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Extremely important thread on how Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem aka Mannaaramudhu Ahnaf has been arrested and kept in custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act since May 15, 2020 in connection with 'Navarasam', a collection of poems he has published.
#SriLanka #FoE #THREAD 👇🏽
Speaking of: there is a specific, current, and particularly flabbergasting case of imprisonment to talk about. A poet who has been in prison for the last six months (without so much as being charged, of course) because his book of poems is being accused of being "extremist."
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කවි ලීවත්, පැසැලක ඉගැන්නුවත්, මාධ්ය හමුවක් තිබ්බත්, පාරක බෝඩ් ලෑල්ලක් හයි කළත්, නගරාධිපතිකම කෙරුවත්, මොනවා කළත් ත්රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත යටතේ තමයි අල්ලන්නේ. ආඥාදායක පාලනයක් කරා යන ගමනක හලාහල විස සහිත කෝකටත් තෛලය!
#SriLanka #PTA
Council chairman of the Karaichi Pradeshiya Sabha (in the northern Kilinochchi district) was threatened by Sri Lankan police to remove a local street sign which said Vettri Lane or to be detained under the Prevention of Terror Act (PTA).
#srilankastateterrorism
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ලියොන් ට්රොට්ස්කිගේ තවත් විශිෂ්ටතම කෘතියක් දැන් සිංහල බසින්! නොනවතින විප්ලවය: ප්රතිඵල හා සක්යතා (1906) wsws.org/si/articles/2021/04…
#books #SriLanka #Sinhala #Trotskyism #PermanentRevolution #translation
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Two years since Assange was seized from the Ecuadorian Embassy wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04…
#FreeAssange #WikiLeaks
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In Support of Richard Stallman : Normalizing Truth, Reason, Dialogue stallmansupport.org/index.ht…
#RMS #DefendRMS #ProtectRMS #RichardStallman #SoftwareFreedom #FSF #GNU
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Anti-Stallman Letter Locked... after people requested their names be removed lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/StallmanL…
#RichardStallman #RMS #DefendStallman #fsf #gnu #SoftwareFreedom
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Germany's Miniatur Wunderland has set a new world record for the longest melody played by a model train cnn.it/3s9yUYu
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This is why they try to silence Assange: A little girl on the street in a yellow dress, who would frequently go to collect candy from US troops, one day a tank goes past, and for an inexplicable reason, a shooter comes out of the US tank and blows her away | Julian Assange, 2010
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#SriLanka police caught producing bogus documents to cover up #torture #lka #PressFreedom #FreeMalika @RSF_inter @Irenekhan @AgnesCallamard @danbast @CPJAsia bit.ly/3d3Qn0c
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#SundayReads: To mark Baudelaire's bicentennial, Matthew Beaumont explores an oft-overlooked Baudelairean archetype, the convalescent... publicdomainreview.org/essay… #Baudelaire200 @Longreads #longform
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On the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the rendition of #JulianAssange from the Ecuador Embassy, and his entombment in the #UK supermax HMP Belmarsh, the legendary @johnpilger talks with @CredicoRandy:
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Poet #ahnafjazeem 's legal team today files a Fundamental Rights case [SCFR/3/2021/ON]against Secretary of Defence, IGP, Directors of TID & CID and AG, via online E-filing system, for unlawfully arresting and detaining the poet in breach of several of his fundamental rights.
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Poet #ahnafjazeem 's legal team today files a Fundamental Rights case [SCFR/3/2021/ON]against Secretary of Defence, IGP, Directors of TID & CID and AG, via online E-filing system, for unlawfully arresting and detaining the poet in breach of several of his fundamental rights.
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Sunday will mark 2 years of Julian's arbitrary incarceration in Belmarsh prison.
Enough is enough. Let him come home.
#DropTheCharges #FreeAssangeNOW
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Data from half a billion #LinkedIn users has been scraped and put online fortune.com/2021/04/08/linke…
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#Facebook says a breach that hit 533m is old news. Experts disagree theguardian.com/technology/2…
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🇱🇰 #SriLanka: @RSF_inter strongly condemns the arrest of photoreporter Mālika Abeykoon while he was covering a protest by health workers yesterday in #Colombo. He was assaulted by the police and has been remanded until 12 April. He must be released now! #JournalismIsNotACrime
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