I'm hugely honoured to win the
@rorypecktrust
Sony Impact award. I wanted to use this platform to highlight the devastating price Palestinian journalists are paying in order to report on Israel's indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza. Since Oct 7th, 37 of them have been killed.
I cannot describe my happiness and relief. Karim has been released along with Gasser and Mohamed and is now home with his family. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us, Karim feels incredibly blessed and lucky to have you
#FreeEIPRstaff
@EIPR
Karim and me on his birthday 4 years ago. Karim turns 37 today but instead of celebrating with me he's in prison. Plz visit to find out what you can do to help secure his release.
@EIPR
#FreeKarimEnnarah
#freeEIPRstaff
Can anyone explain why the BBC refuses to use the term ‘Palestine’ but happily uses the term ‘Taiwan’ even though Taiwan is also a state not recognised by the British government? Just a small example of media bias raised by
@HindHassanNews
at
@frontlineclub
tonight
🧵At a time when media workers are being censored & fired 4 calling for a ceasefire I felt proud many of us
@FPALondon
awards spoke out about the unprecedented killing of journalists by
#Israel
& honoured the Gazan journalists still risking their lives
Next year, Karim was planning to move to London to live with me. I couldn’t wait to have him by my side. Now our life together has been crushed. I ask
@JoeBiden
to do the right thing and secure the release of my husband and his
@EIPR
colleagues.
Human rights activist Karim Ennarah is currently jailed in Egypt, along with several colleagues from
@EIPR
. Karim’s wife, documentarian
@Jeky_Kelly
, is urging for him to be released: “He’s the kind of person that Egypt should be building its future around, and not jailing.”
My husband Karim Ennarah has been arrested by State Security for his courageous work defending human rights in
#Egypt
Something we always feared but naively hoped we could escape. I know that all of his friends & colleagues will be doing everything they can do ensure his release
Breaking news:
Karim Ennarah, director of criminal justice at EIPR, arrested while on vacation in Dahab, South Sinai. He has been escorted by National Security officers to an undisclosed location around 2 p.m today.
#Egypt
#HumanRights
My latest doc AMERICAN MERCENARIES: KILLING IN YEMEN is out tomorrow. For the first time on camera, former US special forces describe how they were hired by the UAE to carry out assassinations in Yemen.
Reported by brilliant
@BBCNawal
19:05
@BBCArabic
22:35
@BBCTwo
An incredible 44,268 people have already signed the petition for Karim's release, I'm overwhelmed by the support, thank you
#FreeEIPRstaff
#Egypt
@UKChange
It was a privilege to write this tribute to Ali, our brave young friend who used his voice to seek climate justice in
#Iraq
.
Ali died days before he could challenge
@bp_plc
CEO on the dangers of gas flaring. Don’t let his death be in vain
Urgent: Former MP Mohamed Anwar Sadat informed
@eipr
that our colleagues Basheer, Karim and Gasser will be released tonight. A number of Egyptian news websites published similar news. Our defense team is still confirming details and procedures of their release.
#FreeEIPRstaff
What a night! Honoured to win Best Current Affairs International
@RTS_media
for Under Poisoned Skies. Hope it will help bring justice to the people of southern Iraq who still live in the shadow of the world’s most polluted oil fields, run by the world's richest oil companies.
Yesterday we heard the tragic news that Ali Hussein Jaloud has died, aged just 21.
Be sure Ali, your death will not be in vain. The greedy reign of fossil fuels will end.
I feel lucky to have known you and witnessed your generosity and bravery.
Rest in peace ❤️
كشف تحقيق نشره موقع «بي بي سي»، أمس، عن استخدام دولة الإمارات رجل أعمال إسرائيلي مجري لتدبير عمليات اغتيال ضد أعدائها السياسيين في اليمن منذ عام 2015، فيما نفت حكومة الإمارات كل ما جاء بالتقرير.
ونقل التحقيق عن القائد الثاني لشركة عسكرية أمريكية تُسمى «عمليات سبير»، إسحق جيلمور،
Very proud our
@BBCArabic
investigation ‘Under Poisoned Skies’ about the deadly impact of the oil giants’ pollution in
#Iraq
featured on tonight’s News at Ten. Thanks
@thehuwedwards
and team
Today marks a year since my husband Karim Ennarah was arrested in
#Egypt
as part of a brutal crackdown on his human rights work
@EIPR
. I’m so grateful to everyone who helped in the campaign to secure his release and that of his colleagues Gasser Abdel Razek & Mohammed Bashir.
