Good overview from @apnews.com on ongoing clashes in Serbia. Dozens arrested, many injured and police struggling to contain violence from pro-govt groups. apnews.com/article/serb...

Large anti-govt protests are underway in more than 30 cities and towns across Serbia. This is Novi Sad, where clashes broke out after pro-govt groups threw pyrotechnics at peaceful protesters:

We are currently seeing human rights research being questioned and attacked around the world. This is why we’d like to take you behind the scenes of how we come to our conclusions.

Hungary's government is being accused of handing more than €1,000,000,000 in unlawful subsidies as advertising revenue to pro-Orbán newspapers, television stations and online platforms in 2015-2023, two media outlets claim in a state aid complaint lodged with the European Commission.

The Trump admin dismantled key efforts to hold Russia accountable for war crimes in Ukraine—pulling out of an EU-led group, downsizing DOJ’s war crimes team, ending asset seizures, and leaving a legally mandated coordinator post vacant. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Hungarian government has amended the country's constitution (again) to suit its narrow political purposes, this time to justify attacks on LGBT people and threaten its critics with the power to suspend Hungarian citizenship for dual nationals. EU action is needed. www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

Israeli PR guru Srulik Einhorn worked to burnish the image of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and facilitate the flow of Serbian arms to Israel. Now wanted for questioning in Israel, he has set up shop in Belgrade. balkaninsight.com/2025/04/16/b...

It sometimes seems telling lies is easier than ever — partly true. But: Exposing lies is also possible in previously unthinkable ways. A remarkable BBC Verify report on the paramedic killings and cover-ups that followed

Some thoughts on the student protests in Serbia ⬇️

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has inflicted widespread sexual violence on women and girls throughout Sudan’s war. The RSF’s atrocities, including rape, gang-rape and sexual slavery, amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, @amnesty.org new report. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

This is an excellent thread of even better investigation into the human rights record of Frontex leadership 👇

New compelling database by SHARE Lab with more than 3000 testimonies and other visual evidence documenting the effects of the use of sound cannon during Belgrade protests last month. zvuk.labs.rs

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

“Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of Gaza into an enclosed and possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed, and buildings throughout the rest of the enclave would likely be razed to the ground.“ www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

Anyone who thinks Israeli forces have been upholding the principle of distinction—differentiating between civilians, medics, journalists, humanitarian workers, and combatants in Gaza—should read this story. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

They „would like to see “millions of AI pilots”, so the US and its allies are ready for the future of war.“

Sometimes I think Serbia can’t surprise me, but here we go. Apparently Russian FSB is in Belgrade this week to determine if sonic weapon was used against peaceful protesters on March 15. beta.rs/content/2222...

Inside Russia's shadow war in the Baltic Sea - a series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

New day, new spyware in Serbia. @amnesty.org uncovers a new case of misuse of a Cellebrite product to break into the phone of a youth activist in Serbia. And more evidence that the government continues their campaign of surveillance of civil society. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

Passionate about business and human rights? Join Amnesty International and collaborate with partners and communities at the forefront of the energy transition, addressing its impact on human rights. #EnergyTransition #JustEnergyTransition #DRC #DRCongo www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Guess who loves a good old “smart city” with cameras and face recognition at every corner? Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions www.bbc.com/news/article...

My latest @amnesty.org research documents a rise in Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinian shepherds in grazing areas surrounding Shi’b Al-Butum. They face an imminent threat of forced displacement. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

NEW: Cellebrite halts product use in Serbia, reinforcing @amnesty.org findings that Serbian police and intelligence routinely misused Cellebrite’s digital forensic equipment outside legally sanctioned processes to target civil society and independent media. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

German elections saw the highest turnout since reunification in 1990s - 84% of voters cast a ballot. And half of them voted for conservative and far-right parties. Scary times ahead. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The Netherlands is set to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria - the largest repatriation of the looted antiquities to date. UK still holds around 900 artefacts - stolen during the British attack on Benin City in 1897. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Between 2023 and 2024, the value of Serbian arms sales to Israel increased 30 times - from 1.4 million euros to 42.3 million. The „collaboration“ goes both ways - Serbia sells 155mm and shells, and imports drones and surveillance softwares. balkaninsight.com/2025/01/28/r...

