#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

"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...

"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...

#FreeAhmedMansoor #UAE

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.

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...

#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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 1 month 7 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

X has informed me that my account has been blocked in the UAE. Long story short it's cos I'm too handsome

I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo

We’re proud to be joining organisations, communities and individuals across the UK in celebrating and inspiring A Million Acts of Hope. Find out more and get involved: millionactsofhope.org #MillionActsOfHope @1mactsofhope.bsky.social

Why does a nation that aspires to be the happiest not only wealthiest in the world #UAE facilitate torture and abuse in #prisons? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8lY... #FreeAhmed

#HaveCourage and call on the rulers of #UAE to free all their prisoners of concience! Human rights have to be integral to any notion of progress #FreeAhmed @amnestyfrance.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @schweiz.amnesty.ch

We are now also on @bsky.app campaigning for the release of Ahmed Mansoor. Please join us and support the campaign to #FreeAhmed #UAE

Peaceful human rights defender #AhmedMansoor was arrested 9 years ago. Today is also #Eid-al-Fitr, #UAE #MBZ pardon the #UAE84 prisoners for this celebration

Pain in UK's prisons.Listen to #UAE prisoner of conscience #AhmedMansoor "Whoever wants to know whether a country is truly based on humanitarian principles or not should look at how it treats its prisoners" #HaveCourage #Prisonersrights #criminaljustice @friendsofahmed.bsky.social shorturl.at/F8GGt

2/2 especially as peaceful negotiation has not yet been fully explored. Our concern for the civilian victims of this war also extends to the prisoners of conscience in #UAE, whose unconditional release would be a welcome humanitarian step at this difficult moment.

1/2 We observe with deep sorrow the continuing aggression affecting Iranian and Lebanese civilians, as well as the widening reach of the war impacting civilians in the Gulf countries. This trigger-happy conflict should not have occurred and should not be continuing,

‘We live in this paradox, and it has a deep contradiction. You’re creating big cities, creating great images for the young Arab people, creating an environment that they’d love to live in – but you don’t want to give them freedom.’ 
– #AhmedMansoor #UAE