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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · 14d

I’m a LibDem voter who has never been a member of any party. Until today. Because for the first time ever, I feel genuine hope in British politics thanks to the leadership of @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Please never change 💚

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Oct 1

Sitting here listing Iran’s ICCPR violations and I can’t help but notice how many Articles are also being breached by the UK government which is also a signatory to, and has ratified the Convention. Reality is, the genocide of Palestinians has made international law meaningless.

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Jun 17

Iran regime arrested a man they claim is a Mossad agent. The man “confesses” to getting instructions from an anarchist channel 10 years ago and using it to make explosives in the last year. So anarchists are Israeli agents now!? Not that people have been trying to overthrow them for 40+ years.

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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · Jun 14

Palestinian health authorities said on Saturday at least 29 Palestinians killed & over 380 wounded while attempting to collect aid over the past two days.

The overall number of victims targeted near aid distribution points is now 274 killed and 2,532 wounded.
www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-do...

Live: At least 90 killed in two days of Israeli attacks, says Gaza health ministry

Israeli strikes kill at least 27 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

www.middleeasteye.net

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Jun 13

There’s also an internet shutdown in Iran where the regime will take all this out on its people. In darkness, Israel continues its genocide of Palestinians while Iran’s regime will use the noose and widespread arrests.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Jun 13

As a lifelong Iranian dissident: fuck the Islamic Republic and Israel. This attack is an act of aggression and can in no way be justified as self-defence. Iran’s regime will take it out on its people while Israel continues the genocide of Palestinians in silence as both have shut down internet.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Jun 4

84 organisations and groups have called for action to stop the execution of Afghan nationals in Iran. Discriminatory state policies and societal racism against Afghans make them the most voiceless victims of the death penalty in Iran.

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Jun 3

Sunny was wrongfully accused and jailed for 16 years, your title doesn’t reflect that and you take an awfully long time to acknowledge it in your article.

“Solitary” has also been misspelt as solidarity.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Jun 3

What devastating news. I first heard of Sunny through the Innocence Project and in recent years, had the pleasure and honour of working with her in the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. She was always one of the first to support our work. Rest in power Sunny, you will be sorely missed ☀️♥️

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Jun 3

Woman who died in Connemara house fire named as former US death row inmate Sunny Jacobs

Postmortem results will determine course of investigation into blaze in Casla early on Tuesday, which killed two people

www.irishtimes.com

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Apr 12

Orwell would approve.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Feb 22

“For the girl whose dad you executed (killed), #NoDeathPenalty”

A young “Woman, Life, Protester” wrote this for me on the streets of a city in Iran 😭😭😭

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Feb 20

WE STAND WITH NO DEATH PENALTY TUESDAYS

Cover photo is the first “Woman Life Freedom” executed protester Mohsen Shekari’s mother with a sign at his grave in Tehran that reads: “We support the prisoners’ ‘No Death Penalty Tuesdays’ strikes, #NoDeathPenalty”

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Feb 20

At least 975 people including 31 women and a child offender were executed in Iran in 2024. This number is an absolute minimum and only include executions verified by 2 independent sources. The real number is well above 1000. Less than 10% of the executions were announced by official sources.

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Shame must change sides”

Shero Gisèle Pelicot spotted in Paris today.

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · Feb 15

Amid the torture and inhumanity of Saydnaya, stories of survival and unbroken spirit offer powerful testimony to the human capacity for resistance.

Inside Saydnaya: Tales of survival and horror in Syria’s notorious prison

Amid the torture and inhumanity of Saydnaya, stories of survival and unbroken spirit offer powerful testimony to the human capacity for resistance.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · Feb 12

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 5

How does this app work because I can’t stand that cesspool anymore.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · May 6

“This Place is a Lottery” - a haunting piece by the supreme Leila Barghouty.

Free Palestine.

This Place is a Lottery – MQR Mixtape

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 16

At least 135 people have been executed in Iran since 7 October 2023. The regime is using the Gaza genocide to carry out executions at an insane rate. The current execution numbers are by no means normal, even for them. 667 executions recorded in 2023 so far. The real number is much higher.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 13

At least 30 humans including 5 Baluch political prisoners have been executed in Iranian prisons in the last week. 48 in 13 days of November is more than 2 executions a day. The death penalty is a tool of political repression in Iran.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 6

At least 26 humans including Kurdish political prisoner Ghasem Abasteh were executed in Iranian prisons in the last week alone. At least 617 in 2023 so far, the majority for drug charges and the highest rate since 2016.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 12

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Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 11

You can tell she’s a teacher.

Stop genocide.
Free Palestine.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 11

Cruella made a lot of people come today.

We marched for peace and a free Palestine. Cruella’s mates brought the hate.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 7

“Ayatollah BBC”

London, innit.

Leila 🇵🇸 @leilat.bsky.social · Nov 6

Their names were Esmail, 29, and Saeed Alizehi, 25. Two Baluch brothers sentenced to death without any drugs ever being found. They vehemently denied the charges but were secretly executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 4 Nov without the right to say goodbye to their family who lost 2 sons in one day.