Another new category - Emerging Talent: Factual
📺 Ashley Francis-Roy - Damilola: The Boy Next Door & The Real Eastenders
📺 Jessica Kelly - The Schools that Chain Boys
📺 Kandise Abiola - Terms & Conditions: A UK Drill Story
📺 Marian Mohamed - Defending Digga D
#BAFTATV
To hear how
@bp_plc
’s CEO responded to Ali’s grieving father at their annual shareholder meeting yesterday watch the
@BBCNews
at Ten’s report here.
Powerfully reported by
@OwenPinnell
with support from
@rosiepelican
@shpanda9
and others.
RIP Samer. As international journalists we should all be ashamed that Palestinian journalists continue to be sacrificed in such huge numbers - two months of indiscriminate bombing and their cameras are still pretty much our only means of seeing the truth.
It is with heavy hearts that we share the devastating news of the loss of our dedicated Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Dakka during the recent coverage in Gaza in an Israeli airstrike. His unwavering commitment to truth and storytelling has left an indelible mark on our team.
A film I shot two years ago in northern
#Syria
is finally out on BBC Two tonight. In The Face Of Terror tells the story of the hunt to expose
#ISIS
executioners, "the Beatles" through the families and friends of their victims.
@seanlangan2
#inthefaceofterror
#bbc2
A few weeks ago Karim and I spoke to Anushka Asthana
@theguardian
about the last 6 months, his imprisonment and the last 10 years in
#Egypt
. It's emotional to recount but am grateful to share our story and that of countless others.
"Their only crime has been to stand up for the dignity of Egyptians.
@EIPR
has for years worked tirelessly and bravely on the frontlines to protect and defend the most vulnerable"
Thank you Scarlett Johansson for shining a light on Karim's arrest
#FreeKarimEnnarah
#FreeEIPRstaff
"I'm in awe of the bravery of these men who continue their work to defend human rights at such a great personal cost."
Scarlett Johansson wishes Karim a happy birthday and sends her solidarity to
@EIPR
staff.
#FreeKarimEnnarah
#FreeEIPRstaff
Since Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power in 2013, journalists and human rights organisations have regularly been targeted by the authorities.
A moving appeal from
@CelineLST
whose human rights defender husband Ramy Shaath has been imprisoned by the Egyptian authorities for 19 months. It was very hard for me to handle Karim’s imprisonment for just a few weeks, I’m in awe of her strength. Plz sign the
@amnesty
petition.
600 jours de détention pour Ramy et un retour d'Egypte douloureux car à nouveau séparés. C'est pourquoi avec
@Amnesty
, je lance aujourd'hui une pétition internationale. Ensemble, demandons, plus haut et plus fort, la libération de Ramy !
#FreeRamyShaath
👉
The recent wave of arrests in Egypt of courageous human rights defenders from
@EIPR
is an outrage. The incoming administration must make it clear to Egypt and all countries that, once again, the United States will support democracy, not dictatorship.
We saw Gasser just now taken out of the prosecution office in a police transport van. The only thing he shouted from the narrow, barred van window was, 'Mariam! Say hello to the boys. I love you!'. Mariam wasn't allowed to see him.
His hair was shaven. He had a smile on his face
BP Whistleblower has come out w damning claims: gas flaring "just the start" of "appalling practices in Rumaila that wouldn't be acceptable in any of BP's operations nor uphold the international standard that BP is contracted to implement"
2/2 Two of the victims were a bride and groom, executed on their wedding day because the bride was wearing a white dress with her head uncovered. Her veil is still visible here.
#Syria
#ISIS
My husband Karim Ennarah is one of the
@EIPR
staff who has now been arrested as a result of this meeting. What action is Norway taking to secure their release?
#freeEIPRstaff
@yaralmurr
winner of the prestgious
@thomfound
award highlighted the incredible work of young journalists in Gaza such as
@byPlestia
*Bisan*
@azaizamotaz9
@Hind_Gaza
, not only did she humanise these journalists but she spoke about them as role models.
Honoured Under Poisoned Skies is up for an
@amnesty
Media Award tonight. This nomination is dedicated to Ali, who died last week of leukaemia aged just 21. Ali helped to reveal the deadly impact of gas flaring in Iraq incl. at BP’s Rumaila oilfield where he lived.
