Mental Health & Law

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[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

In the Gulag archipelago, Soltzhenitskyn describes a network of prison camps where people were abused and denied their human rights, with the full acquiescence of the State.

Little did he realize how the gulag extends into the archipelago of mental health centres in the West.

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

And this Archipelago crisscrossed and patterned that other country within which was located, like a gigantic patchwork, cutting into its cities, hovering over its streets. Yet there were many who did not guess at its presence and many, many others who had heard something vague

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, schooled on UN rules. "No personal attacks allowed." Extraordinary footage show how deep is the contempt for the Israeli government.
https://t.co/7EJkcWWtTc

[Real Media @RealMediaGB]

Despite sending four Palestine Action activists away to prison last week with sentences totalling 32 years, Mr Justice Johnson is still hounding their lead barrister Mr Menon, who was summoned to the High Court this morning to face a new application for Contempt of Court. Rajiv Menon KC won an appeal last month that quashed earlier contempt proceedings on procedural grounds.

The allegations arise from a powerful defence speech he made in the first Filton 6 trial in January which was first exclusively published by Real Media. Read at https://t.co/0EkpOQiiwe

Today, Judge Johnson brought the matter back to the court and heard new submissions from Tom Little KC, Counsel for the CPS and from Adrian Waterman KC acting for Mr Menon. The defence argued that the CPS had no standing in the case according to Criminal Procedure rules, other than if the court or the Attorney General had appointed them as an ‘advocate’ to guide the court. In this instance, they were there in a prosecutorial role and had no jurisdiction to do so.

Mr Waterman pointed out there was no evidence that Judge Johnson had actually instigated contempt proceedings during the Filton trial, and instead had invited the Crown to do so.

Mr Justice Johnson reserved judgment and said his decision will be delivered "as soon as possible".

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

“restrictions on pro-Palestinian speech and protest, when justified by invocations of Jewish safety, will backfire and weaken social cohesion and potentially increase antisemitism”.

https://t.co/gVSwmzXJoD

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Protest Is Not Terrorism report that, while the infamous Judge Johnson was imposing draconian sentences on the the Filton 4 after refusing to allow them or their lawyers to explain their motives to the jurors (and then adding a ‘terrorist connection’ of which the jury were also unaware when they convicted), activists in three other cases, who *were* allowed to explain, escaped conviction:

‘Direct actionists walk free from court in Aylesbury, Canterbury and Birmingham
It’s clear that the Filton 4 Palestine Actionists were convicted because Judge Johnson prevented Rajiv Menon and the rest of their defence team from making any effective defence at all, and in particular he prevented them from telling the jury about their reasons for taking direct action against Elbit Systems.
‘On 21 May, the Grid 2 (Audrey Corno and Jessica Stacey) were acquitted at Aylesbury Crown Court of criminal damage during a rooftop occupation of GriD Defence Systems premises near High Wycombe. As Audrey Corno explained on Instagram, they were acquitted because the judge “We argued that the damage was necessary in order to prevent war crimes. It's a very, very simple case, which is why the jury came back with the correct verdict after only 20 minutes of deliberation.”
‘On 11 June the Discovery 5 (who sprayed red paint over the Instro Precision site in Sandwich) were acquitted at Canterbury Crown Court. As one of the defendants (Dziej Smith) explained, “We were able to take the stand and talk without restriction about our reasons and our strongly held beliefs based on fact. We could not only say the word ‘genocide’ we could talk of the destruction and devastation manufactured on our doorstep. We could directly link Elbit systems to the IDF.” As a result, “12 members of the jury heard our evidence and unanimously delivered a ‘not guilty’ verdict
‘On 18 June, the jury in the trial of the Moog 4 refused to convict them of criminal damage after they occupied the roof of an arms factory in Wolverhampton. Again the jury’s decision followed a trial in which the defendants were allowed, by the judge, to explain their intentions. “We believed the longer we stayed up there,” said one of the defendants (Iain Evans), “the more lives we would save.”’

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

@Rehiana1980 Didn't we already know that the BSB is captured? Historically our legal institutions were the first.

[John Stealer @JohnStealer]

The following @UKLabour govt ministers are LFI members

Rachel Reeves

Yvette Cooper

Jonathan Reynolds

Peter Kyle

Pat McFadden

Sharon Hodgson

Damien Egan

Mike Tapp

Jo White

Chris Evans

Dame Diana Johnson

Conor McGinn

All Israeli assets, all complicit in genocide.

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

@RichMillett @thetimes Majority of Jewish Israelis have supported their government's policies and actions. They have given explicit support to ethnic cleansing in Gaza/Lebanon. Parris is correct, large numbers of British people are ill at ease with a nation where mass atrocities have been normalised.

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

@nicolelampert Will you condemn Israel Katz?
https://t.co/G5J1nPgThg

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | "We have flattened the entire first line of villages in southern Lebanon, all the houses have been destroyed. The residents will never see them standing ever again."

In a stark acknowledgment of systemic ethnic cleansing, Israeli War Minister Israel Katz boasted on Friday that the Israeli military has completely obliterated the entire first tier of Lebanese border villages.

Framing the mass destruction as a permanent "security zone", Katz explicitly declared that the 200,000 displaced Lebanese residents "are not returning."

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Dr Jane Hawdon suspended Dr @NadimHCr just 63 minutes after an anonymous complaint over his social media posts on the genocide in Gaza.

Hawdon is the same doctor known for her Lucy Letby review. She also personally filed a complaint against me to the GMC.

When Hawdon suspended Nadeem in August 2024, she provided no specific details of the complaint. No evidence.

She sent him home mid-shift and did not even tell him why.

Nadeem was left in uncertainty overnight— he was so worried he might have harmed a patient.

Hawdon then ambushed him in a meeting and pressured him: delete your posts or face a full investigation.

Nadeem is suing the Royal Free Trust and suing Hawdon personally for discrimination and harassment.

She took the stand today in his employment tribunal. She seemed worried, as though she never expected to be held responsible for her disgraceful behaviour.

Hawdon treated Nadeem as guilty until proven innocent. Not because of clinical issues or patient harm. But because of his words expressing outrage over 'israel's' terrorism and the mass murder of Palestinians.

Nadeem is a Christian Jordanian who has borne witness to the Palestinian struggle his entire life.

Hawdon had no right to stop him caring for the British public because of his righteous and moral views.

She had no right to cause him that level of harm and force him to delete his posts just to keep his job and livelihood.

Genocide apologists working as doctors in Britain must be exposed so the British public can make informed decisions regarding their care.

Eternal shame on Jane Hawdon.

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

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[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

Rich, Greenberg and English donkeys
/a thread

Miss Barbara Rich has defended Judge Joanna Greenberg KC.
So let’s look at Greenberg’s record.

https://t.co/Ok4xva35QJ

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

“Palestine Action is not, as it claims, a direct-action civil disobedience protest group like the Suffragettes operating transparently in the open.” Chief Donkey Lady Carr.

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

Rich, Greenberg and English donkeys
/a thread

Miss Barbara Rich has defended Judge Joanna Greenberg KC.
So let’s look at Greenberg’s record.

https://t.co/Ok4xva35QJ

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

The donkeys of the English judiciary

"The English fight like lions."
"But don't we know that they are lions led by donkeys."
Alan Clark, The Donkeys, 1961

[Mental Health & Law @WeCareAboutMH]

@LevEyal111 @punished_pebble @Rehiana1980 Go to a disputed war zone instead. Debatable.