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a woman speaks at a protest where people hold signs

The only choices left

Here’s what we’ve seen this week: Israeli parliamentarians celebrated as they passed a death-penalty law targeting Palestinians. They popped the champagne, and wore lapel pins

118 Days, Twenty Years Later

“Our hearts are filled with joy today…” These were the opening words of CPT’s statement on March 23, twenty years ago, when Harmeet Singh Sooden,

Tehran - The Fourth Day of War

Making sense of the contradictions

As the war with Iran continues and the death toll rises, many of us are trying to make sense of the contradictions it has exposed,

bombed tehran

Bombs don’t bring liberation

On Saturday morning, Israel and the United States began a large-scale bombing campaign against Iran. Within days the region has been pulled into a widening

Lesvos overview

The right kind of guests

Over my years living on a Greek island there were a few moments in which I felt penned in. In closed communities, consensus can form

The war for Iran

The USA is gearing up for war with Iran. I’ve anticipated this war all my life, but I didn’t expect to feel quite so disoriented

A surveillance photograph of a distressed boat

In the shipwreck’s wake

Ten days have passed since fifteen migrants died in a shipwreck off the coast of Chios, Greece. There are questions about the actions of the

A faded orange life jacket on the lesvos coast

Counting the toll

On 3 February, off the coast of Chios island, fifteen migrants drowned in the Aegean Sea. Once more, the Greek Coast Guard has questions to

A naval boat arriving into harbour in mytilene, greece

Solidarity is not a crime

After eight long years of injustice, solidarity won.  The court hearing in Lesvos, on January 15, was convened because twenty-four humanitarian volunteers, who rescued families

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