@OwenPinnell
Thrown out of
#Saudi
just for mentioning Loujain al-Hathloul and the female activists imprisoned in Saudi. Our new doc is airing again on
@BBCOne
on Tuesday next week. #السعودية
@MayaSaad1998
who dedicated her award to her friend and Lebanese
@Reuters
video journalist Issam Abdullah who was killed on the 13th of Oct while covering the southern border Lebanon. 3 Lebanese journalists have been killed in total since Oct 7th.
Breaking: Supreme State Security Prosecution informed
@EIPR
defense team a hearing has been scheduled for our leaders *tomorrow* Monday morning at the New Cairo court building
#freeEIPRstaff
The arrest of
@EIPR
's staff, Karim Ennarah & Mohammed Basheer, by security forces in Egypt is unacceptable.
We cannot stay silent as human rights defenders are targeted & detained.
Karim & Mohammed should be released immediately.
Me again. Tomorrow morning we’re back in court for one last
@eipr
staffer in jail. Our star gender specialist Patrick has been in pretrial detention for 10 months on same bogus terrorism charges. If you raise your voice for him today we might take a few days off
PM
@RishiSunak
had a unique opportunity to raise my husband's case during his visit to
#COP27
in Egypt but he neglected to do so. I am nevertheless so grateful to my MP
@rushanaraali
who continues to press for Karim's freedom.
I’m disappointed the Prime Minister didn’t directly raise the case of my constituent
@Jeky_Kelly
's husband, human rights activist Karim Ennarah, during his discussions with President Sisi at COP27.
“This film should be screened everywhere around the world where new oil and gas projects are being considered”. It was an honour to have
@Tzeporah
the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty speak at our
#COP27
screening of Under Poisoned Skies.
@fossiltreaty
#ClimateEmergency
@joshbakerstory
@saraobeidat
who paid tribute to the Roshdi Sarraj the Palestinain journalist who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 22, 2023 while trying to shield his wife and daughter from an Israeli air strike near their home.
A year ago Karim spent his birthday in prison, this year we're still separated because the fabricated charges against him and his
@EIPR
colleague still stand and he is under a travel ban... at least I managed to send him a bougainvillea🎈
A year since the ongoing security attack on the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights: The fabricated charges remain in place, along with the travel ban and the seizure of the funds of the three directors of EIPR, and the founder awaits sentencing today
I'm extremely grateful to Lord Ahmad
@tariqahmadbt
the Minster of North Africa, for sitting down with me and Rushanara Ali
@rushanaraali
to discuss how we can resolve Karim and his
@EIPR
colleagues' case.
We won best TV doc at the
@onewm
awards!
It's been a privilege to tell the stories of Ali Juloud & countless other young Iraqis whose lives have been tragically cut short by the oil industry's toxic pollution of their environment.
This is incredible news,
@EIPR
Researcher Patrick Zaki has been ordered to be released from detention in
#Egypt
after nearly 20 months in custody. His trial will continue in Feb 2022
#FreePatrickZaki
The hosts of
#COP27
doing what they do best. Between 2017 and 2020 nearly 1 million square metres of Cairo's already limited green spaces were destroyed.
I am incredibly disappointed that there seems to be no indication that
@trussliz
raised my husband Karim Ennarah and his
@EIPR
colleagues in her meeting with her Egyptian counterpart yesterday. We have been patiently waiting nearly two years for an opportunity like this.
Prior to launching the 1st Meeting of 🇪🇬 🇬🇧 Association Council, FM
#Shoukry
meets with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs Liz Truss to discuss bolstering bilateral relations between 🇪🇬&🇬🇧
@trussliz
@FCDOGovUK
1/2 Filming last week at a lesser known mass grave in Syria where ISIS is reported to have executed 1000s of civilians. No sign of any plans to exhume the bodies?
@Raqqa_SL
@DFRLab
#Syria
#ISIS
⏰ Next week Mon 13 - Thu 16
@Channel4
will be airing short films about 4 of our
#RoryPeckAwards
finalists at 7.55pm (GMT) each evening. 👀
Monday 13th November, catch Sony Impact Award finalist
@Jeky_Kelly
discussing her film Under Poisoned Skies.
Thank you
@rushanaraali
for raising Karim’s case and that of other
@EIPR
staff in commons this eve. Patrick Zaki is still in prison and Karim, Gasser & Mohammed have had their assets frozen.
