Jared Genser

I’m so very grateful to @MelissaMahtani for this brilliant profile of me in @guardian - “The Man Who Performs Miracles: How ‘The Extractor’ Works to Free Political Prisoners” - She really captures the essence of this work and why it means so much to me. shorturl.at/ginKU

.@JourneyOfficial frontman & organ player @TheJonathanCain is sporting a Washington @Capitals #26 #NicDowd jersey at @CapitalOneArena tonight! @capitalpr @monsportnet Oh, wait!! He just borrowed Dowder’s number - it says Cain on the back, so HE is the fan!

I am SO proud of @liliantintori, the wife of @leopoldolopez of #Venezuela and @bertavalle, the wife of Felix @Maradiaga of #Nicaragua who today with @WLCongress & @NEDemocracy launched two new books: “Pathway to Freedom: Handbook for the Liberation of #PoliticalPrisoners” and “After Liberation: Handbook for the Reintegration of Political Prisoners.” bit.ly/4u5jq8L - I worked over many years with these courageous women to secure their husbands’ release from prison. And it is amazing to see how they have taken their lived experiences and, working with others, created these extraordinary resources for political prisoners and their families.

Thanks to @sophiaalcacer & the @Harvard @thecrimson for the great story about our panel discussion on Iran #humanrights hosted by @HarvardIOP and @CarrCenter. thecrimson.com/article/2026/2…

I am excited to moderate a timely virtual discussion on Tues. 2/24 at 6 pm EST with @AlinejadMasih @hadighaemi @sianamazi @tahbazmorad at @HarvardIOP @Kennedy_School entitled “#Iran at a Crossroads: #HumanRights in a Changing Landscape,” co-sponsored by the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights. iop.harvard.edu/events/iran-cr… @CarrCenter @FreeMorad1

I have just submitted an #urgent #appeal to @UN #Special #Rapporteur on the #Right to #Health @drtlaleng #mofokeng on behalf of fmr. Prime Minister @ImranKhanPTI asking for her immediate intervention with the #Pakistan regime. #ImranKhan has lost most vision in one eye and he and so many other #political #prisoners have been systematically denied essential medical treatment for serious health conditions. This must end immediately! @sayedzbukhari @PTIofficial @kasim_khan_1999 #HumanRights @bogartjacob @UNHumanRights @volker_turk @UN_SPExperts @UN_HRC

We would like to thank Brandon Silver of @TheRWCHR for mentioning Imran Khan’s name as a political prisoner, during his speech at Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Thanks to patriotic overseas Pakistani Dr. Sabreena for highlighting Imran Khan’s name during the speech. @GenevaSummit @SabreenaDTRT #FreeImranKhan

“The conviction & sentence of @RubenVardanyan_ to 20 years in prison by the Baku Military Court on manufactured charges is simply a travesty of justice. A respected businessman and philanthropist, Ruben’s only ‘crime’ was standing up for the right to self-determination of the Armenian-Christian people of Nagorno-Karabakh, some 120,000 of whom were victims of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s ethnic cleansing campaign that drove them from that region into Armenia. The trial itself was a total sham as it is illegal for civilians to ever be tried before a military court. It was also held in secret, with countless other due process abuses such repeated denials of access to counsel and the court simply ignoring dozens of filed motions that under Azeri law had to each be ruled upon within days of their filing. Beyond that, literally all the so-called ‘evidence’ of the ‘witnesses’ presented to the court was illegal as inadmissible hearsay. Every witness claimed they or family members were injured in attacks by the Armenian military or other armed groups - but the sum total of the ‘evidence’ Ruben was actually connected to or responsible for any of these attacks was their having heard in the Azeri state-run media that he was responsible. That is evidence of nothing at all. As such, Ruben’s conviction and sentence violates both international and Azeri law and all 19 Armenian-Christian political prisoners and POWs must be immediately and unconditionally released. I urge President @realDonaldTrump to follow through on his public commitment to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to secure the release of all of them from President Aliyev so they can safely return to Armenia.” Jared Genser, International Counsel to Ruben Vardanyan #freerubenvardanyan #freearmenianprisoners

Thank you SO much @UN Special Rapporteur on #Torture @DrAliceJEdwards for making public the letter you sent to #Pakistan on @ImranKhanPTI’s case after our submission to you, letting the world know the regime didn’t even bother to reply, believing it can act with total #impunity. We will keep up the fight until he and all Pakistan’s #political #prisoners are free! @sayedzbukhari @PTIofficial @kasim_khan_1999 #HumanRights @bogartjacob spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/…

It was an honor for the @Neuro_Rights Foundation to work with our Canadian partners on this historic initiative, which makes Canada the first country in the world to protect neural data as sensitive information. linkedin.com/posts/office-o…

@ishaantharoor @washingtonpost I’m so sorry Ishaan, that is terrible news.

I have been laid off today from the @washingtonpost, along with most of the International staff and so many other wonderful colleagues. I’m heartbroken for our newsroom and especially for the peerless journalists who served the Post internationally — editors and correspondents who have been my friends and collaborators for almost 12 years. It’s been an honor to work with them. I launched the WorldView column in January 2017 to help readers better understand the world and America’s place in it and I’m grateful for the half a million loyal subscribers who tuned into the column several times a week over the years.

I’m delighted to be speaking at a virtual event hosted by @WFLS1952 & @StimsonCenter on Thursday 2/19 from 12-1 pm EST, entitled “Neurotechnologies, AI, and the Right to Mental Privacy: Can the Law Save Us From Losing Our Minds?” You can register at the attached link. wfls.org/events/neurote…

Last Friday's cross-regional @UN #humanrights seminar on inclusive, person-centered language in criminal justice underscored how language shapes reintegration outcomes and human rights. Moderated by our Director of Int’l Policy and Advocacy, Hannah Pierce-Carty, with opening remarks from Costa Rica and closing reflections @UNHumanRights, plus lived-experience insights from Kenya, the U.S., and Czechia. youtu.be/yTmC5DDEMvw

The people of Iran are being slaughtered. Let your love for them be greater than your hatred for any individual in the opposition and let us focus on ending this theocracy! I beg you.

My big push in this interview is for @realDonaldTrump to help set up a hybrid tribunal like those set up for #Lebanon, #SierraLeone, and #Cambodia to try Nicolas Maduro for #crimesagainsthumanity.