Author, journalist & investigator
London, England
Joined September 2012
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My latest story in @Diplomat_APAC about the new deportation law threatening young Burmese refugees in Thailand who have fled forced conscription and becoming part of the military junta's 'one-way troops'
A recently-passed law in Thailand increases the risk that people fleeing repression will be deported and forcibly recruited into the military’s units of “one-way troops.” buff.ly/wuOzeUU
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WATCH: @FortifyRights Senior Director @BenedictRogers addressed the UN Human Rights Council #HRC63 on ongoing atrocities against civilians by the #Myanmar military junta, including atrocities against #Rohingya committed by the junta and the Arakan Army.
He also highlighted the junta’s continued use of indiscriminate airstrikes, including attacks using paramotors and gyrocopters, against civilians across Myanmar and called for accountability.
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.＠esadiya updates me on the official inquiry into the conduct of UK special forces during the war in Afghanistan.
Sky News' own investigation has revealed "daily and routine" killings of unarmed people, according to people who served in Afghanistan.
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#Afghanistan
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"There is a battle on how migration is talked about because the words we use are influenced by the way in which people understand migration, and then who they empathise with, and which policies then they are willing to accept."
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"The growing number of Rohingya seeking safety in Malaysia is the direct consequence of the world’s negligence and inaction."
In @Diplomat_APAC, Lynn Htet from @FortifyRights argues that #Malaysia can no longer treat the #Rohingya crisis as Myanmar's internal affair. As mass atrocities and forced displacement have regional consequences.
Malaysia should move beyond the principle of non-interference to confront the #Myanmar junta, continue protecting Rohingya refugees fleeing atrocities in Myanmar and dire conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and adopt a zero-tolerance approach to hate speech by holding officials accountable for inciting hatred, discrimination, and hostility against refugees.
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.@FortifyRights’s @yaplaysheng speaks to @AlexHowlett2 @Diplomat_APAC about the rise in anti-#Rohingya hate in #Malaysia.
“When influential figures repeat harmful things against refugees, they lend legitimacy to online hate and give the public permission to translate that online hate into offline abuses. And we’ve seen that already with the vigilantes going around, exposing the locations of people’s homes and schools, and sometimes brutalizing them.”
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My new story on how social media is fuelling the dehumanisation of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia for @Diplomat_APAC. Interviewees shared that some rhetoric bears a disturbing resemblance to narratives which justified their mass expulsion from Myanmar in 2017
“For the first time in a long time, Malaysia felt like a place where I could breathe... Since May, that feeling has disappeared. It’s heartbreaking to feel that fear return, after finally believing I had found some peace.” buff.ly/LuQbQbF
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One way of seeing climate change in action is looking at 1200 year continuous data from Japan about cherry tree blossoming.
My first story for @scmplifestyle about the women across Asia redefining the sound of bass music from Mumbai to Manila
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#Myanmar women political prisoners face torture, sexual violence, and other abuses at the hands of the military behind prison walls, reports @AlexHowlett2 @guardian.
"Sexual violence is being used as a tool of intimidation against women from arrest through interrogation and detention in Myanmar," says @sengchit, Senior Human Rights Specialist at @FortifyRights.
"When it comes to women, [the authorities] will use anything to control and punish, to ensure that people are compliant."
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#Myanmar women political prisoners face torture, sexual violence, and other abuses at the hands of the Junta military behind prison walls, reports @AlexHowlett2 @guardian.
#2026Jun15Coup
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#WarCrimesOfJunta
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Latest story for the Guardian about the female activists, journalists and protestors who have endured years of torture and abuse in Myanmar's prisons
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Derided and undermined but what I didn’t say in the moment is that our Palestinian colleagues have also been killed in their hundreds by Israel in Gaza cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-c…
'That is still my lifetime ambition - to get into Gaza at some stage again'
Special correspondent @AlexCrawfordSky says Israel's blanket ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza gives 'journalists and the wider world a huge disservice'
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“Gaza had been celebrating since the news broke, but grief was never far away.”
Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza, writes for @nybooks: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
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"In a sea of silence, abandonment and violence, they offer the rarest thing: someone is still looking for you. […] That your life matters."
Journalist @AlexHowlett2 was onboard the #OceanViking during 2 rescues and the shootings by Libyan Coast Guard.👇
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My story for @service95 on @SOSMedIntl's Ocean Viking. The Libyan 'coast guard' opened fire, risking the lives of 87 survivors and crew.
It was a privilege to see them in action. Truly incredible & resilient people.
#searchandrescue #Mediterranean
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Mariam, killed by Israeli strike today, had the chance to leave Gaza to be with her son but she chose to stay to report and to look after her parents, her friends told us. She gave a kidney to her father. Her mother, unable to get proper treatment, died from cancer 4 months ago
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Alex Howlett (@AlexHowlett2): unmasking the architects of the grim world of human trafficking
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My review of Barbie Latza Nadeau's book 'Every Body Counts: Money, lies and the hidden trade in human lives' in the TLS: the-tls.com/regular-features…
As human trafficking becomes the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, Nadeau's book is nothing less than essential reading
