patrick walder

Campaign Coordinator @Amnesty_Schweiz @Amnesty_Suisse

[swissinfo.ch @swissinfo_en]

The Swiss financial sector invests billions in global fossil fuel projects that generate up to 18 times more emissions than Switzerland alone. A new people’s initiative demands tougher environmental rules around investing, what does the data show? https://t.co/kpfihGo2QP

[Claude Longchamp @claudelongchamp]

Nach Recherche von Blick: Plagiat-Eklat! «NZZ» kündigt «Nebelspalter»-Journalist

https://t.co/ejLHp6Cg4g

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Not in line with Israel’s values and norms?

That’s not true. Let´s stick to the facts.

While the hundreds of Global Sumud Flotilla activists unlawfully detained by Israel are en route back to their countries, Palestinian prisoners will have to continue to endure unspeakable abuse.

Israel has a long history of incarcerating Palestinians without charge or trial. Its systematic use of administrative detention – detaining Palestinians without charge or trial - is a cornerstone of Israel’s system of #apartheid. Torture and other ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners have been a cruel reality for decades and only increased in the last 3 years. Over 9,000 Palestinian men, women, and children are currently held in Israel’s prisons. More than a 1,000 are from Gaza and subjected to enforced disappearance or held incommunicado in military facilities and denied access to lawyers or contact with their families.

Amnesty International and other human rights groups have continuously documented a pattern of Israeli authorities inflicting torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment against Palestinians, including through the denial of medicine, food, clothing and sleep, continuous beating, cuffing and blindfolding, dog attacks, rape and other sexual violence, among other abuses. In yet another display of double standards, third states have remained unmoved to the repeated calls to act to bring an end to Israel’s abuses against Palestinians in custody. This must end.

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Many thanks to @FranceskAlbs for detailing below some 20 sources spanning over many years and providing ample evidence of Israel’s systemic torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, against Palestinian prisoners. The @nytimes article by @NickKristof is just the latest of many, many, many well-documented reports and testimonies that most governments chose to ignore, silence or bury.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Bertolt Brecht predicted it in 1942: American fascism would be democratic in the American fashion.

He was right. That's precisely what makes it so hard to stop. https://t.co/KHdJXFl1Wa

[Reuters @Reuters]

Amnesty International warned that the global human rights system is nearing a breaking point and cited double standards by powerful states and weakened multilateral institutions

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

It’s outrageous that a tiny number of absolutely revolting trash human beings can impose this upon tens of millions of people.

[Alex Vatanka @AlexVatanka]

US and Israel bombed at "least 763 schools and 316 health care facilities" in Iran

I struggle to understand why so many civilian targets were hit. If the stated goal is to “free” the Iranian people, this is not how you do it. This is how you lose them

https://t.co/4x96shOgW5

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I don't know that words will ever be able to adequately express how insane it feels to sit at a desk and respond to trivial emails while the President of the United States threatens to destroy an entire civilization.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

This is a moment of extreme danger for civilians in Iran and the wider region.

For President Trump to threaten that 'a whole civilisation will die tonight' echoes genocidal language.

The UK government must urgently end military support to the US that could enable crimes under international law, including war crimes.

Amnesty International is unequivocal: threatening to systematically destroy civilian infrastructure is a threat to commit war crimes.

Attacking power plants essential to the survival of tens of millions of civilians would be unlawful.

The UK must act now.

Read on: https://t.co/eksGRKBiYi

[Kristyan Benedict @Kristyan_B_]

Amnesty UK calls on Keir Starmer to pull US base access as Trump threatens to kill ‘a whole civilisation’
https://t.co/dNMhoWa1gJ

[Rashad Alhindi @RashadAlhindi]

Das sind die Freiheit und die Demokratie, die Trump und Netanyahu der Iranischen Bevölkerung bringen wollen.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen seems to have slept through her classes on the Nuremberg tribunals, which dealt with the Nazi legacy.

Nuremberg defined a war of aggression – of the kind committed by the US and Israel in attacking Iran – as the “supreme international crime” because "it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".

In other words, parties like the US and Israel that commit the crime of aggression are responsible for everything that flows from their crime – and that includes Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz.

It is not Iran’s actions "putting global economic stability at risk". It is the criminal endeavours of the US and Israel.

The Nuremberg judges understood that this cause and effect had to be understood correctly, otherwise the logic of the Nazis would take hold again.

It is deeply disturbing that the lessons of Nuremberg are so utterly lost on von der Leyen and Starmer.

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

Empires have fallen before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one jump off a cliff.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Help is on the way”

[Shoura Hashemi @ShouraHashemi]

Von „Help is on the way“ zu „Back to the Stone Age“ in weniger als 3 Monaten.

Ein PR-Geschenk an die iranische Führung und eine weitere Diskreditierung der vernünftigen iranischen Opposition. (Nicht die rechtsextremen Clowns, die hierzulande auf der Straße tanzen.)

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The West's current crime spree in the Middle East:

A genocidal campaign of carpet-bombing and starvation in Gaza.

A war of aggression on Iran wrecking the global economy.

The ethnic cleansing of South Lebanon.

It's so overwhelming it's impossible to absorb the scale of it.

[Bardi @BardiTEI]

Proud of Italy for boycotting Russia, Qatar and the USA.