Just so that we are clear, Israel drops criminal charges on five Israeli soldiers who were caught on camera sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. But Israel will keep kids in prison for decades because they were throwing rocks? Make it make sense 🤦🏽♀️
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee. https://t.co/bGpXfGwEev
They gang-raped a Palestinian so brutally he was hospitalised. They did it on camera. When footage leaked, and the rapists were arrested, Israelis rioted to protect them. They said they had the right to rape. The Israeli lawyer who leaked the footage was arrested. This is Israel.
This is appalling. The Home Office rejected appeal from foreign secretary Yvette Cooper that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world’s most dangerous countries from changes to UK’s immigration system.
Shabana Mahmood turned down proposals from Foreign Office to maintain carve-out for Chevening scholars, a government-funded programme for “exceptional individuals” to study for a master’s degree at a UK university.
https://t.co/2U6g600SNY
(1/4) Asylum crackdown leaves scholarship hopefuls from war-torn Sudan in limbo
I spoke to 15 Sudanese students caught up in the policy
Many had secured fully funded scholarships and offers from top UK universities
More below 👇
https://t.co/lRBszKqUoN
Nearly three years into Sudan’s devastating war, the country had been placed on a list of four nations whose citizens would be banned from obtaining visas to study in the UK.
"We were hoping to get support on this via education abroad, so we are very disappointed" - Ibrahim Dafallah, Sudanese student
https://t.co/ytnRDdpq8T
Sudanese students accepted to British universities say visa ban could shatter their plans to study abroad and help rebuild their war-torn countries
https://t.co/KkUC8MOijW
For @MiddleEastEye , I spoke to Ibrahim Dafallah and Abeer Abdoun, two Sudanese students with offers to study master’s degrees at the University of Oxford who are now barred from attending based on their nationality.
Read the full piece:
https://t.co/iGacPpJB1a
The absurdity is staggering. When Shabana Mahmood was asked why this policy wasn’t applied to Pakistan, despite more than 10,600 people entering legally and later claiming asylum, she said she wouldn’t give a “running commentary” on discussions with other countries.
Yet Sudan, where only about 120 students applied for asylum, is punished.
Did you even discuss this with Sudan? Or is this just selective politics disguised as immigration control?
Just 120 Sudanese students who arrived through legal student visas applied for asylum.
Yet you've effectively punished Sudan, a country facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis, one driven in no small part by regional and international power politics (including the actions of your own allies)
SHAME ON YOU