FC Garvey
@fcgarv.bsky.social
UK Advocacy for Reporters Without Borders.
Posting about politics, press freedoms & human rights - powered by an excessive amount of coffee. Former Caabu, former OSINT-er, former Cantab. Views are mine alone.
Posting about politics, press freedoms & human rights - powered by an excessive amount of coffee. Former Caabu, former OSINT-er, former Cantab. Views are mine alone.
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FC Garvey
@fcgarv.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I have joined the X-odus!
I’m here to post about human rights and press freedoms… and on occasion, my cat. Here’s to new connections and a social media experience that isn’t just a vanity project!
I’m here to post about human rights and press freedoms… and on occasion, my cat. Here’s to new connections and a social media experience that isn’t just a vanity project!
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Today marks 4 years since Apple Daily was forcibly shut down in Hong Kong. Its founder, British citizen Jimmy Lai, has spent over 1,600 days in solitary confinement.
I was proud to receive a special edition from Reporters Without Borders honouring the 7 jailed journalists.
I was proud to receive a special edition from Reporters Without Borders honouring the 7 jailed journalists.
June 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today marks 4 years since Apple Daily was forcibly shut down in Hong Kong. Its founder, British citizen Jimmy Lai, has spent over 1,600 days in solitary confinement.
I was proud to receive a special edition from Reporters Without Borders honouring the 7 jailed journalists.
I was proud to receive a special edition from Reporters Without Borders honouring the 7 jailed journalists.
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Today marks four years since the last edition of Apple Daily - and its founder Jimmy Lai (a British national) is still in a Hong Kong prison.
Great to meet with Reporters Without Borders to receive a special copy they've produced marking the sad anniversary - very timely with today's China audit.
Great to meet with Reporters Without Borders to receive a special copy they've produced marking the sad anniversary - very timely with today's China audit.
June 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today marks four years since the last edition of Apple Daily - and its founder Jimmy Lai (a British national) is still in a Hong Kong prison.
Great to meet with Reporters Without Borders to receive a special copy they've produced marking the sad anniversary - very timely with today's China audit.
Great to meet with Reporters Without Borders to receive a special copy they've produced marking the sad anniversary - very timely with today's China audit.
Hugely proud of this initiative yesterday - The spirit of Apple Daily lives on!
What better sign of Apple Daily's enduring power than to see our revival edition being read in the #UK houses of parliament today, by MPs and peers of all political parties. The spirit of Apple Daily lives on! #HongKong #AppleDailyLivesOn #FreeJimmyLai
June 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Hugely proud of this initiative yesterday - The spirit of Apple Daily lives on!
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We join 20 orgs in a letter to PM Keir Starmer to urgently raise concerns about the ongoing detention of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, as well as the rapidly deteriorating health of his mother, Laila Soueif. #FreeAlaa
Read the letter ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Read the letter ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Urgent appeal for Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Laila Soueif - News & Events - English PEN
www.englishpen.org
May 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We join 20 orgs in a letter to PM Keir Starmer to urgently raise concerns about the ongoing detention of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, as well as the rapidly deteriorating health of his mother, Laila Soueif. #FreeAlaa
Read the letter ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Read the letter ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
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Really important that MPs hear from trans legal experts about what the Supreme Court ruling actually means for trans people, not what the papers are reporting.
Ask yours to attend 👇
Ask yours to attend 👇
Tomorrow, an opportunity for MPs to hear directly from trans+ legal experts. Please encourage your MP to attend, letting them know they can contact us for details info@transsolidarityalliance.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Really important that MPs hear from trans legal experts about what the Supreme Court ruling actually means for trans people, not what the papers are reporting.
Ask yours to attend 👇
Ask yours to attend 👇
Currently at the @rsf.org UK launch of the World Press Freedom Index.
The global state of press freedom is now classed as a “difficult situation” for the first time, and the fall in the economic indicator is shocking. The RSF Index provides a dire warning - as well as a guide to solutions.
