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💥🇷🇺 NEW INVESTIGATION: Under the banner of human rights work, a state-backed Russian organization has spent years advancing the Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda across the world — including by funding the legal defense of alleged spies, criminals, and propagandists. @occrp.org #dearcompatriots

Russian Foundation, Aimed at Helping ‘Compatriots’ Abroad, Supports Spies, Criminals, and Propagandists

For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by journalists show how it collaborated with spies, funded propaganda efforts, and bui...

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The war in #Sudan has profoundly impacted its environment but these consequences have received little attention. Our new overview details key incidents and trends that pose risks to Sudan’s people and ecosystems. ceobs.org/the-environm... 🧵⬇️1/7 #السودان

The environmental costs of the war in Sudan - CEOBS

CEOBS has been helping UNEP monitor the environmental consequences of the war in Sudan since 2023, here's what we have found.

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Russia has returned the body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna. Her body showed clear signs of torture: broken ribs, bruises, injuries from electric shocks. Some of her internal organs, including her eyeballs, brain and trachea, had been removed. Viktoria was 27 years old.

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead

A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

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Deportation. The word you're looking for is deportation. I get this is all new to you, but the violence at borders is exactly that: violence. Always has been There are no "good" or "just" ways for masked men to snatch someone off the street and banish them on precarious evidence

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · last yr.

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government **posted their home address** to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.

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