On Tuesday, September 9, Legal Director Baher Azmy will be arguing with co-counsel in Richmond, Virginia before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Al Shimari v. CACI.

U.S. Becomes First Country To Recognize Mega-Israel

A mentally ill man died of hypothermia after two weeks in "drunk cell". The responsible private prison health provider staff have now been indicted.

Hvad ved vi om tortur af ukrainske krigsfanger i Rusland, og hvordan dokumenteres torturen? @dignitydk.bsky.social 's overlæge, @jensmodvig.bsky.social, gæstede i går P1 Orientering for at tale om det og samarbejdet med vores partnere i Ukraine. Lyt med: dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-or... #dkaid #dkmedier

❗️ "Strong reasons to believe that these individuals lost their lives in retaliation for exercising their civil and political rights" UN experts warn of a system of repression, ill-treatment & medical denial in #Belarus. Ending impunity is key to saving lives. 🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The United States is reporting the highest number of measles cases in 33 years. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.

Maybe it is time to find some other software

The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

Think about it: 1400 days in a Belarusian prison without having committed a crime! #FreeViasna #Dignity

🗣️ A regime that treats expressions of solidarity with #politicalprisoners as a crime cannot endure, says Viasna human rights activist Pavel Sapelko. Yet in its bid to survive, it is likely to claim even more victims in #Belarus. Full context here: spring96.org/en/news/118013 #FreeThemAll

Think about it: 1400 days in a Belarusian prison without having committed a crime! #FreeViasna #Dignity

Back in Geneva to fundraise for the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture #UNVFVT

Vred Zelenskyj efter nyt, stort angreb: Russerne angriber, mens vi putter vores børn

The report shows that some of the most generous givers have secured roles in the Trump administration.

“Harsh prison conditions, government corruption, and restrictions on participation… will no longer be highlighted.” 🚨 This is not streamlining. It’s silencing. 🤐💔 #HumanRights 🔗 www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

Police contact of any kind is not innocuous: most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12...

Unbelievable! US opts out of condemning the RF Sumy attack on civilians

Last night, every Senate Democrat voted for my amendment calling for a $17 an hour federal minimum wage while every Republican but 1 opposed it. The movement to raise the minimum wage to a living wage is growing. In 2025, a job must lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.

#Censorship Banning books from the US Naval Academy is an #Orwellian manipulation of the minds of future military leaders. A modern day equivalent of Nazi #BookBurning of the 1930’s in their quest for Fascist domination. @aclu.org @knightcolumbia.org www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

"Become a member while literacy is still legal"

"Texas, where I am currently incarcerated, was dubbed the “prison-rape capital of the world” by Newsweek. And it’s not just Texas;" "... women were abused by prison staff in at least 19 of the 29 federal facilities that held women!" @kwanetaharris.bsky.social

Nobel Peace prize? I don't think so

Serious concerns about detentions in #Turkiye of opposition leaders including @ekrem_imamoglu and more than 100 others. Human Rights Foundation Turkiye @insanhaklari appeals for international solidarity. Terrorism and corruption accusations not very credible

Der er lang vej mod retfærdighed i #Ukraine. Men når våbenhvilen indtræffer, skal DK & EU fortsætte og udvide kampen mod krigsforbrydelser og støtte til overleverne, skriver @rasmusgrue.bsky.social & @jensmodvig.bsky.social i @politiken.dk: politiken.dk/debat/debati... #dkaid

Taking stock of MAGA

All of the 174 States parties to the UN Convention against #Torture are obliged to prosecute or extradite perpetrators of torture on their territory, also Italy. Otherwise, they should be held #accountable during their next examination by the Committee against Torture @philipgrant40.bsky.social

The UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture #UNVFVT has issued an emergency grants call for #Syria for direct support to victims of #torture www.ohchr.org/en/about-us/...

Med den tiltrængte våbenhvile i Gaza er der en aftale om udveksling af palæstinensiske fanger & israelske gidsler. Hvad ved vi om, hvad de har været udsat for? Hvordan hjælpes de bedst videre? Det talte Dignity's overlæge @jensmodvig.bsky.social om i P1 i morges: www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-mo...

