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My article on executive creep of power - the mark of authoritarian governments
#humanrights #nauru #detention
“A toddler was locked up for the first two years of her life. These are the people the @HighCourtofAus ruling .. protects, not just non-citizens with criminal records." @AlisonBattisson on creeping totalitarianism.
#auspol
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“A toddler was locked up for the first two years of her life. These are the people the @HighCourtofAus ruling .. protects, not just non-citizens with criminal records." @AlisonBattisson on creeping totalitarianism.
#auspol
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An important piece by @Brosinsm and @p_orchard in Opinio Juris for anyone interested in international justice and accountability (that I was interviewed for.)
"No one can deny that there’s a million Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar."
#rohingya #opiniojuris #internationalcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity
Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Examining the Utility of Universal Jurisdiction Efforts to Address Forced Displacement in Myanmar opiniojuris.org/2026/08/11/s… via @opiniojuris
My piece in the Australian Financial Review.
"Munshi refused to participate in the corrupt human rights-abusing practices of Mongolian politicians, their families, other mining executives and powerful businessmen stripping the country’s natural resources without proper recompense to the Mongolian people."
He is stuck in Mongolia subject to a travel ban, which the court last month thought had been limited...
It is time for Australia and Britain to step up and #bringmohome
Mongolian Catch-22: Court leaves Australian businessman stranded in exile afr.com/politics/federal/mon…
Stop the Deportation of Jawad Rasul: Let Him Stay in Australia - Sign the Petition! c.org/8BtSKbQ24b via @ChangeAUS
Janet Pelly and I write about this novel concept...
Illegal detention. High Court tells Government to obey the law michaelwest.com.au/illegal-d… via @MichaelWestBiz
Immigration detention staff going on rolling stoppages - Shut the centres down - they can't be run safely ever.
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Follow the Taliban's money - Help Afghan girls & women - Sign the Petition! c.org/XDPwtcccbQ via @ChangeAUS
Proudly at the Afghan Women’s Football teams first tournament since being recognised by #fifa with my home made sign.
What is happening in #herat and around #afghanistan must stop.
Let’s take action against the Taliban and those supporting its government.
#afghanwomen
I just took action with @theactionnet: Not in our Name Women Australia. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/nion…
Let's protect transrights. Transrights are human rights.
I signed.
The catholic church has a long way to go on addressing historic and current issues but Pope Leo XIV is taking some good steps. Now to give some of that wealth back…
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-apol…
My client was groomed and abused in state care. His carer conducted a secret marriage ceremony when he was child. Now the very Minister that was his guardian at the time wants to remove him to Nauru for the rest of his life.
Australia failed this young man, who was placed in state care as a 16 year old orphan. The criminal justice system silenced him and failed him when evidence of the abuser's prior sexual history was deemed inadmissible, and in an incredible turn of events, he was convicted of her abuse.
Two independent Tribunal's have found that my client was abused in state care and he should be released into the Australian community. One recommended perjury charges be explored against the abuser.
If you care about justice and how Australia treats its most vulnerable, contact your local Federal Member or the Minister of Home Affairs and demand that my client not be sent to Nauru and is released from immigration detention to rebuild his life. Send this article with your correspondence.
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#humanrights #refugee #Nauru #silenced
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I have been raging all day about this. In 2022 Australia issued a tourist visa to Majid Khademi, then the Head of counter-espionage within the IRGC's Intelligence Organisation. Khademi went on to become the head of the entire organisation before he was killed in an airstrike just days ago. This shocking revelation only came to light because of an FOI request by the @australian
My head is still spinning. IRGC Intelligence arrested me in 2018 and subjected me to a sham trial, psychological torture, sexual harassment and gross violations of my human rights.
They extorted Australia to arrange the release of 3 convicted terrorists in exchange for my freedom. They arrested 3 other Australians at the same time as me to further pile on the pressure. Then, two years after my release, in the middle of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, we allow one of the top leaders of IRGC-Intel into Australia on a tourist visa.
We can assume Khademi wasn't here to check out the Opera House or dive the Great Barrier Reef.
What on earth are our security agencies doing to let this slip through? And what else have they missed? This negligence directly endangers myself and every Iranian-Australian who has found themselves a target of transnational repression coming out of Iran. How safe should we really be feeling here in our own country? And who else have they allowed to sneak in through the front door?
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Every female client I've had inside detention has been the victim of gendered violence. The @AusHumanRights recommendations must be followed immediately.
Women are being retraumatised inside Villawood and nothing is changing womensagenda.com.au/latest/w…
My client kicked away one of the guns during the Bondi massacre, potentially stopping more deaths. He faces removal to Nauru at any moment. Myself, his partner and children call on the Government to let him stay. His fate is in the hands of @Tony_Burke
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The @nytimes has compiled an incredibly detailed and comprehensive account of the massacre committed in Iran, by direct order of Supreme Leader Khamenei. It was so graphic and so harrowing that I was unable to read to the end. If you know someone downplaying what happened or peddling conspiracies please show them this. @farnazfassihi
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An Iranian-Persian nationalist claims that Reza Pahlavi is supported by Kurdish political parties. This is false. Kurdistan rejects any transition of power that would reproduce another Persian-supremacist system. #IranRevolution2026
"Activists inside Iran... do not want to hear symbolic statements anymore," says journalist @NazeninA. "This time, they want Mr. Trump to prove that he's a man of his word."
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Iraqi Shi'a 'popular mobilisation forces' and an Afghan division trained by Iran to fight in Syria, respectively. An overlooked aspect of the Islamic Republic's Axis of Resistance strategy thus far has been the role these proxies could play in securing the Iranian regime itself from domestic 'threats' inside the country (ie. training foreign proxies to defend the regime from the democratic aspirations of its own people)
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My interview yesterday with @abcnews The World Today
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