Rehab Mahamoor

Bangladesh 🇧🇩: Amnesty’s Secretary General, Agnes Callamard, writes to Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus ahead of national elections. The letter raises concerns about the authorities’ continued misuse of anti-terror legislation against journalists, and their failure to adequately safeguard the rights to life, security of persons, and freedom of expression, and association. #Bangladesh #BangladeshElection2026 amnesty.org/en/documents/a…

Bangladesh: Ahead of Bangladesh’s 12 Feb elections, Amnesty International has issued a Human Rights Charter urging the next government to break with past human rights violations. The agenda calls for accountability, protection of free expression, rights for women, workers, Indigenous peoples and Rohingya refugees, climate justice, and an end to the death penalty. #Bangladesh #HumanRights #Elections amnesty.org/en/documents/a…

#Bangladesh 🇧🇩: Amnesty International calls on the interim government of Bangladesh to ensure prompt, thorough, independent, and impartial investigations into the killing of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, and the subsequent mob violence which led to the burning of the offices Prothom Alo and Daily Star and Chhayanaut, and the harassment of New Age editor, Nurul Kabir. Furthermore, we are alarmed by the lynching of Hindu garment worker Dipu Chandra Das following allegations of blasphemy. Amnesty International condemns the mob violence which has resulted in injuries, destruction of property, and even death. The interim government must take immediate steps to hold perpetrators of acts of violence and killings accountable in a fair trial without recourse to the death penalty.

Bangladesh: Release Anis Alamgir now! The arrest of the journalist in Bangladesh who was detained on 15 December under the Anti-Terrorism Act continues an alarming trend of individuals being targeted for being perceived to support the now banned Awami League. amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #Bangladesh

Wrote about the importance of a strong NHRI in Bangladesh:

The UK has imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankan individuals for human rights abuses during the civil war - Shavendra Silva, former Chief of Defence Staff. - Wasantha Karannagoda, former Navy Commander. - Jagath Jayasuriya, former Army Commander. - Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan (Karuna Amman), former LTTE commander. These measures include travel bans and asset freezes.

Of course the ACJU would open its doors to a known racist who intentionally peddled Islamophobic content at the height of anti-Muslim discrimination in Sri Lanka.

Here is my initial response given to @TheMorningLK in reaction to the reported comments by Minister Vijitha Herath on the NPP's stance on the long overdue reforms of the MMDA.

2)@anuradisanayake @Dr_HariniA surely you cannot be unaware of numerous analysis of PTA, including by UN and the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka that demonstrate PTA doesn’t adhere to intl HR standards. SL as signatory to intl HR conventions has a duty to abide by them.

Bangladesh 🇧🇩: Alarming incidents of violence were reported in Chittagong Hill Tracts as clashes between the Bengali settlers and the Indigenous community left at least three dead and more than 15 injured. Heavy gun firing was also reported, along with mob attacks against the Indigenous Peoples as dozens of houses and businesses belonging to the Indigenous Jummo community were set ablaze in Khagrachari and Rangamati districts. According to media reports, the latest violence erupted following the death of a man who was allegedly beaten by mob on suspicion of theft in Khagrachhari on 18 September. Amnesty International calls on the government of Bangladesh to immediately end the mob violence, work to prevent further escalation of violence in the area and address their underlying causes, including by upholding the obligations under the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord. The authorities must carry out a thorough, impartial and independent investigation into the attacks and ensure those responsible are held accountable.

We are thrilled to welcome the 2024 inaugural Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Fellow, Thyagi Ruwanpathirana @ThyagiR, who will join us this Fall! The Tiruchelvam Fellowship is hosted jointly with @HumanRightsHLS at @Harvard_Law. Click for more: plsmw.law.harvard.edu/news-article/a…

Someone was woken up before September ended

“The dead have a grave. But the disappeared persons have no signs — alive or dead. And we can neither mourn their absence nor celebrate our happiness,” Moving piece by @MahrangBaloch_ on the fight against disappearances by Baloch women: dawn.com/news/1844835/n…

Enraged that this ad just popped up after opening the @MuslimPro app. This is insidious. Does #MuslimPro not check what they advertise or are they knowingly accepting money from genocide defenders?

Ravima from #SriLanka bravely speaks against workplace harassment as a #GarmentWorker. She is not a union member - she saw people get dismissed when they joined a union so she is too scared to join. Stand in solidarity with Ravima and others like her calling for #JusticeForGarmentWorkers, even beyond #InternationalWomensDay #GenderEquality #FairLabour

Looking for the words to describe advocating the indoctrination of children and normalizing genocide, because evil doesn’t cut it anymore.

Please, please, please head to Urban Dictionary and click the thumbs up to secure this word into the world’s vocabulary—it exists anyway, and that won’t change, but let’s make it official! urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter…

🇵🇰Pakistan: This #TransgenderDayofRemembrance Amnesty International calls on the Government of Pakistan (@GovtofPakistan) to take measures to protect the transgender community from all forms of gender-based violence and discrimination and ensure impartial investigations are held with the intention of holding perpetrators to account without recourse to the death penalty.

Spoke to Palestinian activist #AhedTamimi's mother Nariman Tamimi. She confirmed that whereabouts of Ahed and her father Bassem Tamimi are unknown to the family till now.

Journalists should remember that Israel's first response after they killed their colleague Shireen Abu-Akleh was to say Palestinians shot her. This is part of a consistent Israeli military information damage control strategy in response to such events.