The global state of press freedom is now classed as a “difficult situation” for the first time, and the fall in the economic indicator is shocking. The RSF Index provides a dire warning - as well as a guide to solutions.
May 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Currently at the @rsf.org UK launch of the World Press Freedom Index.
The global state of press freedom is now classed as a “difficult situation” for the first time, and the fall in the economic indicator is shocking. The RSF Index provides a dire warning - as well as a guide to solutions.
The global state of press freedom is now classed as a “difficult situation” for the first time, and the fall in the economic indicator is shocking. The RSF Index provides a dire warning - as well as a guide to solutions.
The RSF World Press Freedom is out now, with the UK coming in at 20th. This is a slight climb in rankings, but it comes amid a global decline.
Read and share the Index, and reach out for further information or comment!
#WorldPressFreedomDay
Read and share the Index, and reach out for further information or comment!
#WorldPressFreedomDay
🔴 #RSFIndex2025 |The 2025 RSF World Press Freedom Index highlights the media’s growing economic fragility. Among the five indicators used to evaluate the Index’s countries, the economic indicator saw the most significant decline.
#WPFD2025 #WorldPressFreedomDay
#WPFD2025 #WorldPressFreedomDay
World Press Freedom Index 2025
YouTube video by Reporters sans frontières
www.youtube.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The RSF World Press Freedom is out now, with the UK coming in at 20th. This is a slight climb in rankings, but it comes amid a global decline.
Read and share the Index, and reach out for further information or comment!
#WorldPressFreedomDay
Read and share the Index, and reach out for further information or comment!
#WorldPressFreedomDay
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Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned in Hong Kong since 2020. He now faces further charges which could result in a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Join the call to #FreeJimmyLai & send him a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites.
www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
Join the call to #FreeJimmyLai & send him a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites.
www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
PENWrites: Jimmy Lai - English PEN
Send a message of solidarity to imprisoned writer and activist Jimmy Lai.
www.englishpen.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned in Hong Kong since 2020. He now faces further charges which could result in a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Join the call to #FreeJimmyLai & send him a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites.
www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
Join the call to #FreeJimmyLai & send him a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites.
www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
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#Sudan: 2 years of war = 7 journalists killed + 17 media professionals imprisoned. One journalist and one media worker are still being held, while another has disappeared. The international community must force the warring parties to protect journalists.
News media silenced and at least seven journalists killed in Sudan’s two years of war
In the war between the regular army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary that has rocked Sudan for the past two years, at least seven journalists have been killed, one is missing, some fifteen me...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#Sudan: 2 years of war = 7 journalists killed + 17 media professionals imprisoned. One journalist and one media worker are still being held, while another has disappeared. The international community must force the warring parties to protect journalists.
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Six months after Alaa Abdel Fattah completed his prison sentence — and one month since #UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called #Egypt’s President Sisi to discuss his case — the British-Egyptian blogger remains in jail. RSF calls for his immediate and unconditional release 👇 rsf.org/en/freealaa-...
#FreeAlaa: Six months after completing his sentence, detained British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah must be freed without further delay
Six months after completing his prison sentence and almost one month into a dangerous hunger strike, British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah remains in arbitrary detention in Egypt. Reporters Witho...
rsf.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Six months after Alaa Abdel Fattah completed his prison sentence — and one month since #UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called #Egypt’s President Sisi to discuss his case — the British-Egyptian blogger remains in jail. RSF calls for his immediate and unconditional release 👇 rsf.org/en/freealaa-...
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#USA Trump administration has abruptly placed all VOA staff on administrative leave. RSF condemns this decision as departure from the U.S.'s historic role as a defender of free information & calls on the U.S. government to restore #VOA & urges Congress to take action against this unprecedented move
Trump administration decision to put all VOA personnel on administrative leave is the latest abandonment of US’s historic role in championing press freedom
The Trump administration has abruptly placed all Voice of America (VOA) personnel on administrative leave. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns this decision as a departure from the U.S.'s histori...
rsf.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#US: Following the Trump administration’s orders to dismantle the USAGM, RSF is sounding the alarm over the dangers facing USAGM staffers worldwide, including nine detained journalists. We call on the international diplomatic community to mobilise to ensure their safety and freedom.
