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Jean-Pierre Cassarino

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Teach at College of Europe (Natolin), Research associate at IRMC (Tunis). Formerly Chair in Migration Studies at IMERA (Aix-Marseille University). Addicted to Mahler, I know...🙄 https://www.jeanpierrecassarino.com/

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Marie Louise Seeberg @mlsee.bsky.social · 15d

WHY? bbc.com/news/article...

Six West Africans deported from US to Ghana sent to Togo despite legal fight

They had started legal action against Ghana for agreeing to accept them from the US.

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Refugees in Libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social · 18d

🆘 Distress Call from Benghazi ⚠️

Two days ago, we received an SOS message from a group of women and children allegedly held in an EU-linked detention camp in Benghazi, Libya. Most of them are Eritrean. They reported daily rape and sexual violence, starvation, torture, and ransom demands.

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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 18d

If a government recognises Palestinian statehood then it recognises its right to exist. On that basis, that government cannot continue to fund and arm a state that is explicitly trying to destroy the newly recognised state.

Otherwise you’re just doing an actual virtue signal.

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Jean-Pierre Cassarino @jpcassarino.bsky.social · Jul 27

Roger Berkowitz: "When ICE disappears individuals in unmarked vans [...] and refuses due process, it is not merely enforcing immigration policy. It is withdrawing the law’s protection from entire categories of people. [...] It is preparation for tyranny." medium.com/amor-mundi/d...

Dangerous Ice

by Roger Berkowitz

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Mar 6

EU summit conclusions on Ukraine (not including Hungary)
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Text of the conclusions. Full text in the link

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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · Jul 11

La Syrie modifie l'état civil des réfugiés palestiniens

Damas a commencé à modifier les documents officiels des Palestiniens de Syrie, en remplaçant le statut de "Palestinien syrien" par celui de "résident palestinien" et en supprimant l'appartenance géographique au profit du terme "étranger".

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · Jul 10

Remembering Srebrenica: 30 years of pain and denial
11 July this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

Remembering Srebrenica: 30 years of pain and denial

11 July this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide

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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · Jul 10

US issues sanctions against UN investigator probing abuses in Gaza

The State Department’s decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, follows an unsuccessful US pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post.

www.euronews.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 10

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica

Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Jul 10

Francesca Albanese is a truth teller. She has spoken out against the genocide of Palestinian civilians as UN representative. Trump is targeting her. Canada is totally silent.
Mark Carney must be clear: either we support international law or we support gangster regimes.

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Gabrielle Cathala @gabriellecthl.bsky.social · Jul 9

Soutien total à Francesca Albanese. Elle mériterait d’être prix Nobel de la Paix 🕊️

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Jean-Pierre Cassarino @jpcassarino.bsky.social · Jul 9

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EXCLUSIVE: Top Economists Back Francesca Albanese's Report on the 'Economy of Genocide' in Gaza

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, and others join open letter supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Jul 9

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

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RSF @rsf.org · Jun 29

#Algeria: RSF condemns the Tizi Ouzou court's decision to sentence French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes to 7 years in prison. A football writer & contributor to SoFoot magazine, he spent a year under a judicial control order & is now in jail just for doing his job. rsf.org/en/algeria-f...

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Reporters sans frontières assure la promotion et la défense de la liberté d'informer et d'être informé partout dans le monde. L'organisation, basée à Paris, compte des bureaux à l'international (Berli...

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Emile Badarin @ebadarin.com · Jun 26

I'm pleased to share the release of my new book: books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Jun 24

🤔 Trump shows a message from Mark Rutte…

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Abdkadir Jama Mohamed @shulub00.bsky.social · Jun 6

"European Union backs ICC after US sanctions on court judges."

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

European Union backs ICC after US sanctions on court judges

EU affirms its unwavering support for the ICC, denouncing US sanctions as a threat to judicial independence and justice.

www.aljazeera.com

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · May 27

Proud to have put my name, with so many colleagues, to this brilliantly drafted letter

Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war

Their letter warns of genocide in Gaza, and calls on the UK to take concrete actions to meet its international legal obligations.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Giuseppe Martinico @martinicogi.bsky.social · May 26

Many thanks to Dr. Pratyush Kumar for his detailed, original, and thought-provoking review of my book Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism nujslawreview.org/wp-content/u...

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Jean-Pierre Cassarino @jpcassarino.bsky.social · May 26

Philip Martin, Edward Taylor, Stephen Castles and Hein de Haas have already contributed to debates on the root causes of migration. The migration-hump model perfectly responds to the dilemma detailed in the brief even if the authors do not refer to it.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 26

Syrian refugee, 19, praised after pinning down assailant in Hamburg knife attack

Muhammad Al Muhammad called a hero after helping to halt train station attack in which 18 people were injured A 19-year-old Syrian refugee in Germany has been hailed as a hero after he pinned down an assailant at Hamburg’s main railway station, helping to halt an attack in which 18 people were injured. Police on Friday said a 39-year-old German woman had been arrested at the scene of the attack and that she was believed to be in a state of psychological distress. The 18 people injured were later reported to all be in stable condition, while the woman was placed in psychiatric care. Continue reading...

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Jean-Pierre Cassarino @jpcassarino.bsky.social · May 26

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Alain Berset on the joint letter challenging the European Court of Human Rights

Secretary General Strasbourg 24 May 2025

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Molly Quell @mollyquell.bsky.social · May 15

The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.

American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.

NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · May 12

Our response to this government white paper on immigration

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 7

The news that Trump is going to sent migrants in the US to the hellhole detention centers in Libya comes the same day we learned that Trump wanted to send migrants to UKRAINE in the middle of a goddamn WAR ZONE.

Washington Post: Trump team urged Ukraine to take U.S. deportees amid war, documents show
The extraordinary request illustrates the administration's aggressive bid to identify willing partners who will accept people expelled by the U.S.
Today at 3:56 p.m. EDT

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 7

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.

Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

A picture of an incredibly grim room, filed with depressed-looking African men, in filthy clothes laying on filthy mattresses in a filthy detention center with bars on the window. Everyone looks like the life has gone out of them.

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Amnesty International says sexual abuse and beatings rife at camps for those forcibly returned after trying to cross the Med

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · May 1

Romania is resitting the democracy test

Just months after Romania's Constitutional Court barred the controversial "TikTok candidate" Călin Georgescu from the presidential race, the country prepares to return to the polls amid rising tensions, legal confusion, and deep political polarisation, plus a far-right surge on the horizon.

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Jean-Pierre Cassarino @jpcassarino.bsky.social · Apr 20

Cela se fabrique en Italie depuis belle lurette.