survived, took the stand and called her a murderer. The court believed him over her.

She was sentenced to death.

No clemency. No mercy. The sentence was carried out at Chubindar Prison in Qazvin.

Marziyeh Neyri never had a chance. Forced into marriage as a child under Iran's Islamic laws, she spent the few years of her adult life in a courtroom, fighting for her life after defending it.

She lost.

This is the Sharia Laws in Islamic Republic of Iran where a woman can be hanged for surviving.
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[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

He will be executed tomorrow he will be hanged. He’s just a child. Please help me to get the leaders to call the Islamic Republic to stop the execution.
My heart broke when I just watched the forced confession of this young boy on Iran’s state TV.
They tell him: “You are Mohareb.”

He asks: “What does that mean?”

He was so young, he didn’t understand that it means one thing in Islamic Republic:
execution

A 17-year-old boy, Shervin Bagherian, was arrested in Iran’s recent protest. Now in the middle of a war they are preparing to execute him.

His only crime was wanting a normal life. There is still time to speak up. Will you stand with me and be his voice before it’s too late?

#StopExecutionsInIran

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

New laws in Afghanistan, introduced by the Taliban, mean that men can now marry girls at any age – there is no limit. Male relatives can arrange this with other men, and it’s only once the girls reach puberty that, in extremely limited circumstances, they can ask a court to dissolve the marriage. What’s happening in that country is horrific, and it begs the question why Amnesty are not putting all of their resources into tackling this latest child abuse atrocity.

[Christian Emergency Alliance @ChristianEmerg1]

Nigeria: Christians were attacked yet again - DURING A CHURCH SERVICE - this time in Eruku, Kwara State.

Armed gunmen – reportedly Fulani Islamists – killed several of the believers and kidnapped many more.

This evil keeps happening over and over – without end.

ENOUGH.

[J Philip @jvphilip]

In Darfur, Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death - The Washington Post https://t.co/N3BoYxlDyw

[J Philip @jvphilip]

People fleeing al-Fashir in Sudan are in a 'disturbing' condition, aid group says - Reuters https://t.co/pHh8i2xeHH

[Open Doors UK @OpenDoorsUK]

Many of you have been praying for Aida Najaflou, who is imprisoned in #Iran and faces multiple charges.

She recently fell from the bunkbed in her cell, fracturing her spine. She went to hospital but was returned to prison the same day – still in pain and without the surgery she urgently needs. https://t.co/xwShXPnQWG

[J Philip @jvphilip]

They ran 25 miles to flee a massacre as their friends were executed around them in Sudan - The Telegraph https://t.co/v14woAUCPl

[J Philip @jvphilip]

Sudan militia, armed with drones, hunts down Black population of Darfur - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/MFpqMNI675

[J Philip @jvphilip]

As Darfur’s last city falls, fears grow “there will be no one left to save” - NPR https://t.co/849Pddfh2V

[J Philip @jvphilip]

Fear of mass killings as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city taken by militia group - BBC News https://t.co/br82uGPvLo

[Open Doors UK @OpenDoorsUK]

Christians in #Mozambique urgently need your prayers as they face increasing violence from Islamist militants.

"Many believers and leaders live with fear, intimidation and emotional exhaustion," says a source in the country.

Read more: https://t.co/9EoBmeu4pR

[J. C. Okechukwu @jcokechukwu]

Folks, heaven is angry ‼️ You can’t listen to this boy’s harrowing story and remain the same. Nigeria is literally the “pit of hell” - the ground zero of ritual human sacrifices. If there’s any word stronger than genocide, that’s what these Nigerian Christians have endured. Imagine! 17 years old and he’s lived 11 out of those 17 years in an IDP camp in Nigeria, which neither @AlJazeeraWorld nor @APNews nor @BBCWorld nor @CNN ever reported on. And the Nigerian government is only just now seeking help from the United Nations over IDPs, because of the global outcry and pressure from Washington. What a shame!

Courtesy: @MikeArnoldTruth

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

The internet shutdown in Afghanistan happened in real time in my online poetry class on Monday. The women's accounts dropped out one by one. The last to go was Neda. Just before her image froze, I promised to put her poem on Twitter. She's 11. Online was her last hope of education. @WRNAfghanistan

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Christians are being massacred, and their women kidnapped, raped, and forcibly converted daily in Nigeria.

This year, more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians in Gaza.

And yet, not a single protest for them!

[J Philip @jvphilip]

Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Feels Like a Hinge Point - WSJ https://t.co/iAg7U1rqWo

[J Philip @jvphilip]

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