US Agency for Global Media shutdown: RSF warns of the dangers facing nine journalists detained abroad
Following the Trump administration’s orders to dismantle the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is sounding the alarm over the risks facing USAGM staffers around the w...
rsf.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#US: Following the Trump administration’s orders to dismantle the USAGM, RSF is sounding the alarm over the dangers facing USAGM staffers worldwide, including nine detained journalists. We call on the international diplomatic community to mobilise to ensure their safety and freedom.
At a press conference in London with RSF in October 2024, Zamora's son warned of the risk of his father’s re-imprisonment - this has now come to pass. His case is emblematic of how a legal system can be weaponised and how publishers can be targeted to silence an entire news outlet.
🇬🇹 #Guatemala: Journalist Jose Rubén Zamora has been reimprisoned on the orders of an appeal court judge who was intimidated. RSF is angered by the continued weaponisation of the legal system and calls on the Supreme Court to rule immediately on his appeal. #FreeZamora rsf.org/en/guatemala...
Guatemala: RSF condemns court decision to reimprison journalist Jose Rubén Zamora and calls for an urgent ruling on his constitutional appeal
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is outraged by the decision on 10 March 2025 to enforce the court ruling ordering the return of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora to prison. The elPeriódico founder had been...
rsf.org
March 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
At a press conference in London with RSF in October 2024, Zamora's son warned of the risk of his father’s re-imprisonment - this has now come to pass. His case is emblematic of how a legal system can be weaponised and how publishers can be targeted to silence an entire news outlet.
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On the occasion of 8 March, RSF salutes the work of investigative journalist Hanin Gebran, released from the jails of the former Syrian dictatorship 3 months ago. RSF continues to investigate in order to identify her torturers and calls for justice for all persecuted female media professionals.
Hanin Gebran, released from al-Assad's jails in Syria: “The conditions in which journalists were held were horrible, and much worse for a woman”
Imprisoned for nearly six months in inhuman conditions until the fall of Bashar al-Assad on 8 December 2024, journalist Hanin Gibran has returned to writing in a transformed country, but where her ind...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
On the occasion of 8 March, RSF salutes the work of investigative journalist Hanin Gebran, released from the jails of the former Syrian dictatorship 3 months ago. RSF continues to investigate in order to identify her torturers and calls for justice for all persecuted female media professionals.
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RSF calls on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to meet Sebastien Lai, as a Hong Kong court announces further delays to his father Jimmy Lai’s trial.
rsf.org/en/freejimmy...
rsf.org/en/freejimmy...
#FreeJimmyLai : RSF calls on UK Prime Minister to meet son of detained publisher Jimmy Lai
The son of jailed British publisher Jimmy Lai has called for an urgent meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as a Hong Kong court set 28 July as a tentative date for closing arguments in his fa...
rsf.org
March 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
RSF calls on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to meet Sebastien Lai, as a Hong Kong court announces further delays to his father Jimmy Lai’s trial.
rsf.org/en/freejimmy...
rsf.org/en/freejimmy...
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We are very concerned by news that British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah began a hunger strike on 1 March after hearing news of his mother's hospitalisation. We call on Egypt to release Alaa immediately and unconditionally.
rsf.org/en/rsf-calls...
rsf.org/en/rsf-calls...
RSF calls on Egypt to release Alaa Abdel Fattah immediately
Egypt must free Alaa Abdel Fattah without further delay. More than 150 days after the British-Egyptian blogger completed his jail sentence, and as his mother lies close to death in a London hospital, ...
rsf.org
March 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We are very concerned by news that British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah began a hunger strike on 1 March after hearing news of his mother's hospitalisation. We call on Egypt to release Alaa immediately and unconditionally.
rsf.org/en/rsf-calls...
rsf.org/en/rsf-calls...
