Birgitta Schuelke (@birschuelke) 's Twitter Profile
Birgitta Schuelke

@birschuelke

Investigative reporter @dwnews. Human rights, accountability & sexual abuse. Former Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine | @HRPressAwards🏆 | [email protected]

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OHCHR investigated recent allegations of grave rights violations perpetrated against individuals of the Tamil ethnicity in #SriLanka. The report found "credible specific accounts of security forces using various techniques of torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment."

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Do Russian forces train their drone pilots by targeting Ukrainian civilians? Important investigation by Julett Pineda, Esther Felden, Igor Burdyga, Nina Werkhäuser, and Mathias Boelinger as editor DW News. 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=kuTo94…

Do Russian forces train their drone pilots by targeting Ukrainian civilians? Important investigation by <a href="/julepineda/">Julett Pineda</a>, <a href="/EstherFelden/">Esther Felden</a>, <a href="/patr0scha/">Igor Burdyga</a>, Nina Werkhäuser, and <a href="/mare_porter/">Mathias Boelinger</a> as editor <a href="/dwnews/">DW News</a>. 

👉 youtube.com/watch?v=kuTo94…
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New footage from inside Sednaya Prison, filmed by IDA and sent to Haley Willis, shows the grim conditions within: numbered cells with debris, crumbling walls and ceilings, family members looking for loved ones sifting through paper records. nytimes.com/live/2024/12/0…

Charles Lister (@charles_lister) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If the international community wants to rescue some credibility with #Syria’s people, it should send specialists to #Sednaya Prison in #Damascus immediately — there are 100s, possibly 1000s of prisoners stuck 2-3 layers underground, behind electronic locks & concealed doors.

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Proud that our investigation "From torturers to peacekeepers" was picked as one of the best investigative stories of 2024 from #Bangladesh by the GIJN. You can see the documentary here 👇 👉youtube.com/watch?v=kjgBcc…

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Our latest: The German government has quietly defunded Zochrot and New Profile, two Israeli human rights organisations critical of the Israeli government’s policies and the Gaza war. The move appears to be a part of a larger pattern. p.dw.com/p/4ooxQ

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It's very sad that it appears Germany is continuing to move away from the idea of the universality of human rights and support for human rights defenders, as highlighted by its funding cuts to human rights organisations in Israel critical of government policy, following previous

It's very sad that it appears Germany is continuing to move away from the idea of the universality of human rights and support for human rights defenders, as highlighted by its funding cuts to human rights organisations in Israel critical of government policy, following previous