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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨This isn’t history. It’s a plan for our future.

Amnesty UK has exposed powerful & well-funded groups that are working to stop women, LGBTI+ people & children making decisions over our bodies, health & futures.

This matters to all of us as everyone’s rights are at risk.

Join us in exposing them.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 ALERT: Police Scotland is developing plans to use live facial recognition technology

Facial recognition tech:
🕵️ is mass surveillance
❌ is NOT compatible with Scotland’s human rights obligations
⚠️ disproportionately impacts racialised communities

We need to oppose this: amn.st/6008AqWA0

Police Scotland has decided move ahead with the use of Live Facial Recognition technology by law enforcement in Scotland.
Amnesty firmly opposes the use of this dangerous technology.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 1d

Without an immediate and sustained ceasefire by all parties there will be no end in sight to civilian suffering.

Image reads: The world must no longer turn its back on humanity. Bullet points follow: End Israel's genocide in Gaza, release civilian hostages, ceasefire now.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 1d

- The UK must stop exporting arms to Israel.
- States must follow their legal obligations and press Israel to end its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
- Palestinian armed groups must release all civilian hostages immediately and unconditionally.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 1d

This is genocide.

This horror has been made possible with the support of Israel’s allies, like the UK, and the tightening of Israel’s 18-year-long illegal blockade that has inflicted unimaginable suffering.

This must end now. Humanity cannot bear this any more.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been two years since Israel began its brutal onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza. Over 67,000 Palestinians - mostly civilians - have been killed. Most of the population has been forcibly displaced, starved and subjected to conditions of life calculated to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been two years since the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel, during which at least 1,200 Israelis and other nationals - mostly civilians - were killed and 251 people were taken hostage, of which 20 are still alive and held in Gaza.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 2d

We are watching the real-life consequences of outpourings of hatred.

A year after the 2024 racist riots, there is an urgent need for a reset in our national debate.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 2d

According to Tell MAMA there has been a significant rise in the number of Islamophobic hate cases in the UK between June & Sept 2025. Not including the most recent horrific attack, there have been 17 reported cases that involved attacks on mosques or Islamic institutions in this time period.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 2d

This follows months of increasing hostility to racialised and migrant communities in the UK – boosted by anti-migrant rhetoric across the political spectrum and in the media.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 2d

Amnesty UK condemns the horrific attack on the East Sussex Mosque this weekend.

We offer solidarity to Muslim communities who will be shaken by this act of violence.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 6d

We are deeply saddened by & condemn the attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue.

Acts of violence have no place in our society. Politicians & the media must ensure their actions in the following days don't stoke division further.

We must focus on the humanity that connects us all.

Image reads: living free from violence is a human right. everyone has the right to practise their religion or belief, and visit their place of worship without the fear of being attacked.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 7d

Cruel policies lead to poverty. The 2 child cap punishes the poorest families. It must be removed in its entirety.

Labour could scrap cruel two-child benefit limit as possible replacement emerges

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is said to be looking at several options to replace the Tory-era austerity policy blamed for trapping hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty

www.mirror.co.uk

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 10d

There are serious human rights concerns around not only the proscription of Palestine Action, but also the chilling consequences this decision has had. The UK's overly broad terrorism laws are being misused to suppress free speech.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 10d

This is absolutely not a normal situation, and we cannot let it become so. This is a serious violation of our right to protest, happening in front of our eyes right here in the UK.

These arrests should not be happening. It’s clearly both ridiculous and seriously disproportionate.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool

Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm...

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 13d

Almost 40% of “Prevent” referrals to counter‑terrorism police are CHILDREN between 11 and 15 years old. Nearly HALF are Muslim or Asian.

Beyond exam pressure & teenage angst, a generation is growing up under surveillance because of the “Prevent” duty.

Act now: amn.st/63324AbAd6

every uk secondary school starter pack, includes snapchat a sausage roll, textbooks, a phone with a broken screen, a grafitti'd desk, a tie and "Getting reported to counter-terror police because the UK government is forcing your teacher to surveil you."

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 14d

🚨BREAKING: Last night the Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked by drones - again.

British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu was aboard one of the ships.

Despite these attacks the flotilla sails on, because the mission is too important.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 15d

The flotilla has already been attacked by drones. Now they're being branded as "terrorists" by the Israeli government. Mathilda explains why she's there, and why breaking the blockade matters.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 15d

Journalists like @mathildamall.bsky.social are aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Their mission is simple: deliver food, medicine and other essentials to Palestinians in occupied Gaza, who are still trapped under Israel’s unlawful blockade.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 15d

Migrants are being scapegoated.

It is a distraction from the real problems people are facing: homelessness, hunger and discrimination.

Poverty is a political choice, founded in inequality.

Instead of anti-migrant hate and blame, we need real action.

image is split into two parts: the reality says "Food banks warn demand has reached crisis point"

the distraction: "Reform's plan to scrap indefinite leave for migrants: Bold headlines, but scarce detail"

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: Alaa Abdel Fattah is out of prison!

After over a decade of wrongful imprisonment, he’s reunited with his family.

PM Keir Starmer needs to ensure he's able to travel back to the UK to be with his son.

Thank you to everyone who campaigned for his release 🕯️ ✊🏽

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 16d

We stand in solidarity with anyone defending human rights who is being pressured into silence by threats from the far-right or anti-migrant protesters.

The work of these individuals & orgs is vital in protecting the rights of people who need them most.

These attacks are unacceptable & must end.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 16d

A hate-driven agenda stoked by some in the media, social media companies and politicians has fuelled violence, intimidation and division.

The UK government must protect our human rights and the laws that underpin them - not undermine them.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters

At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety

www.theguardian.com

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 16d

The occupation and apartheid system must be ended, and justice must be delivered - anything less while Palestinians continue to be slaughtered by Israeli forces in an ongoing genocide is just empty words.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 16d

The UK Government must immediately halt UK arms exports, divest from arms companies that continue to sell arms to Israel, sanction Israeli officials implicated in crimes under international law and stop trade with settlements.

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