Thanks to @MaajidNawaz for having me. The world needs to know about @UN complicity in #UyghurGenocide. @antonioguterres this needs to stop now. It is not difficult. Just stop.

OHCHR don't work weekends. Newsflash: I, Miranda Brown, Anders Kompass and other #whistleblowers did. Because if someone is about to be executed for their politics, children are about to be raped or protestors about to be beaten, we cared.
We were fired. So OHCHR lacks capacity.

Macron changed the protest route to boulevards des maréchaux to make them look smaller.
Better luck next time.
People care about under-funding public services. Billionaires have bought up the French press, but the population has cameras in their pocket.
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When Lana Nusseibeh visited a refugee camp in eastern Chad in an attempt to polish her country's image by handing out aid a number of Sudanese refugees refused it outright.

They stated they didn't want sacks of flour but for the UAE to stop funding the RSF genocidaires.

@Lana_Nusseibeh UN #whistleblowers are responsible for uncovering more misconduct than all other methods combined.
We report child rape, complicity in genocide, funding of terrorism, millions of dollars of fraud.
And every one of us is fired. The criminals are promoted.
How will you fix that?

RT @melissakchan: When @Sarah_G_Cook produces research, I pay attention. The first of her multi-part series on the deeply opaque, Party-con…

Being a woman does not automatically translate into champion of women’s rights. The UN has proven itself to be an instrument of the misogynist establishment & women only rise through the ranks at the behest of the men in charge. The only change will be a doubling down

Doesn't it seem a little awkward for the UAE to run a candidate for UN Secretary General at the same time the UAE is arming the RSF militia committing mass murder and mass rape in Sudan?

When whistleblowers are punished instead of protected, fewer people are willing to report corruption and abuse.

We explore the enforcement gap behind many whistleblower protection frameworks and what can be done about it. anticorru.pt/3jF

Navi Pillay handed He Geng's name to China. He Geng is the wife of Gao Zhisheng.
Gao smuggled a book out of detention in which he recounts being tortured specifically to make him tell his family not to do advocacy.
Navi Pillay got the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gao is missing.

Policing 101, French edition:
The use of force must be necessary to the achievement of a legitimate aim, and proportionate to achievement of that aim (i.e. the least force required).
I don't think dislike of the flute qualifies.
@NaomiOhReally @Mediapart
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🧹 Des passants ont spontanément aider les services de propreté de Paris a nettoyer la place de la République à Paris. #franceinfo

I'd love another hit on those Russian bot farms about now.
The stars of David painted on homes and businesses in my neighbourhood in Paris turned out to be a Russian op.
The unrelenting xenophobia of anglophone Twitter on the French protests may turn out to be the same. /1

But policing protest is supposed to be about deescalation. Contain the black block (hint: they're the ones wearing balaclavas - illegal in French protests).
Do not aim tear gas at the wind section of an orchestra for fun.
Do not use military weapons against children. /4

Anglophone Twitter is divorced from all reality on what is actually happening in France. And a lot of the accounts from which anglophone Twitter is getting its info are the same ones that amplified those stars of David.
Follow @edwyplenel or other *independent* French media. /end

La Une de Mediapart samedi 17 octobre 2026 au soir, à contre-courant des discours politiques et médiatiques dominants où l'on ne parle que des violences afin de disqualifier une mobilisation massive. #17octobre
👉 mediapart.fr

Le 17 octobre 1961, à Paris, des milliers d’Algériens manifestent pacifiquement contre le couvre-feu discriminatoire qui leur est imposé. Cette manifestation, organisée en pleine guerre d’Algérie, est réprimée avec une violence extrême par la police, sous l’autorité du préfet es sont frappés, arrêtés, emprisonnés. Des manifestants sont jetés dans la Seine. D’autres ne rentreront jamais chez eux.

Pendant des décennies, ce massacre a été entouré de silence, de déni et d’oubli. Les victimes et leurs familles ont trop longtemps attendu que leur souffrance soit reconnue à sa juste mesure.

Rendre hommage aux victimes du 17 octobre 1961 n’est ni un geste contre la France, ni une volonté de raviver les blessures du passé. C’est, au contraire, une exigence de vérité, de justice et de dignité. C’est affirmer qu’aucune vie humaine ne vaut moins qu’une autre, que les victimes de violences d’État méritent la même considération, quelle que soit leur origine, et que notre mémoire collective ne peut se construire sur des oublis sélectifs.

La reconnaissance officielle est indispensable, mais elle ne suffit pas. Il faut transmettre cette histoire aux jeunes générations, lui donner toute sa place dans les programmes scolaires, préserver les témoignages, ouvrir les archives et faire vivre la mémoire des victimes dans l’espace public.

Le 17 octobre 1961 appartient à l’histoire de France autant qu’à celle de l’Algérie. Il nous rappelle que les principes de liberté, d’égalité et de fraternité ne peuvent être invoqués à géométrie variable. Ils n’ont de sens que lorsqu’ils s’appliquent à toutes et à tous, sans distinction.

Se souvenir, ce n’est pas enfermer les peuples dans leur passé. C’est leur permettre de construire un avenir fondé sur la vérité, le respect et la confiance.

L’hommage aux victimes du 17 octobre 1961 est une nécessité morale, historique et démocratique.

Pour que les morts ne soient pas oubliés.
Pour que le silence ne l’emporte jamais sur la vérité.
Pour que la mémoire éclaire l’avenir.

N’oublions jamais le 17 octobre 1961.

Full results of 1st color-coded ballot of UN Security Council straw poll for secretary-general:

Grynspan: 9 encourage (3 from P5), 5 discourage (2 from P5)

Rodrigues-Birkett: 8 encourage (3 from P5), 6 discourage (2 from P5) (Each has 1 no opinion)

Grossi: 8 encourage (2 from P5), 6 discourage (2 from P5)

Sall: 5 encourage (2 from P5), 10 discourage (3 from P5), 0 no opinion

Otunnu: 4 encourage (1 from P5), 10 discourage (3 from P5), 1 no opinion

Espinosa: 3 encourage (1 from P5), 9 discourage (3 from P5), 3 no opinion

A-Baki: 1 encourage (0 from P5), 14 discourage (5 from P5), 0 no opinion

RT @RushanAbbas: Reading Yasinjan Toxti’s story was not easy. He died in Chinese custody in 2018, but authorities told his family he had be…