#freedom from torture

[cripple-woe]

Quick reminder to those in the uk that the refugee organisation “FREEDOM FROM TORTURE” can and do send out free packs of stickers / postcards to help you identify yourself/your business/etc as a refugee rights supporter.

Please consider it, with the new deportation discussion and the generally increasingly negative response to refugeesnow more than ever, they will need our support.

those of us who are registered citizens need to vote and speak out about this problem. We are the people who have the right to vote, we are the people with the keys to change.

[tweetingukpolitics]

[cycas]

You can sign Joan Salter's open letter to Suella Braverman here. Or find out more about Freedom from Torture.

It's nice to see this going around on Tumblr.

The Holocaust survivor introduced herself as someone forced to flee Belgium – the country where she was born – in 1943 and travel “across war-torn Europe and dangerous seas” before coming to the UK in 1947.

“Now, when I hear you using words against refugees like ‘swarms’ and an ‘invasion’, I am reminded of the language used to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family, and millions of others.

Why do you find the need to use that kind of language?”

Ms Braverman responded by saying she “won’t apologise for the language that I’ve used” to “demonstrate the scale of the problem” around immigration.

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[Context, with thanks to @yondamoegi for finding me the post.]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Shackled and whipped with canes: Israel uncovers 'thousands of hours' of sickening footage showing Hamas interrogators torturing innocent Palestinians

By: Natalie Lisbona

Published: Nov 10, 2024

Israel's military says it has discovered thousands of hours of sickening footage showing Hamas interrogators torturing innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The harrowing videos show male prisoners with sacks over their heads, chained to floors and ceilings in painful positions.

Men writhe in agony as they are beaten with sticks on the soles of their feet.

In one distressing clip, a hooded man appears to be screaming and remonstrating with his captor.

The horrifying incidents appear to have been filmed inadvertently by CCTV cameras inside a Hamas military base in northern Gaza raided by Israeli troops earlier this year.

[ The harrowing videos show male prisoners with sacks over their heads, chained to floors and ceilings in painful positions ]

[ Men writhe in agony as they are beaten with sticks on the soles of their feet ]

The footage was said to have been discovered on computers seized from the abandoned compound inside the Jabalia refugee camp. It is unclear why the men were being held.

But human rights experts have previously warned that innocent Palestinians have been kidnapped from their homes and tortured by Hamas thugs who have ruled Gaza with an iron rod since 2007.

Gay men and adulterers are among those who have been tortured by Hamas, along with political opponents and anyone accused of collaborating with Israel.

A time stamp in the corner of the footage suggests the torture took place between 2018 and 2020.

Often, the guards appear casually at ease, chatting as the abuse unfolds.

One interrogator reclines on a chair, with his arms folded behind his head, in front of a chained-up prisoner hanging from the ceiling by his arms.

Another film features a man, with a red sack over his head, chained up so awkwardly he can just about place one foot on the floor. One captor later appears to brutally choke the man.

A senior Israeli military source told The Mail on Sunday: 'The IDF found these CCTV images in March. It took months to go through them all.' It has not been possible for the videos to be independently verified but human rights groups have long warned of abuses by Hamas against civilians in Gaza. Amnesty International published a 44-page report detailing a brutal campaign of abduction, torture and killings by Hamas against its own people following the last Israel-Hamas war in 2014.

[ Mr Howidy, an accountant who later fled Gaza, said: 'People outside of Gaza call Hamas freedom fighters when they are killing innocent Palestinians for nothing' ]

Many were accused of collaborating with Israel. Hamas has also tortured and killed gay men in Gaza, where homosexuality is against the law.

Hundreds of gay men risked their lives to cross over the border to Israel or Egypt before the most recent conflict.

One, Abdul, previously told Israeli media how he lived in fear in Gaza after Hamas discovered he was gay. He was tortured repeatedly before he fled to Egypt.

In a chilling account that matches up with the torture captured in the footage found by the IDF, he told i24News: 'They put me in a tiny room. They wouldn't let me sleep or go to the bathroom inside. There was no food.

'They would torture me so badly. Sometimes, they would tie my feet up and beat them with a stick. After that, every few years, they would arrest me and torture me in the same way.

'They made me swear on the Koran that I won't be gay again.'

Last night another Hamas torture victim, Hamza Howidy, 27, told The Mail on Sunday how he was detained for protesting against the regime in Gaza.

'They would torture you until you broke and say whatever it is they wanted,' he said. 'I could hear my fellow protesters scream in the next room.'

Mr Howidy, an accountant who later fled Gaza, said he believed he was held in western Jabalia in 2019 but it is unknown if he appears in the footage.

He said: 'Hamas controls everything. They confiscated my laptop and had issues with my conversations with my girlfriend.

'Collaborating with Israel would warrant a severe punishment and homosexuality would result in a death sentence.' Mr Howidy said one man was detained for three years and tortured three times a week. 'He had objects inserted into him,' he added. 'One man was given electric shocks for two years before his innocence was eventually discovered.

