Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
This joint statement is testament to the importance of Joshua Wong as a leader of the crushed democracy movement in Hong Kong. Beijing is afraid of him and should pay a price for his new unjust lenghty prison term. nitter.cf/FCDOGovUK/status/21186…
Joint statement on the sentencing of Joshua Wong ⬇️
ALT Statement on the sentencing of Joshua Wong 06 November 2026 Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment following a further charge under the National Security Law (NSL). This comes just months after leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance were convicted under the same legislation. These are further examples of how the NSL is being used to target individuals for political expression and participation. We call for an immediate end to all unjust prosecutions of individuals charged under the NSL and urge the authorities in China and Hong Kong to uphold their international commitments and honour the rights and freedoms guaranteed to the people of Hong Kong under the Sino-British Joint Declaration (1984). Foreign ministries of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States
A leading Macau democracy campaigner was jailed for 12-1/2 years on charges of subversion, in the China-ruled gambling hub's first known "national security" (meaning Chinese Communist Party-rule preserving) trial. trib.al/UD82ceF
The outrageous ten-year prison sentence that Beijing insisted on for Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong is “a clear example of how the National Security Law is being used to target individuals for political expression and participation”. trib.al/YMDrxa8
Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who has now resigned, is accused of fighting measures to make Americans' food healthier in order to secure Republican campaign contributions. trib.al/0o0goft
It’s good that California’s governors keep commuting death sentences, but California voters should be given the opportunity soon to repeal the death penalty altogether. trib.al/8I7eDrL
Convicting an impeached official requires two-thirds of the Senate. That's usually a tall order, but bipartisan horror at the ideological incompetence of Trump's defense secretary Pete Hegseth should be enough to meet that challenge. trib.al/BWMSWlI
Good that Marco Rubio is pressing for the release of unjustly imprisoned democracy activist Joshua Wong. If only Trump would make Joshua's freedom a priority in his dealings with Xi Jinping. Joshua is the symbol of hope for Hong Kong's crushed democracy. nitter.cf/SecRubio/status/211872…
Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right politician who lost Brazil’s presidential election last month, battled “to maintain political relevance” after Trump let him flee to the US. He spoke from Mar-a-Lago where Trump is also struggling with his political future. trib.al/PAomsvW
Senior Trump officials resort to a circular firing squad rather than admit that Trump's own corrupt, self-obsessed policies were behind the midterm results (as well as the refusal of do-nothing Republicans in Congress to stand up to him). nitter.cf/AFpost/status/21188770…
Susie Wiles and her close aide were screamed at and kicked out of the Oval Office by President Trump last night, according to Real America’s Voice correspondent Neil McCabe. This was after the President became aware of Susie’s efforts to scapegoat Pete Hegseth for the midterm catastrophe and her leaking info about him to the media.
Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) Deputy Director Morgan DeWitt-Snow was also shouted at by Trump and followed Susie Wiles out of the Oval. Morgan controls staffing for the Trump administration.
Morgan DeWitt-Snow is a Susie Wiles loyalist and donated to Mike Pence’s failed 2024 presidential campaign.
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An Iranian court has sentenced two men arrested during January's anti-government protests to death, adding to a growing number of protesters facing execution in the northeastern city of Mashhad. trib.al/D84KHot
Kenneth Roth retweeted
Any country should be ashamed to support @Lana_Nusseibeh for UN Secretary General after years in which she was chief apologist for the arms pipeline that has resulted in mass murder and rape in Sudan. Could anyone be more contrary to UN values?
Backfire: in North Carolina, Democrats appear “to have overcome a gerrymandered congressional map to flip its delegation to a possible 10-to-4 split.” trib.al/iULpKE1
After midterm voters utterly repudiated his agenda, Trump signals he plans to do more of the same more intensely by promoting the ideologue, Stephen Miller, as his chief of staff. trib.al/GCjRUD1
Think about the positive things that could have been done with Elon Musk’s $500 million if he hadn’t frittered it away in an unsuccessful effort to elect his right-wing Republican allies. trib.al/oKrp4Xy
Netanyahu tries to stop the opposition from forming a government supported by Israeli Arab parties by claiming that Israel would not survive. No, but his settler violence and settlement expansion could be jeopardized. Unclear about his apartheid. trib.al/kZAr951
Israel's opposition Gadi Eisenkot now has the chance to unseat Netanyahu, but only if he is open to forming a governing coalition with the support of Israeli Arab political parties on reasonable terms. Can he overcome his prejudice to do so? trib.al/x42EdQD
After the Republicans’ defeat, Houston will no longer inform Trump’s ICE of low-level immigrant offenders its police encounter. trib.al/dQtUglm
Oh my, after years of do-nothing Trumpism, someone may finally try to regulate Wall Street. trib.al/yea49eI
1. UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh wants to lead the UN.
2. A UN report found her country sent Colombian mercenaries to the genocidal RSF in Sudan.
3. She repeatedly lied to cover up that criminal complicity.
4. That should make her ineligible to be UN chief. trib.al/XOlrWyM
After the US Supreme Court gutted constitutional protection and Republicans took advantage to try to dilute the Black voter, Black voters got their payback with a surge in turnout that elected Democrats across US southern states. trib.al/1Sdp3oB
