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📸🏔️While vacationing down south last week, I still joined European Forum Alpbach remotely via a short video—speaking to young journalists about surveillance, threats to Hungarian reporters and our #PegasusProject exposing spyware abuses. Thanks @f_grillmeier for the opportunity.
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
"The witnesses, who included two people from Syria, two from Egypt and two from Sudan, said five women and three children were among those who fell overboard. They said the sea was rough and the winds strong. The seventh survivor was an eight-year-old boy from Syria."
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
Eines der berührendsten Interviews, die ich je gelesen habe. Wie man die Hölle überlebt. Weshalb ein Christ und Pazifist zur Waffe greift. Was in der Ukraine auf dem Spiel steht. Und weshalb es falsch ist, sie zu einem "Frieden" um jeden Preis zu drängen. zeit.de/2025/01/maksym-butke…
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
"Meanwhile the father of a two-week-old Palestinian girl has told the BBC how his baby daughter froze to death in a tent in Gaza - the third child in a week to die in similar conditions."
Five Gaza journalists killed in Israeli strike bbc.in/409sFrB
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
It's been two weeks since the Assad regime fell, and in Syria, the scale and pace of the change has been dizzying. Here's a thread of some of our @washingtonpost coverage: 🧵
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Es ist zutiefst verstörend, wie selektives Lesen + die beliebige Auslegung von Fakten & Zeugenschaft in diesem Jahr Demokratien ins Wanken gebracht hat. Ob durch gezielte Missinformationskampagnen, bei Terror, Klimapolitik, Migration & Flucht, oder der Aufarbeitung v Verbrechen.
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Israel has normalized the bombing of humanitarian zones in Gaza. Places where it told people they would be safe. haaretz.com/israel-news/2024…
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Abdul Karim Mustafa, working as Health Promotion Officer with MSF in northwest Syria says, people are not returning to their homes, as they are destroyed:
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This is really big:
❗MSF has been forced to end operations on our rescue vessel, Geo Barents, due to restrictive Italian laws and policies. Since June 2021, the ship saved 12,675 lives in the Central Mediterranean.
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
Front covers of @washingtonpost + @El_Universal_Mx featuring our collaborative @LHreports investigation Over a year, we collected & analyzed data on drowning deaths along Texas' stretch of the US/Mexico border on the Rio Grande 1/
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
Frankly, I feel ashamed publishing this report on a subject journalists have ethically damaged by exploiting detainees for dramatic shots. I hope our @ARTEfr piece this evening reflects balance, preserving the dignity of those tortured without pushing them into more pain.
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
Critiquing foreign press is & has always been absolutely legitimate: Syrian journalists kept working & dying through the darkest hours of the war, in one of the deadliest countries for media workers. They should very much be at the forefront of international reporting today.
To those blaming my critique of foreign press work in #Syria fearing “aiding Assad’s narrative”: #Assad no longer benefits, he’s gone and WE ARE FREE. We must uphold ethical journalism and honor the efforts of those who worked 14 years in one of the world’s most dangerous places.
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Ärzte ohne Grenzen stellt den Betrieb des Rettungsschiffes #GeoBarents ein. Seit 2021 rettete das Schiff über 12.000 Menschen aus Seenot. "Die italienische Gesetzgebung hat es unmöglich gemacht, die Arbeit wie bisher fortzusetzen," schreibt MSF.
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Why a rhetoric of a constant "shock-campaign" matters: "The push by some (right-wing) militia groups to help Donald #Trump reflects how one of his signature policy proposals mirrors ideas that once existed solely on the fringes of American politics." nytimes.com/2024/12/11/us/po…
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
I've seen this in person! So many people out doing this.
Syrians are eager to rebuild their homeland with unity, love, and resilience. This beautiful video from Cross Scout shows volunteers cleaning the streets of Damascus yesterday—a true testament to better future 💚
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Die Zeugenschaft über die horrende Folter und den Tod in den Gefängnissen des Assad-Regimes werden vor allem die Angehörigen, aber auch die Weltgemeinschaft noch lange beschäftigen. Auch die EU wird sich mit Fragen der Verantwortung beim Thema #Pushbacks etwa konfrontiert sehen:
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Franziska Grillmeier retweeted
Hospitals are posting photos of the bodies they have so families can find their loved ones. So much heartbreak. For most families, the answers they have been yearning for never came.
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