'The first thing he did was shoot dead the Hamas officer who reported him – his uncle.

'You would never get a lawyer and your family would have no idea what happened to you. I was lucky because my family paid a price for me. I managed to leave for Europe via the Egyptian border in September last year, which cost a fortune, but my family there were told that should I return I'd be a dead man walking. Luckily I got them safe passage too.'

He added: 'You just cannot tell who is a Hamas snitch or not.

'One friend of mine was forced to divorce his wife when he got caught for something. There is a growing hatred towards Hamas now, especially after the war, but because Hamas controls the media and people are afraid, we hardly hear of it.

'People outside of Gaza call Hamas freedom fighters when they are killing innocent Palestinians for nothing. Hamas is holding the people of Gaza hostage.'

A former Israeli intelligence officer, known as Guy C, told this newspaper that Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by the IDF last month, was 'obsessed with finding collaborators and held thousands against their will'.

He added: 'They have been known to melt plastic over skin, electric cables on their body.

'Some are electrocuted on electricity pylons or dragged on a chain from a vehicle until they die.

'Even worse, they won't allow the families a proper burial, and the bodies have a sign on saying they were collaborating.'

Palestinian Ahmed Fouad Alkharib, who is now based in the US and is a fellow at the Atlantic Council think- tank, said: 'Extreme torture has been a fundamental component of Hamas' governance strategy to ensure they deter people and instil fear in those who speak out.'

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Pro-Hamas "Free Palestine" and "Queers for Palestine" idiots don't care. If they did, they'd be as eager for Israel to eradicate Hamas and free the population from these sadistic terrorist demons as all the normies. But they aren't.

They care about hating Jews and the West. That's it. That's everything you need to know.

[redstrewn]

If leander "good" end is him dying (breaking free from his fucked up cycle), then imagining MC having to mourn and live on without him

[cumtotheuniverse]

𝑴𝒚 𝑽𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑹𝒂𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒆

[swordmaid]

ouuuuu thinking abt hag romance after shri’iia’s identity reveal aka part where they visit the lolth drow cache and she suddenly starts violently heaving then proceed to vomit out spiders - a taste of lolth’s wrath - and I think she would’ve been punished even more severely (like turned into a drider) without the tadpole protecting her. and then shri’iia is back on flight or fight mode the whole time they’re in the underdark bc she’s paranoid over what lolth could do next and the reaction from the Others. the punishment of a caught lie is usually death from her experience, and as the person who would be the one enacting said punishments, her paranoia is back to being in an All Time High that she almost feels like she’s back home again. and it’s nice kind of! I think at one point shri’iia would be tempted to just run off with the artifact but where would she go? so she doesn’t. she just follows the herd and stews in her own paranoia, waiting in anticipation for another wave of lolth’s fury and/or these people turning on her - which never happens - the most they do is make her say who she really is and share what she knows - which she does. and that reveal ^ really puts a dent on astarion’s initial plan like is he supposed to seduce someone else now bc this one had been lying about herself?? but then he’s been watching her in every fight they’ve been in and she IS very strong btw, very capable paladin who’s able to smite with ease, she is still an asset, and the fact that no one really trusts her as much bc of that reveal he’s like hrmm. CAN work with this. not to mention that she was the one who trusted him first when he revealed he was a vampire so he can return the favour, and who cares if he manipulates her feelings in the process and makes it feel like he’s the only person she can now trust now that she’s been caught red handed (amateur mistake btw, as a fellow charlatan he’s tsking) what matters is that HE’S returning the favour! and his plan is still going. and she’s relatively strong, maybe her divine smites can work against cazador - he’d love to see his smarmy face burnt off by divine light - that prospect is appealing enough that he can ignore what happened, and that she was a lolth stan, and that she’s been lying bc who else isn’t? what matters is that his plan works and he has someone by his side to use. so he DOES manipulate her and charm her and woo her, give her that consolation she needs because no one is on her side currently. and in shri’iia’s part she just wants a distraction bc she’s scared out of her wits currently she does not even care that she’s being used - welcomes that actually since it’s familiar to her, so she does keep sleeping with him, and she generally sticks close to him now bc she doesn’t know the others will React. for the most part I think they’re just peeved and more alarmed over the vomiting out spiders part than the fact that she’s a lolth cultist - like wow not another person lying about themselves (cough shadowheart) - and I think they have bigger problems to worry about, like turning into a mindflayer for example, and it’s water under the bridge just as long as she doesn’t lie to them anymore. but shri’iia doesn’t get that ofc now she feels the need to overtly compensate her usefulness bc if she’s not useful then she’s not good for anything, and she’ll be culled (or so she believes).

[blood-loving-leech]

“in the name of the slave owners honor, despite having been provoked and so many (white men) murdered, the slave owners did not even torture a single slave, they just put them to an easy death (shot them)”

oh sure the slave owners were good honorable people because they didn’t even torture the slaves when they rebelled, they just killed them! like, i think that’s BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS to not torture them?? they were ENSLAVED and wanted to be free, it doesn’t make you a good person for not torturing them? you were inherently a bad person when you bought and owned another human being???