#freeEIPRstaff
In my Adjournment Debate I raised the issue of the arrests of Egyptian human rights advocates, including Karim Ennarah, the husband of my constituent. The UK must take action against human rights abuses under the current Egyptian regime.
@EIPR
@Jeky_Kelly
We need to keep up the public pressure ahead of Karim and
#EIPR
staff's hearing tomorrow, see below for concrete steps you can take to help.
#FreeEIPRstaff
#FreeKarimEnnarah
***BREAKING:
@EIPR
Staff Hearing Bumped Up to Tomorrow, Mon. 23 Nov. @ 11:00AM Local Time***
While this is encouraging, word on the ground is that pressure must be intensified in the coming hours. Here's what you can do...
#FreeKarimEnnarah
#freeEIPRstaff
A personal update: nearly two years on and Karim is still trapped in Egypt under a travel ban and asset freeze. I hope next week will bring some change.
UPDATE: Two years on, Karim is still trapped in Egypt, living under an unlawful travel ban and asset freeze. He is unable to leave Egypt to be with
@Jeky_Kelly
in the UK, he can't access money or jobs, and they are unable to plan any kind of future together.
#FreeKarimEnnarah
"Director Jess Kelly’s film makes for horrendous but necessary viewing". A preview by the
@FT
of our film 'India's Rape Scandal' out tomorrow night - 10pm on Channel 4.
@ramitanavai
#rape
#India
Yesterday we were lucky enough to screen our film “Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market” at the UN. Very grateful to the 200+ people who attended and to
@ubhoola62
and
@amolmehra
who shared the panel with
@muskhalili
and me... am still reeling.
#UNForumBHR
#change
We're so honoured that Under Poisoned Skies won at the
@DIGawards
in Italy this weekend. The judges said it's an "investigative film with heart, beautifully shot and provides a humanising portrait of the effected community without reducing them to victims" and that means a lot <3
Tomorrow marks a year since Patrick got arrested at Cairo Airport. A year of absolute agony has passed and a second year is about to start while Patrick remains in prison.
#FreePatrick
A bit bowled over that our
@C4Dispatches
India’s Rape Scandal has been chosen by critics as a top 10 TV programme of 2021 alongside some absolute genius TV (ehem… White Lotus!) Thank you
@ObsNewReview
@babsellen
We fully back
@UNHumanRights
statement below. As
@antonioguterres
has said before, there should be no prisoners of conscience in the 21st century. No one should be arrested for having an political opinion."
Look out for this
@hrw
report tomorrow which gives a profound insight into the heartbreaking and life destroying impacts of travel bans which are being used against members of civil society in
#Egypt
including my husband Karim and four of his colleagues from
@EIPR
Tomorrow morning, FairSquare and
@hrw
are jointly publishing research into the pernicious impact of arbitrary travel bans on Egyptian civil society. The bans
allow Egypt to silently punish critics without fear of international attention. Get in touch for more information.
Here's the full film in Arabic.
For the first time, American mercenaries from Spear Operations Group (founded by Israeli-Hungarian security contractor Abraham Golan) speak on camera about the assassinations they carried out in Yemen under the auspices of the UAE.
لأول مرة، يتحدث مرتزقة من مجموعة عمليات "سبير" أمام الكاميرا عن عمليات الاغتيال التي نفذوها في اليمن تحت رعاية الإمارات.
لمشاهدة الفيلم كاملاً من خلال الرابط التالي على قناة بي بي سي على يوتيوب:
Thank you Greta for sharing Ali’s story. Activists in
#Iraq
have to be incredibly brave to criticise the oil industry, so it’s vital that voices like yours are used to amplify their struggle.
“Cancer became just like a flu…”
Ali, a young man from Iraq who lived on a
@bp_plc
oil field, died of leukaemia last Friday.
His father challenged BP at its AGM, demanding an end to its cancer-causing pollution.
