Libby Hogan

UNICEF Spox @1james_elder can barely hold back his tears: “What is there to say in the face of such pain here in Gaza and such impunity everywhere else?” Look at the ruined building behind him, he’s at Nasser hospital. You know, like the hospitals Israel doesn’t target.

‘Misinformation war rages online amid India-Pakistan tensions.’ @LibbyHogan reports for @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2025-05-2…

“Aid denial is being used as a weapon”: Strong reporting here with local interviews on the Myanmar quake response and how the junta is directing aid and continuing bombing despite the disaster amp.abc.net.au/article/105115… @LibbyHogan

"Access to education is not meaningful progress if women cannot freely move, speak, or participate in public life,"

A senior Taliban official has called for lifting the ban on women’s and girls’ education, calling it unjust and un-Islamic. But is this a tactic for international recognition? #afghanistan abc.net.au/news/2025-01-2…

Pakistan government denies protest deaths as Imran Khan's PTI party mourns. Excellent story by @LibbyHogan and @iamangusmack abc.net.au/news/2024-12-1… via @ABCaustralia

Cracking story from @LibbyHogan on the human cost of Australian fashion retail group Mosaic Brands entering voluntary administration and not paying factories in Bangladesh abc.net.au/news/2024-11-2…

#BREAKING 45 activists sentenced in terms up to 10 years in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case for their role in an unofficial primary election. Legal scholar Benny Tai received the longest sentence of 10 years. #Hongkongprotests #HongKongnationalsecurity

Why has there been a rise in Chinese nationals killed in Pakistan? The answer calls into examination China’s economic corridor and its ‘Silk Roads’ ambitions with gwadar port. My latest: amp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.abc.ne…

🎙️@waiwainu to @abcnews: "These people, 600,000 #Rohingya remaining in #Myanmar, are victims of the genocidal attacks by the Burmese military in 2017 & decades-long persecution." @LibbyHogan on #Rakhine crisis, another result of continued int'l inaction youtu.be/NJnQIjMVGGs?si…

The Rohingya have experienced the sharpest rise in violence since 2017 in recent months and the number of men abducted and conscripted to fight for the Myanmar military has soared to nearly 2000. Here’s one survivor’s story: #rohingya #rohingyagenocide youtube.com/watch?v=NJnQIj…

Reports are coming out today that the Arakan Army has fully captured the Kwin Wine Naval Base and thus controls all of Thandwe Often local media reports that these positions have fallen while there are still some local junta positions holding out, but it's either fallen or nearly

Deepening erosion of press freedom in #HongKong. Stand News editors convicted of sedition for publishing stories of public interest. Prosecutors cited an Op-ed by Nathan Law, an interview with Ted Hui among 17 articles they said were seditious. reuters.com/world/china/ho…

This regional NSW farmer's sister was killed in Gaza. Australia has denied her orphaned kids entry. Have a read. @SBSNews sbs.com.au/news/article/t…

Some more good news from #Bangladesh: disappeared activist Michael Chakma has been found alive. He had been missing since 2019, and many presumed he might have been dead. Michael is an Indigenous rights activist who had been staunchly vocal against abuses committed by the military in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and has campaigned for an end to military rule in the region. The previous government repeatedly ignored desperate appeals from his family, as well as inquiries from the Supreme Court, the @UN Committee against Torture and INGOs like @amnesty and @hrw.   In January 2020, the police finally stated they “could not find anybody named Michael Chakma in any prisons in Bangladesh.” Michael was found in Aynaghor - the state’s secret detention facility. When @NetraNews first exposed the existence of Aynaghor in 2022, the state vehemently denied it and filed cases against them for “spreading disinformation”. The fruits of the student liberation movement is only beginning to be felt. A decade of oppression is slowly coming undone. We must seize this moment and undo state repression in all its forms: at the top of that list is demilitarising the Chittagong Hill Tracts and implement the CHT Accord. We are not free until CHT is free.

1/ The situation in #Maungdaw is now a deadly catastrophe. Escalating atrocities are being targeted at #Rohingya civilians by the second. My community members there tell me that they've been entirely expelled from the downtown & are now trapped along #Myanmar-#Bangladesh border.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasins resigns and flees the country. The military says an interim government is to be formed. #BangladeshProtests #SheikhHasina

Myanmar junta says senior officers held as rebels take over major base reut.rs/3YwlBov

The Bangladesh army continues to patrol Dhaka's streets but businesses have reopened following the worst outbreaks of violence seen in recent years. My wrap on the latest: youtu.be/tPiE8rzxQV0?si…