“oh but they killed (white) people and their kids and burned their houses down! they would have deserved torture!” uh, no?? those white people kidnapped them AND their children, forced them to work for nothing, raped, beat, and killed them for human mistakes i think they were totally justified in wanting freedom and killing their captors

[backpackingspace]

friendly reminder that caterina probably has more warrants with clave than magnus does. The difference between hers and magnus's crimes is that the clave knows magnus did that shit they just can't do shit about it and with caterina they know someone did them but they don't know who the fuck it was

[carebooks]

makes me kind of sad that no one’s made a proper multifemale edit of taylor’s who’s afraid of little old me? bc, okay look, the song is filled with so much female rage that when i see people using it for edits for male characters, and it’s male characters that i like or love don’t get me wrong, it’s like they’re not getting what the song is about. it feels weird seeing it paired to anything other than women and what we’ve struggled with.

[dawnlitbouquet]

I've been hunkering down in Gundam Seed JP Twitter and it has been extremely enlightening, especially since I haven't rewatched the main series in a while. Things I forgot, things I actually remember but see in a new light...

Some people love/hate the new movie on there, but I've seeing a lot of people find it good - because it makes the point that 'Kira didn't actually heal from the events of Gundam Seed, and now that he's back on the battlefield without Lacus his sanity is hanging by a thin thread'.

A bunch of people pulling receipts on the discriminatory behaviours/opinions even Kira's friends had possessed unconsciously (in Sai's case, kind of... A bit more blatantly than most back when Kira didn't even pull shit, which had me hissing through my teeth...), the things that isolated Kira into thinking he has to handle things on his own (Tolle's death when he tried fighting by his side, for example), a comparison of behaviours between Murrue who gave him a bow of respect vs his friends who tell him 'we'll distract ZAFT as EA soldiers while you're on the refugee shuttle!' oblivious to the actual dangers because they were only ever on the bridge (haha,,,,, the fact this saved them even if it backed Kira into a corner,,,,,,,, ffffffuck)

Back to the movie, I've seen some mixed reactions about the second half, but!!! I'm generally seeing a lot of people looking at first half Kira and going 'my sad baby. my poor meow meow. get whumped.'

Again, this is all JP twitter, not EN, and definitely not the actual movie - but seeing people's reactions have been an entertaining ride.

[quietwingsinthesky]

Omg sorry for coming into your inbox like this but I have Thoughts about AU Lucifer. As in, the one AU Michael killed. I kind of read into AU Michael's bravado about killing Lucifer as covering over extreme guilt and pain (his refering to him as 'my Lucifer' when talking to Cas broke my fucking heart), and I just like, wonder how that fight went. Was this Lucifer full of rage and pain and wanted to kill Michael and failed? Or was he despairing and did he let Michael do it? It sounds like it was a pretty fierce fight, given that Michael said he tore him apart in the sky, but just, ugh my God, I have such thoughts about them and everything with the alternate universe that could have been explored so much more. Ugh I'm sorry

god, yeah. the potential that was squandered with au!michael. look, i know this might be an idea that appeals only to me, but i do think he should have tried to lobotomize lucifer when he had him captured in a futile attempt to remake his own lucifer that he'd killed. and i think he still should have talked about killing his lucifer like he's proud of it, like he enjoyed tearing him apart, but fuck, imagine him saying stuff like that while we know he's literally trying to torture/mindfuck the main universe lucifer into being his perfect little brother again.

sorry lmao everything about any version of michael with me comes back to 'i think he should be contradicting everything he does and says all the time because he has Serious Damage going on' You know, he couldn't have his lucifer, because his lucifer had to die, had to be killed by michael, but there was a point in which lucifer was good and obedient enough that michael could love him without fear of losing him, and if he could just get that lucifer back, everything will be Fine.

(and obviously this wouldn't work. but it would be fantastic lucifer whump, too, which is always a benefit. to me :3)

[odysseys-blood]

the characters in distortion detective surround the idea of loyalty. therefore distortion detective is about dogs.

[niamarmoshanightdragonflyarchive]

Hi! I hope you're doing ok i haven't seen you around a lot n hope things are going ok for you!! ❤️

HI! Thank you for your consideration haha! I just couldn't access to this blog until i realise that i had a key in my phone (clown music intensify) So after a year and a half i finally here lmao. Funny thing that I already choose to finally change my silly nickname and now i dunno what to do maybe change it here and delete new blog because can't deny - there're too much shit and organisation i did is good and do it again is nauseous.

And, well, after my country invaded Ukraine things always are not ok honestly, so I hope whoever see this post if you can - donate to United24 or help ukrainians refuges in local areas. The war is still going and help is always needed. If not for army but humanitarian is always good option.