Spændende analyse af civilsamfundets rolle i dansk udviklingsbistand og hvor rollen kan styrkes og effektiviseres @globalnyt.dk @dignity-int.bsky.social

Grateful to present the work of the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture #UNVFVT at the first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances. CSO key to support relatives and keep demanding the truth #CEDI @DIGNITY_INT

Suspending funding for #UNRWA is not justified according to the independent review

Last class with my great students in the "Health and Human Rights" elective course at Dept of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Thank you for your commitment and hard work! It was a privilege.

DIGNITY’s @jensmodvig.bsky.social har talt med @tv2nyheder.bsky.social's podcast Dato om kampen mod tortur og at være ekspertvidne i den historiske retsag i USA, hvor 3 tidligere fanger fik tilkendt erstatsning fra sikkerhedsfirmaet CACI pga tortur 📻 @podimo.bsky.social: podimo.com/dk/shows/dat...

⚡️ Lithuanian athlete Kornelija Dūdaitė was disqualified from the Functional Fitness World Championship in Hungary for wearing a shirt reading “Make Russia small again.” Her act was a protest against Russian athletes competing under a neutral status, despite displaying their country’s symbols. 1/2

#Accountability for international crimes in #Syria is already ongoing, including in the USA. Still, the new Syrian government should ratify the #Romestatute and give #ICC jurisdiction to investigate & prosecute crimes committed from 2011. #IIIM can assist. @dignity-int.bsky.social

»Vi har tidligere kaldt Syrien ét stort torturkammer, men Sednaya er blevet et symbol på den allerværste mishandling.« @jensmodvig.bsky.social har talt med @jyllands-posten.dk om tortur i #Sednaya & vigtigheden af, at de ansvarlige bliver dømt for forbrydelserne: jyllands-posten.dk/internationa...

#Syria A peaceful transition to a stable #democracy would benefit #justice and #accountability for the hundreds of thousands of Syrians subjected to #torture #extrajudicialkillings and #enforceddisappearences including their relatives @cnn.com @dignity-int.bsky.social

#Egypt 🇪🇬 Today, president Al-Sisi starts his official visit to #Denmark. Denmark has been spearheading the global fight against #torture at the UN for decades. The Danish govt must address Egypt’s widespread and systematic torture, says DIGNITY's legal director Therese Rytter. #dkpol

#Belarus should let themselves inspire by #Iran (in this respect only!) and release #Nobel peace laureate Ales Bialiatski and all other #politicalprisoners #Viasna @dignity-int.bsky.social @theguardian.com

"... the official Ukrainian figure of 114 men who have been subjected to sexual violence since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 is likely an underestimate" www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...

"The legislation proposes allowing mentally competent adults with a terminal diagnosis and less than six months to live to seek medical assistance to end their lives". I doubt that medical doctors are willing to take on this task. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Training of curageous #Ukrainian human rights defenders in documenting #torture and #sexualviolence #kharkivhumanrightsprotectiongroup @dignity-int.bsky.social @khpg.bsky.social

Very interesting analysis by Prof Oona A. Hathaway of the recent Abu Ghraib torture verdict www.justsecurity.org/104983/abu-g...

Interviewed while abroad by Danish TV2 news about the significance of the Abu Ghraib verdict and what torture does to people

Seems like todays armed conflicts are all about destroying civilians and civilian infrastructure. High time with a convention against crimes against humanity odessa-journal.com/russian-forc...

If States parties to the Rome statute and ICC, in particular the West, seriously want to defend a rule-of-law based world order, they must not hesitate in supporting and abiding by ICC decisions, including arrest warrants

Just left digital publisher Zetland after giving an interview about my expert testimony in the landmark court decision on Abu Ghraib torture, where the military subcontractor CACI was court ordered to pay 42 million USD to three persons subjected to brutal humiliating torture

The 53-year-old Natalia Manylo has been sent to compulsory psychiatric "treatment" for assisting political prisoners. Psychiatric "treatment" was a method of suppressing dissent in the USSR. Revival of #USSR politicized #psychatric "treatment" in #Belarus? #Viasna

42 mio $ in damages to three persons subjected to torture in Abu Ghraib www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...