Matt Laidlaw

Active Revolutionary socialist

[KHRC @thekhrc]

#PressStatement
As of November 7, 2025, at least 3,000 people have been murdered by Tanzanian security forces, with thousands of people still missing. Amidst the ongoing attempted cover-up, facilitated by the continued internet blackout and bandwidth restrictions, this number could be thousands below the actual death toll. Many bore head and chest gunshot wounds, leaving no doubt these were targeted killings, not crowd-control actions.

See evidence here (warning: it contains graphic images and videos): https://t.co/bw65fkA2Cq

Also, comprehensive visual documentation of the 2025 Tanzania massacre is available to verified researchers, journalists, human rights organizations, and legal professionals. Photographs and video evidence documenting the violence and human rights violations are available through https://t.co/3mpI8QmtBZ

[Victorian Socialists @vic_socialists]

We're proud to announce that long-time socialist and community activist Sue Munro will be our candidate for the upcoming Werribee by-election. We'll be launching our campaign with a gathering for local VS members and volunteers in the coming weeks. 🧵

[Samer Daboul @samerdaboul6]

Today, the body of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada was found. He was tortured in 2012 before his release and departure from Syria. Mazen disappeared in 2020 after being coerced by the Syrian regime’s embassy in Berlin to return to Syria.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

When Syrians talk about Sednaya being a concentration camp, these are the things they're referring to.

#Syria

[Victorian Socialists @vic_socialists]

Solidarity with the heroic Syrian people who after more than a decade of struggle have finally rid themselves of the hated Assad dictatorship. It’s not clear what will come next, but with Assad gone Syrians may finally have a chance to decide the future for themselves. ✊🌹

[Rami Jarrah @RamiJarrah]

THIS IS HISTORIC:

"The city of Tartous has been liberated, we are here with our people from all sects, Christians, Alawites, Sunnis, Druze and Ismailis, the Syrian people are 1, to our people in Tartous, work with us to build our country, we will present a model to be proud of".

[Yassin Al Haj Saleh @Yassinhs]

يا رزان، يا سمور، يا مي، يا فدوى... الأبد خلص!
يا ريتكن معانا!

[Leila Al-Shami @LeilaShami]

As we celebrate, remember all those who are not with us today ... those who paid the ultimate price in the struggle for a Free Syria. May their souls now rest in peace.
My heart is with every family who will be anxiously waiting for news of their loved ones in detention.

[Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @FARED_ALHOR]

A Syrian man detained since 1998 in Assad's prisons, is now free

[World Without Prisons 🇵🇸 @withoutprisons]

Families of prisoners in Idlib gather at HTS-run prison demanding freedom of their loves ones too,

prison security guards throw stones & eggs at them from prison rooftop, injuring a child,

All prisoners across Syria must be free!
Free them all!
Abolish all prisons!

[Wladimir van Wilgenburg @vvanwilgenburg]

Kurds destroy Assad statue in Qamishlo

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pilot Ragheed Ahmed Al-Tatari, who refused to bomb Hama in the 1980s, has been released today after being arrested at the age of 27.

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

So touching:

“I have been in prison for 10 years. What happened?”

“The regime fell”

And his laugh!

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

The Syrian revolution

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

Crazy:

One of the political prisoners of notorious Sednaya prison says his execution was half a day away

[Matt Laidlaw @matt_theRed]

@richimedhurst This is a funny way of saying you can look past a democratic revolution being drowned in bloodshed and the repression driving half of the population in the country to displacement.

[Dilly Hussain @DillyHussain88]

Slaughtered 600,00 Syrians.

Displaced 12 million Syrians.

Forced 5 million to leave Syria.

Bombed Syria to rubble.

Refused reforms and killed protestors.

Ran an oppressive narco police state.

Sham “elections” like other tyrants.

Sold Syria to Russia and Iran.

The end.

[Leila Al-Shami @LeilaShami]

A friend messaged that Syrian state TV is now playing Swan Lake on repeat

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

#Syria: the first groups of prisoners is leaving the cells of the Sednaya prison following the collapse of the #Assad regime.

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

Hafez Assad statue is down in Homs