Sedition means working to overthrow an established legal order. So we should be thinking of #HongKong authorities carrying out “seditious” activities by arresting booksellers, which is no crime under the #ICCPR (ratified in 1996, still in force). www.msn.com/en-au/news/a...
#HongKong politicians and law enforcement stoop to new lows, targeting books and booksellers (see: #GuiMinhai and others, 2015, Causeway Bay Books).
Key point: moves like these are in stark tension with #HongKong's obligations under #ICCPR.
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⬛️⬜️In 2025, the UN criticised Spain for failing to implement previous #ICCPR recommendations on #Catalonia, and showed concern over police violence, the rise of hate speech against Catalans and the chilling effect of #Catalangate on fundamental rights. int.assemblea.cat/news/un-huma...
⬛️⬜️#Onthisday, 50 years ago, the #ICCPR entered into force.
Despite ratifying it in April 1977, Spain continues disregarding the Covenant and violating the rights of the Catalan people.
Let's not forget: Art. 1 affirms that "all peoples have the right of self-determination".
4/Fun fact: Over my 8 years on the Human Rights Committee, I always carried in my jacket a pocket version of the #ICCPR. No matter what was the occasion, one always found something new when faced with new questions. Here's a general lesson: real facts give life to the interpretation of a treaty text
Happy birthday, #ICCPR which entered into force 50 years ago. Almost 90% of states have ratified it, and a clear majority also the optional protocol allowing individual complaints. This is the one international treaty that I have worked most hours on, as academic, practitioner and treaty body member
#ICCPR - Art. 1
1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. [...] freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
#Catalonia needs a dependable transportation network. Spain hurts us.🤕
www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...
Someday soon #Catalonia will join you.
We too want to exercise our basic human right to self-determination, engraved in Art. 1 of the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
This year #ICCPR celebrates its 50th anniversary of entry into force:
www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...
🇺🇳#HumanRights Committee Vice Chair Hélène Tigroudja's comments on transnational repression #TNR:
👉#TNR violates the right to life, the prohibition of torture and ill treatment, the access to justice, and the right to legal personality under the #ICCPR.
EJELS just published this paper by the eminent Jon Kåre Skiple and myself:
"Bringing Rights Back Home? How Judges Handle Multilayered Constitutional and International Human Rights Laws on the Supreme Court of Norway"
https://publicera.kb.se/ejels/article/view/55649
#OpenAccess […]
Pakistan: Rights group alleges two farmers extrajudicially killed in Balochistan yespunjab.com?p=220520
#Balochistan #PakistanNews #HumanRights #EnforcedDisappearances #ExtrajudicialKillings #Quetta #BalochYakjehtiCommittee #UNHumanRights #ICCPR #StopViolence #SouthAsia #BreakingNews
3️⃣ #France | We identified possible violations of articles 21 and 22 of the ICCPR, as well as the right to take part in public affairs. #ICCPR #HumanRights
🆕#联合国 人权高专 @volker_turk 就 #香港 火灾向受害者表示声援，并呼吁保障公民空间：
➡️敦促当局撤销对寻求问责者在安全法下的指控
➡️呼吁废除或至少大幅修改安全法中相关条款，使其完全符合 #ICCPR 的要求
➡️对选举改革表示关切
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Securitate #DINA #NKVD #Gestapo #Stasi.
This is happening in what was once a 'beacon for democracy' and civil rights.
The Founding Fathers must be rotating in their graves!
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention."
#ICCPR, Art. 9.
Bill of Rights, Fourth Amendment.
Discrimination based on skin color violates the right to equality, dignity, and equal protection under Articles 1, 2, 7 of the #UDHR; Articles 2,26 of the #ICCPR; and under U.S. law, it breaches the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the 14th Amendment, and 42 U.S.C. §1981. #HumanRights
#UDHR Articles Violated: 1, 3, 5
#ICCPR Articles Violated: 2(1), 6(1), 7, 27
#HumanRights
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights #ICCPR
#Oman just joined* it by a Royal decree 🇴🇲
Egregious violation of human rights.
#UDHR Articles Violated: 3, 5, 9, 12, 16(3), 17
#ICCPR Articles Violated: 6(1), 7, 9(1), 17(1), 23(1)
#HumanRights #Justice #ICE
#UDHR Articles Violated: 3,5,7,9,25; #ICCPR Articles Violated: 7,9,10.
#HumanRights
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"From the start this prosecution -- persecution -- has been abt Lai's and #AppleDaily's criticism of the 🇨🇳govt, not abt violations of law. If any have been broken it's by #HK auth. and of #ICCPR, which guarantees #FreedomOfExpression," says @sophiedrich.bsky.social, Co-ED of @chrdnet.bsky.social.
Pak forces behind 121 killings, 785 forcible disappearances in Balochistan this year: Report yespunjab.com?p=148641
#Balochistan #HumanRights #EnforcedDisappearances #ExtrajudicialKillings #BalochLivesMatter #PakistanViolations #DeathSquads #InternationalJustice #ICCPR #StopStateTerror
Yet another turn away from #ruleoflaw, including obligations under #ICCPR, by #HongKong authorities.
hongkongfp.com/2025/07/23/g...
'.....2019 මැයි 17 වන දින හසලක පොලිස් වසම තුළ ධර්ම චක්රයේ නිරූපණයක් ලෙස ‘වැරදි’ ලෙස අර්ථකථනය කරන ලද ‘නැවක සුක්කානමක’ රුවක් සහිත ඇඳුමක් ඇඳ සිටියේ යැයි පවසමින් 47 හැවිරිදි අබ්දුල් රහීම් මසාහිනා අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමත්, රඳවා තබා ගැනීමත් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් සහ පුද්ගලික නිදහස පිළිබඳ ගැඹුරු..' Read in full: Read in full: vikalpa.org/artic… #srilanka #ICCPR #Muslims #Justice
Male-only conscription discriminates against men, breaches Art. 26 and Art. 4.1 #ICCPR, is a human rights violation, gender-based violence and gender persecution, a crime against humanity. See bit.ly/45Mk2UV
Male-only conscription discriminates against men, breaches Art. 26 and Art. 4.1 #ICCPR, is a human rights violation, gender-based violence and gender persecution, a crime against humanity. See bit.ly/45Mk2UV
Male-only conscription discriminates against men, breaches Art. 26 and Art. 4.1 #ICCPR, is a human rights violation, gender-based violence and gender persecution, a crime against humanity. See bit.ly/45Mk2UV
Male-only conscription discriminates against men, breaches Art. 26 and Art. 4.1 #ICCPR, is a human rights violation, gender-based violence and gender persecution, a crime against humanity. See bit.ly/45Mk2UV
Male-only conscription discriminates against men, breaches Art. 26 and Art. 4.1 #ICCPR, is a human rights violation, gender-based violence and gender persecution, a crime against humanity. See bit.ly/45Mk2UV
Male-only conscription discriminates against men, breaches Art. 26 and Art. 4.1 #ICCPR, is a human rights violation, gender-based violence and gender persecution, a crime against humanity. See bit.ly/45Mk2UV
Human Rights Violations: #UDHR Articles: 5, 9, 10, 18, 25 #ICCPR Articles: 6, 7, 10(1), 14, 18
#HumanRights