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RSF is at the UK Media Freedom Forum this week where there has been enormous support for jailed British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah. The message from delegates is clear: It is time to #FreeAlaa!
March 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
RSF is at the UK Media Freedom Forum this week where there has been enormous support for jailed British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah. The message from delegates is clear: It is time to #FreeAlaa!
Delighted to be here at the Media Freedom Forum today, with an impressive line up of speakers and some vital topics being raised. Follow along online 👇
And we’ve started - the inaugural UK media freedom forum -
hosted at @citystgeorges.bsky.social with @fpcthinktank.bsky.social : here
Is the live stream. I’ll be posting about the event though today and tomorrow www.youtube.com/live/2bisgy7...
hosted at @citystgeorges.bsky.social with @fpcthinktank.bsky.social : here
Is the live stream. I’ll be posting about the event though today and tomorrow www.youtube.com/live/2bisgy7...
UK Media Freedom Forum 4 March
YouTube video by ForeignPolicyCentre
www.youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Delighted to be here at the Media Freedom Forum today, with an impressive line up of speakers and some vital topics being raised. Follow along online 👇
This 👇 And not just more engagement, but the quality of engagement and genuine curiosity - it is a real breath of fresh air!
It's honestly bonkers how much more engagement I get here compared to what I was getting on X before I quit, and it's nearly entirely positive.
February 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This 👇 And not just more engagement, but the quality of engagement and genuine curiosity - it is a real breath of fresh air!
Laila has been on hunger strike for nearly 150 days in an effort to secure her son, Alaa's, freedom. She has now been hospitalised as a result.
Keir Starmer met with her just over a week ago and promised to do all he could to see her son freed: We need decisive action from the UK government now!
Keir Starmer met with her just over a week ago and promised to do all he could to see her son freed: We need decisive action from the UK government now!
We are deeply worried that Laila Soueif, mother of jailed British-Egyptian Alaa Abdel Fattah, is in hospital after almost 150 days of hunger strike. No mother should feel such a desperate act is her only recourse. We call on Egypt to immediately #FreeAlaa, & on the UK to step up diplomatic efforts.
February 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Laila has been on hunger strike for nearly 150 days in an effort to secure her son, Alaa's, freedom. She has now been hospitalised as a result.
Keir Starmer met with her just over a week ago and promised to do all he could to see her son freed: We need decisive action from the UK government now!
Keir Starmer met with her just over a week ago and promised to do all he could to see her son freed: We need decisive action from the UK government now!
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Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.
February 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.
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Useful piece by @stephenstroud.bsky.social on how to deal with vexatious litigation.
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/05/l...
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/05/l...
Lawfare: How Journalists and Activists Can Combat Vexatious Litigation
Lawyer Stephen Kinsella examines the exploitative use of legal threats, and offers advice on how not to play the game
bylinetimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Useful piece by @stephenstroud.bsky.social on how to deal with vexatious litigation.
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/05/l...
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/05/l...
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This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages
February 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages
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Spoke on BBC 5 Live this morning about Labour's policy of denying citizenship to refugees based on manner of entry. Long and short of it is that it will have no impact on channel crossings, it will violate international law, and it will leave people seeking safety in limbo and facing more fear.
February 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Spoke on BBC 5 Live this morning about Labour's policy of denying citizenship to refugees based on manner of entry. Long and short of it is that it will have no impact on channel crossings, it will violate international law, and it will leave people seeking safety in limbo and facing more fear.
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The change to the citizenship guidance had immediate effect - anyone who applies for citizenship as of 10 Feb is impacted.
That includes people who have had refugee status for several years, as well as those who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That includes people who have had refugee status for several years, as well as those who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The change to the citizenship guidance had immediate effect - anyone who applies for citizenship as of 10 Feb is impacted.
That includes people who have had refugee status for several years, as well as those who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That includes people who have had refugee status for several years, as well as those who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...