“Freedom is never going to be complete until such time as all of us who were unjustly detained in Iran are released,” Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said. FULL STORY: iranwire.com/en/prisoners/1… #accountability

The increasing stupidification of London. Debord was right.

Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy - we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead

Former Voice of America journalist Kianoosh Sanjari Kianoosh Sanjari boarded a plane out of his still-beloved Iran on Monday after six years of hell. He sent us this detailed account of what happened: "The Islamic Republic ruined my youth, as it did to millions" iranwire.com/en/prisoners/1…

Holding back tears, this Afghan girl begs the Taliban to let her get an education "We want to study, please let us study." Heartbroken Afghan girls have been denied access to their schools. A broken promise by the Taliban who said they could return today #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

When you join the British Museum staff and receive your new uniform:

Why did KGB agents always travel in threes? One can read, one can write, and the third one keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Left behind by a fleeing Russian convoy in a Ukrainian village: 50 Syrian Pounds

Aah, another day, another upper ceiling for revulsion breached. I don't tweet a lot but for anyone in London who might see this the demo is tonight at the Home Office.

This IranWire piece by Hannah Somerville & Masoud Kazemi about kleptocrats hiding in plain sight in Canada is important. I'm quoted: "...Canada has become the playground of kleptocrats from Iran and other dictatorial countries." cc: Macdonald-Laurier Institute iranwire.com/en/politics/10…

Worth a thousand words.

In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV today, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and his country's international isolation. It's fairly long but worth your time so I've added subtitles.

Oh, those devoted Western anti-imperialists on Twitter that openly root for an authoritarian regime very literally waging a brutal colonial war of conquest in the year 2022. All life is a mystery, indeed.

"As you raised up your hands on that red carpet, you knew that you had won. Others saw that you had won as well. Nobody could see this picture and fail to notice that you had won. You changed the finish line and won." By the great shima shahrabi

This ex-police officer testified at huge personal risk to Aban Tribunal in London about state-ordered killing of civilians in Iran. Now on the #Rwanda offshoring list. Priti Patel MP Human Rights at FCDO who are the others then? Justice for Iran @Freefromtorture iranwire.com/en/november-20…

Not one but two ex-officers who refused to shoot civilians during #Iran's November 2019 protests are understood to be placed on a #UK Home Office-planned deportation flight to #Rwanda next week. iranwire.com/en/politics/10… #truth @MovementforJustice @ShadiSadr @FreedomfromTorture

Breaking: European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg grants rule 39 request to stop the flight to Rwanda from leaving. Basis: real risk of inhuman and degrading treatment (Art. 3 ECHR). Please share - government must comply.

It's great that the British are discovering how difficult it is to get rid of British rule

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