Despite missing records, fading memories & witnesses who had died, the Springhill/Westrock inquest found that British soldiers shot dead 5 people in Northern Ireland in 1972 without justification. @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social write about finding the truth 54 years later.
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Activists helping migrants and refugees at the Poland-Belarus border are still targeted with prosecutions, home searches and threats, while funding and public attention fade. Our @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social write in @justsecurity.org.
Those who help migrants and asylum seekers at Poland's border face prosecutions, interrogation and home searches from Polish authorities, write @humanrightsfirst.org's @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social.
In August, @dooleydooley.bsky.social & I met activists helping migrants & refugees at the Poland-Belarus border. They face prosecution, searches, abuse & threats amid funding cuts. Our @humanrightsfirst.org report details the pressures & calls for support from donors & the international community.
"Working alongside local lawyers & human rights activists over many years, sometimes decades, we have been able to help them win important victories, even in these difficult times."
Read @dooleydooley.bsky.social & @suchitauppal.bsky.social's latest blog post.
1/2 Where is Bahraini Prince Nasser? He has withdrawn from competing in a horse racing event in Sweden today. We @humanrightsfirst.org submitted a dossier of evidence to the Swedish police this week about his alleged involvement in torture.
“Torturers should be held accountable whoever they are." Today, we submitted a dossier of information to the Swedish police urging them to investigate Bahrain's Prince Nasser, due to be in Sweden this weekend. He is accused of torturing people in 2011, incl. a Swedish national. Our statement ⬇️
