#UAE: #AhmedMansoor defender of #FreedomofSpeech, spent 9 years 4 months 15 days in in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Why is #UAE government afraid of Mansoor??? #HaveCourage #FreeAhmedMansoor

CiLuna @ciluna27.bsky.social · yesterday

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 4 months 15 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

BREAKING: ​The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.

Freedom of opinion and expression is a fundamental human right. Let’s defend it everywhere, for everyone. Sign the petition: amn.st/63320BEAxOY #HumanRights

#FreeAhmedMansoor #HaveCourage

CiLuna @ciluna27.bsky.social · 3d ago

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 4 months 13 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

despite its digital repression practice #UAE was sold #spyware ... Emirati poet and human rights defender #AhmedMansoor was one of many civic voices who was targeted en.edacrights.com/post/881

Human Rights Watch: Bulgaria Exported Surveillance Technology to the UAE Despite Its Rights Record

تقارير وتحليلات حول أوضاع معتقلي الإمارات والانتهاكات الحقوقية.

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#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 28 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 29 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 26 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

Picture this: In the #UAE all citizens who discussed peacefully human rights or reforms are currently imprisoned or in exile #FreeAhmedMansoor

CiLuna @ciluna27.bsky.social · 4w ago

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 18 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

"The fairly obvious comparison is that ...AI is slowly supplanting our ability to think independently and critically, in many cases feeding us dopamine as we celebrate the technologies that may be responsible for the decline of our ability to act independently" www.gulf-times.com/article/7267...

Is AI stealing our souls? The ethical questions behind Gulf’s AI boom

In Abu Dhabi, crews are pouring concrete for a five-gigawatt AI campus, the largest outside the United States. Saudi Arabia’s national champion, HUMAIN, is...

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"She said the fall of North Darfur’s regional capital El Fasher to the RSF had been followed by a “calculated campaign of the most profound suffering,” particularly targeting non-Arab communities' news.un.org/en/story/202...

Sudan: Atrocities ‘repeated town by town’, ICC prosecutor tells UN Security Council

Atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region are spreading from town to town in an organized campaign of violence that includes mass executions, rape and ethnic targeting, amounting to war crimes and crimes ag...

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#FreeAhmedMansoor #UAE

CiLuna @ciluna27.bsky.social · 4w ago

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 17 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

For much of Prince Weeks’s teenage years, he didn’t know whether he’d have a proper meal each day or where he’d sleep at night. After years of financial instability and uncertainty, Weeks recently delivered a valedictorian speech to his graduating class.

This teen was once homeless. He just delivered his class valedictorian speech.

“Everyone here has greatness inside of them waiting to be unleashed,” Prince Allen Weeks told his fellow graduates in New York.

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EU sanctions were supposed to shut down Russia’s bulletproof hosting network. Instead, it moved next door. Proud & happy to share this story. Huge thanks to @huibmodderkolk.bsky.social & every source who contributed, on or off the record. Lots more to say soon! www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/h...

How a consultant and a concert pianist from the Netherlands aided pro-Russian hackers

In the international information war, few methods are off-limits. Pro-Russian cybercriminals carry out attacks to sow fear and disrupt Western societies. De Volkskrant investigated how Dutch companies...

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#UAE human rights defender #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 16 days in prison. Also arrested in #UAE are 375 (!) people in crack down on #FreedomOfSpeech @chrishaughton.bsky.social

CiLuna @ciluna27.bsky.social · last mo.

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 16 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

Please be today the voice of #AhmedMansoor. He was arrested 8 years ago. He was then sentenced to 10 years in prison for his human rights activism. Last year he was sentenced to an additional 15 years in prison. A few days ago this sentence was upheld. Be his voice #FreeAhmed

Read @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social's new report documenting how transnational repression (TNR) across the MENA region is being used to target human rights defenders (HRDs), journalists, writers, academics and others⬇️ www.gc4hr.org/pursued-beyo...

Pursued Beyond Borders: Patterns of Transnational Repression Linked to States in the Middle East and North Africa - Gulf Centre for Human Rights

Executive Summary This report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) documents how transnational repression linked to States in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) restricts and endangers the ...

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50 MEPs already agree with us and have supported our complaint to FIFA. You can join us by adding your name at rebootfifa.com. #eu #politics

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Renowned football writer @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social did not mince his words when talking about FIFA at our European Parliament event this week. #football #soccer #worldcup

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 12 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 13 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 14 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

Every single human rights defender in #UAE is incarcerated, dystopian sci-fi became present. #FreeAhmedMansoor @amnestyfrance.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social

CiLuna @ciluna27.bsky.social · last mo.

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 3 months 14 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

ROYA shows us a world where daily life has become equal with prison and prison has become equal with torture. This is Teheran today, says film director Mahnaz Mohammadi

Manu Luksch@manuluksch.com · 2mo ago

In the Q&A the film director shared how her film integrates the tiny allowances by some of the prison guards that would enable her to survive imprisonment in Iran. Go and watch tonight!

UN's Nelson Mandela Rules strictly prohibit indefinite and prolonged solitary confinement (more than 15 consecutive days), categorizing it as torture. #FreeAhmedMansoor @unhrc.bsky.social

CiLuna @ciluna27.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 2 months 18 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

#UAE’s share of global arms imports used to be3.5%, now it is indigenising defence production www.economist.com/business/202...

A new defence champion is rising from the Gulf

The region’s rulers want to reduce their dependence on Western arms

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ROYA screening in #London tonight, a film written and directed by Mahnaz Mohammedi based on her own experience of #imprisonment in #Iran as consequence of her feminist engagement. A powerful story realised by a remarkable team. sxswlondon.com/session/roya...

“As the country becomes less attractive to foreign investors and workers, Emirati officials and executives may seek out more extractive economic arrangements in places where the UAE has the leverage to drive a hard bargain, particularly in Africa.” - ✍️ @andrewleber.bsky.social

Can the UAE Go It Alone?

A risky quest for strategic autonomy in a war-torn Middle East.

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#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 1 month 16 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years in prison. Please join me & urge #UAE to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 1 month 5 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years in prison. Please join me & urge #UAE to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor