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We post from the faultlines: where human rights, power, and principles collide ⚡️ We track the loud cracks and the quiet shifts, and what they mean.
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Formula 1 raced through Baku yesterday, lending its broadcast to a government that holds 328 political prisoners.
The perpetrators rule, the enablers pay, the accommodators watch the race.
#F1 #AzerbaijanGP🏁
Twelve years in power: Aleksandar Vučić swaps the presidency for the premiership today, tightening his grip on the state 🇷🇸⚡️
What doesn't change:
📈 Prices keep rising
✊ Reforms demanded by student protests
🇪🇺 The EU just blocked Serbia's next accession cluster
Notes from the Faultline retweeted
Ambassador,
there are no cases against US troops right now. There should not be any in fact if the US judiciary system is prepared to investigate any allegations of violations of international or US law by US military personnel or the chain of command. The principle of complementarity is central to the ICC implementation of its mandate.
On the other hand, the current US threats, attacks, sanctions, against the ICC and its personnel (for doing their job) constitute a major impediment to the delivery of justice for millions around the world who are dependent on the ICC.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for @MinPres Prime Minister Jetten. To our Dutch allies I say, we are happy to keep our hands off the #ICC... if it keeps its hands off the United States. Our objections to the Court are bipartisan. Presidents of both parties have declined to submit the Rome Statute for ratification. Our troops, tens of thousands of which are guarding Europe as part of an 80+ year security commitment, and the rest of our citizens, should not be subject to a politicized Court. Full stop.
Putin's propagandists failed to impose their worldview today in Switzerland ⚡️
A right-wing populist bid to redefine Swiss neutrality and lift sanctions on Russia failed.
This should clear the way for Switzerland to lead on a rules-based international order 🇨🇭🌍⤵️
Switzerland has a unique opportunity to impact, now ⚠️
It should initiate a joint letter delivered on appointment of the new UN Secretary-General: the new UNSG should have human rights at the heart of its mandate, seeing them as essential for sustainable peace.
➡️ #StayTuned: Our publication 'Human Rights Hold the World Together: Why Intermediate Powers Must Defend Human Rights within the System the Great Powers Want to Ignore' is out early October.
@avalaina
Days before @PACE_News meets, a Council of Europe member state is in crisis: more political prisoners than ever, independent media and civil society silenced, land borders shut since 2020 under a COVID-era quarantine.
Time to put Azerbaijan on the agenda 🇦🇿
The image is clear and poignant ⚡️
Whilst the world gathers in New York for the UN General Assembly, with many middle powers seeking closer cooperation, Trump plays suitor to Xi with full honours in Washington, DC.
Another step in Trump's bromance with autocrats.
Cutting arms to Ukraine brings torture, sexual violence, enforced disappearances, filtration camps, more deaths.
We couldn’t be more supportive of Nobel Peace laureate, true human rights defender, @avalaina in her answer to @franceskalbs.
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Interview in Italian with Oleksandra Matviychuk in @Open_gol: open.online/2026/09/23/oleks…
Just a question 🧐
The US froze ICC officials' bank accounts, cutting them off from the international financial system, because USD payments clear through US-controlled banks. Isn't it time for all international institutions to move their accounting and financials to the Euro?
We have to say, we're not surprised UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shows her true colours on Russia and Ukraine ⚡️
We remember @ZelenskyyUa was one of the first world leaders to condemn the 7 October attacks. Putin blamed the US and hosted Hamas within three weeks.
10 Ukrainian living in Crimean care homes in 2014 were given Russian citizenship, posted on adoption websites ⚡️
12 years on, their whereabouts are unknown: today Ukrainian Helsinki Union @UGSPL asks the European Court to rule that Russia made them disappear ⚖️
#StayTuned
⚖️ Forthcoming hearing
➡️ Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union on behalf of ten Ukrainian children v. Russia
🗓️ 22 September 2026 at 9.15 a.m.
🔗hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conve…
Russian courts take about 10 minutes to send someone to a psychiatric hospital. They approve over 99 per cent.
49 people held in psychiatric hospitals in political cases, most for opposing the war ⚡️
Russia's psychiatrists remain full members of the @WPA_Psychiatry #WCP26
ALT Square infographic, white background, titled "Psychiatry as a weapon: a hidden face of Putin's war against Ukraine". Seven findings in brown and black. A dot grid: 64 people sent to forced psychiatric treatment, 2017-2025; 49 still confined at end of 2025. A ring chart: 58% of cases linked to opposing the war. Bars by birth decade: 28 born after 1990, 19 born 1970-1990, 17 born 1950-1970. A clock: hearings last about 10 minutes; 99% of up to 20,000 yearly requests approved. Two icons: critics declared mentally ill, ill people declared fit for prison. An iceberg: Memorial and OVD-Info banned, lawyers arrested, about 48 teenagers in occupied Donetsk reportedly sentenced with no details known. A globe: Russian psychiatrists remain full members of the World Psychiatric Association. Question: How long? Logos of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development and the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry at the bottom.
➡️ New report by the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry and the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development, with data as of 1 September 2026
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