Berlin crowds, I am doing a workshop at this year’s Transmediale on how to use open source tools to document police violence. We will be using case studies from Germany, Iran, USA, Sri Lanka et al. No prior knowledge of OSINT needed. Registration here 👇 transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

Since 2018, carbon emissions from data centers in the US have tripled. One key shift in AI right now means that the field’s emissions are soon likely to skyrocket.

I was today years old when I learned of “bicycle blitzkrieg” - Japanese WW2 tactics to use bicycle infantry to move quickly through the jungle of South Asia.

🚨We're hiring for a short term consultancy!🚨 Amnesty Tech are looking for a consultant to work on Competition Law and Human Rights Policy Research - with a focus on Big Tech. More details here: careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories. After months of claims of 'shadow banning' we looked at the data and found news pages from Palestinian territories had a 77% drop in engagement compared to a 37% rise in Israeli news pages. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After some EU counties paused asylum applications from Syrian nationals, Bulgaria now seems to be pressuring Syrians into accepting ‘voluntary return’ to their home country. balkaninsight.com/2024/12/17/p...

New research from @hrw.org identifies a mass grave and a summary execution site in Tadamon area of Damascus. Residents say executions in the area were common, with at least 10 other incidents of summary killings between 2012 and 2014 in surrounding areas. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

New @amnesty.org investigation reveals Serbian police is using phone spyware to unlawfully target journalists & activists. Our report details how Serbian spyware NoviSpy & Israeli forensic products Cellebrite are extracting data from mobile devices. More here 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Too soon and potentially very harmful. Until further notice, Germany puts on hold all asylum applications of Syrian nationals. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

IIIM urges Syrians to preserve high-value information and evidence of government repression - images, videos, documents from govt buildings, detention centres, army barracks. iiim.un.org/statement-fr...

The IDF warns its soldiers who fought in Gaza not to travel abroad, after discovering about 30 cases of criminal proceedings being initiated against Israeli army members for war crimes. Israel also apparently set up a team to assist them in case of proceedings. www.ynetnews.com/article/rjxb...

People in Gaza are starving - & this is all deliberate. As well as attacking aid workers, aid convoys, community kitchens, the Israeli military's activities have destroyed the local food production and distribution system - 83% of Gaza's plant life has been destroyed. reliefweb.int/report/occup...

In a historic move, Belgium has been convicted of crimes against humanity for acts committed during colonization which must signal as a turning point for European States, said African Futures Lab and @amnesty today. www.afalab.org/news/2024-12...

Very thoughtful and nuanced discussion on genocide and Gaza with professor Schabas in Spiegel- now available in English. „We cannot peer into a state’s head to determine its intent. We must also look at its behavior, the policy a state pursues. It’s actions. „ www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Revenues from sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached $632 billion in 2023, a real-terms increase of 4.2 per cent compared with 2022, according to new data released today by SIPRI. www.sipri.org/visualizatio...

"Private Businesses & Armed Conflict" explains the why, when & how of international humanitarian law (IHL) for private business. Newly published by the ICRC together with Australian Red Cross and French Red Cross. Download here!: shop.icrc.org/private-busi...

Today the faith in the integrity of the International Criminal Court and its judges, and the idea of international justice has been strengthened. Regardless of how long it takes for Netanyahu & Gallant to appear before the judges, no one can now claim in good faith the ICC is useless or corrupt.

US continues to violate international norms. Now Biden administration approves sending antipersonnel mines to Ukraine, despite the harms this weapon can cause to civilians. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Looks like USA increased its drone surveillance in the last three months over Gaza, West Bank and Jordan. New data suggests Global Hawk flew at least 20 times over the region from September to November. dronewars.net/2024/11/19/u...

Amnesty's campaigners, researchers, advocates, and law and policy experts are making the move to Bluesky. Here are some of them. Please share and let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/7L1j1TF

New from @amnesty on arms embargo violations in #Darfur 👉Galix System, French-manufactured military technology incorporated into armoured personnel carriers made by the UAE, is being used on the battlefield in #Sudan. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Breaking the ice of the first post here - with the appropriate #bluesky photo.

„Krieg und Strafjustiz“: Freue mich auf das Gespräch in der Schaubühne Berlin mit @emcke.bsky.social und @marijaristic.bsky.social am Sonntag um 12 Uhr. Ausverkauft, aber im Livestream verfügbar, de/en. @ecchr.bsky.social www.schaubuehne.de/de/produktio...