TIMEP joins more than 50 organizations in expressing solidarity with
@EIPR
and calling for the immediate and unconditional release of its detained staff Karim Ennarah, Mohammed Basheer, and Gasser Abdel-Razek
Tonight - just a few tickets left! Q&A with me, producer extraordinaire
@OwenPinnell
, multinational corporations litigation solicitor
@Liberty_Bridge
, leading air pollution scientist, professor Frank Kelly and hosted by the brilliant
@BBCNawal
@frontlineclub
Proud of our film, UNDERCOVER IN THE SCHOOLS THAT CHAIN BOYS, which has been shortlisted for a Grierson award in the current affairs category, which honours outstanding investigative journalism, alongside some stellar competition
Humbled by the many peers & MPs who signed our letter urging the UK government to take action against the baseless terrorism charges still standing against my husband Karim Ennarah & his
@EIPR
colleagues in
#Egypt
. Karim hasn’t been allowed to leave the country since his release
Thank you
#GriersonAwards
still chuffed with our commendation - "This extraordinary piece of filmmaking truly shocked the judges... A prime example of powerful undercover documentary making with great access and determination to hold those responsible to account."
1/4 Last time I saw Ali (left) we were on our way to present Under Poisoned Skies at
#COP27
. We didn’t know it then but his
#Cancer
had relapsed. He now urgently need treatment outside
#Iraq
. Please share or donate if you can
In Athens 2 years ago I was filming a documentary with
@StaceyDooley
when 2 Pakistani migrants tried to hang themselves, I'm ashamed that we are allowing these kinds of tragedies to continue
The EU in
#Egypt
has denounced the arrests of
@EIPR
staff Karim Ennarah, Gasser Abed-Rezk and Mohammed Basheer and highlighted the fact that
#EIPR
have always operated in full transparency
#FreeEIPRstaff
اعتقال أعضاء من المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية يمثل مصدر قلق كبير نقله الاتحاد الأوروبي للسلطات المصرية. تقدم
@EIPR
خدمات مهمة للمصريين من خلال تعزيز الحقوق والحريات؛ حيث تعمل بشفافية كاملة. احترام حقوق الإنسان جزء رئيسي في العلاقات بين 🇪🇬🇪🇺 - المتحدث باسم الاتحاد الأوروبي
Thank you
@Da_Skwid
for momentarily bringing back to life the brave journalists unlawfully killed since Oct 7th. 88% of the 42 journalists killed were Palestinian.
Mohammed Abu Hatab
1 of 42 journalists killed in
#Gaza
#Israel
Journalist and correspondent for the Palestinian Authority-funded broadcaster Palestine TV, he was killed along 11 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
For all those at
#COP27
don't miss this exclusive Q&A with Ali Hussein Juloud, the young protagonist of
@BBCArabic
's incendiary investigation, Under Poisoned Skies, who has traveled from Basra to speak out about the deadly impact of air pollution from Iraq's
#FossilFuels
industry
Extremely honoured the World Health Organisation will be hosting our 3rd
#cop27
screening & that
@DrMariaNeira
will be joining our panel discussion on the toxic impact of air pollution from
#FossilFuels
🔔 Today 13:00 to 14:00
@WHO
pavilion blue zone
#energy
#ClimateCrisis
So pleased our film "Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market" has been nominated for "Investigation of the Year" at the
@BBCNews
awards. Just one of three noms for
@BBCArabic
. Well done top team
Super proud to share that
@BBCArabic
documentaries team has received 3 nominations for
@bbcnews
awards “Investigation of the Year” category (out of 5!)
After a four hour investigation (Karim is talkative) Supreme State Security have accused Karim of funding and belonging to a terrorist organisation. Totally baseless accusations but that are sadly very often levelled at human rights defenders in
#Egypt
#freeEIPRstaff
عاجل:
بعد تحقيق استمر ٤ ساعات نيابة أمن الدولة العليا تأمر بحبس كريم عنارة مدير العدالة الجنائية بالمبادرة المصرية ١٥ يوماً على ذمة التحقيق في القضية ٨٥٥ لسنة ٢٠٢٠ #مصر #حقوق_الإنسان
Beyond ecstatic for
@hossambahgat
and everyone else exonerated in Case 173. After 13 yrs under criminal investigation and 8 years of travel ban and asset freeze.
Hoping for the same for my husband
@Kennarah
and
@gassur
who've been on a travel ban for more than 3 years on trumped
🧵”Insufficient evidence”. After 13 years under criminal investigation for my human rights work as head of
@eipr
, 8 years under a travel ban and a freeze on my assets and only bank account without trial, facing up to 25 years in prison, l and other colleagues are exonerated /1
“As you can see so clearly from this brave journalism, fossil fuels are killing us.” Thank you
@DrMariaNeira
for speaking so passionately about the need to overcome our addiction to
#FossilFuels
during today’s
@WHO
screening of Under Poisoned Skies
#COP27