After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel (The Guardian)

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned.

Terror also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more submissive.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/08/state-terror-us-israel-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu

#us #UnitedStates #ice #trump #israel #netanhayu #autocracy #ArbitraryDetention #SecretPolicing #sureveillance #MilitarisedPolicing #StateTerror

After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1269-88c6-f48a-726590349923

#AmnestyUK free #DrHussamAbuSafiya
#ArbitraryDetention by #Israel

We must end #occupation #apartheid and #genocide

#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether

The Responsibility to Protect

Swedish diplomat Harald Edelstam’s civic courage during the 1973 military coup in Chile points the way for the international community to get serious about #arbitrarydetention and #hostage-taking.

https://lnkd.in/gXaKtb5Q

https://open.substack.com/pub/susanneberge/p/the-responsibility-to-protect?r=1y95mt&utm_medium=ios

"Dr. Badar Khan Suri:
So these allegations, I should call them speculations or whatever, because, in the court of — in the court in front of the judge, they were not able to bring any shred of any evidence, any proof, anything.
The honorable judge kept on asking, whatever you guys are talking in social media, bring something here. Nobody brought anything.
"

#gaza #trump #censorship #arbitrarydetention

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/georgetown-scholar-and-wife-speak-out-for-first-time-since-his-ice-detention

https://hcommons.social/@adachika192/114240929042566340

ハーバードのロシア人研究者、ウクライナ戦争開始直後にはっきり反戦抗議活動をして故国を追われ米国のビザを得ていた。フランスに行っていて（彼女のビザは出入国自由）再入国の際ボストン空港で引っかかった。直接のきっかけは、上司（指導教官？）の依頼で仏から持ち帰ってきたカエルの胚（embryo）のサンプルで、持ち込みに必要な書類の不備があったらしい。それ自体は最高500ドルの罰金という“科”であり、いきなりビザの取り消しや身柄の拘束に出るのは全く不当と。

まだ国内で勾留されており、弁護士や支援者が手を尽くしている模様で、続報を待ちます。

少し前、ベネスエラ人が一斉に捕らえられエルサルバドルに送られた際も、“タトゥーの有無”が目印というようなトンデモ基準を見かけており、もう何と言っていいか…😭

#USPol #arbitraryDetention

The biggest defender of free speech is now arresting everyone who thinks something the government doesn’t like. Could it be that Donald Trump only cares about free speech when it’s used to attack others, dividing society and making it even more blind to his interests?
#us #trumpadministration #freedom #freespeech #deportations #arbitrarydetention
#trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd65pp0pe03o

Safeguard Defenders have released a handbook to help the family members of people arbitrarily detained in China

"One year in the making, and compiled from our extensive research on China’s repressive detention systems and interviews with dozens of people including former detainees, Missing in China is being published as a response to the growing risk of detention for foreigners in the authoritarian country."

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/publications/missing-china

#China #HumanRights #CCP #ArbitraryDetention

#Chiapas: Zapatista Support Base Remains Kidnapped by the State Over a Year Since His Detention.
👉 https://avispa.org/zapatista-support-base-remains-kidnapped-by-the-state-over-a-year-since-his-detention/

#HumanRights #Zapatista #PoliticalPrisoner #FabricatedCharges #ArbitraryDetention #IndigenousRights #StopFabricatingCrimes #EndImpunity